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This book offers a look at how campaigns actually work, from the framing of issues to media coverage to voters' decisions.

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This is the story of one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history, of how a powerful media pack, a vicious commentariat and some of those within her own party contrived to bring down Australia's first woman prime minister.

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After the fall of communism in Russia, most observers took for granted that the structures of the new democratic state would be effective agents of the popular will. This book examines governance in post-Soviet Russia in a comparative context, investigating the roots, characteristics, and consequences of the crisis as a whole.

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Presents an analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia (1968-76), and Poland (1980-89). This book also explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and state institutions, and modified the political practices of these regimes.

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The articles in this volume appeared first in the leading jounial World Politics. The essayists' common concern with the autonomy of the political " in the politics of developing countries contributes to the analytical unity of the volume. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to aga

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Provides a comparative-historical analysis of the state and revolution in the 20th century. Examining the competing theories of the state and revolution in classical social theory, this book provides an analysis of the nature and dynamics of major socialist revolutions, including the Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, and Nicaraguan revolutions.

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Although the state's role in society has clearly expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given little weight in modern political theories. To bring theory more into line with reality, Stepan proposes a new model of state autonomy which he shows to be particularly well suited for understanding politic

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In the 1920s Turkey and Iran faced political upheaval as both states attempted to find their routes to modernity. This study observes this process by examining the measures adopted by the political regimes of the late Ottomans, Ataturk and Reza Shah, as well as by exploring how different social levels contributed to the drive for modernity.

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This book documents a worrisome gap between principles and practice in democratic governance. The State of Access is a comparative, cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which democratic institutions fail or succeed to create the equal opportunities that they have promised to deliver to the people they serve.

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Sandler contends that the impact of the nation in foreign policy is not synonymous with that of the State. As such, the work is of concern to all students of Israeli politics and foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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This book engages broadly with the tradition of state theory, arguing that contemporary state theory must account for multiple sites of power. The authors build on and expand traditional state theory offering tools to rethink how we analyze the state.

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This essential party primer includes new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to Americas political parties and the effects of new media and campaign finance laws, and the implications of all these things on future policymaking and electoral prospects moving forward.

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This essential party primer includes new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to Americas political parties and the effects of new media and campaign finance laws, and the implications of all these things on future policymaking and electoral prospects moving forward.

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The years of Tory Goverment have revealed the shortcomings of a free-market economy: a big shift of economic power to the employers and a sharp rise in in equality.

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The number one bestseller on the hardback list for more than six months, The State We're In is the most explosive analysis of British society to have been published for over thirty years. It is now updated for the paperback edition.