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Provides the definitive study of voting behaviour in the 2016 Irish election

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In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This was related to the Cold War and the demonization of socialism. This text studies how American novels and films of this era reflect the loss of the utopian imagination.

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This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.

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This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.

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Presents a challenge to realist theories of crisis bargaining. This book tests the proposition that normative standards of behavior influence state actions in security-related conflicts. It examines the construction of bilateral norms as the settlements of the security-related disputes and the effects these settlements have.

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Tracing the interplay between political philosophy, policymaking, and party politics from Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush, the work looks beyond the typical focus on personality and political tactics to the underlying ideological significance of presidential philosophies and actions.

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Challenges the notion that the eighteenth-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of twentieth-century governance. This book demostrates the continuing relevance of these principles by questioning the dominant scholarship on the legislative veto.

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Talks about five fascinating prime ministers - Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard - and how they view Australia. This book explores the end of the idea of British Australia, and how successive prime ministers have attempted to assert personal, and often competing, visions of Australian nationalism in its place.

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The central governments of the member states play a crucial role in the transformation of EU public policy into reality. This book examines the way in which the Greek, French and British central governments perform this role. -- .

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The "Power of the Pen" is a powerful civics and historical document used as a framework for leaders. It captures a time in the history of America from reconstruction to present on how leaders must do courageous penmanship in writing new laws of change that will benefit the people. This book shows that the bridge toward relationships is important and how to utilize them to be an agent of change.

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In an era of unprecedented budget problems, can Congress establish legislative procedures to facilitate making politically difficult budget decisions

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Until recently, historians and political analysts have tended to dismiss French revolutionary syndicalism as a movement whose influence was either negative or ineffectual.

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A study of the long-standing, yet ever-changing, relationship between Israel and Iran, drawing on the experience and first-hand accounts of those individuals involved in Israeli-Iranian relations before and after the 1979 arrival of Khomeini in Tehran.

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This volume aims to deliver a better understanding of the period of Jimmy Carter's presidency of the United States, and its development. Deadlock with Congress, special interests, and ultimately, the Iran hostage crisis, led to the defeat of many of Carter's programmes and to his loss of office.