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"First published in Great Britain 2005"--T.p. verso.

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Sir Henry Taylor's classic treatise The Statesman, originally published in 1836, is the first modern book to be devoted to the subject of public administration.

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Sir Henry Taylor's classic treatise The Statesman, originally published in 1836, is the first modern book to be devoted to the subject of public administration.

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Conal Condren examines the criteria for judging both works of political theory and texts associated with related academic genres. He discusses the rhetoric surrounding terms like originality," "influence," and "coherence," the value of these terms as criteria of textual assessment, and their use in charting the history of texts. Originally publish

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The question of what causes war has concerned statesmen since the time of Thucydides. This title utilizes data on militarized interstate disputes from 1816 to 2001 to identify the factors that increase the probability that a crisis will escalate to war.

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Shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.

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This text provides an analysis of American intervention in China from World War II, to the rapprochement Richard Nixon began in 1972. It traces the origins of the American interest in China, based on Roosevelt's hope to use China as a partner to preserve peace in East Asia.

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Argues that liberalism is based on what the author terms 'four cornerstones': economic justice, educational equity, voting rights, and media fairness, and that liberal America has declined as these cornerstones have been undermined.

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A nuanced, behind-the-scenes narrative of President Obama's first term that explores what "Obamaism" truly is, by NBC's award-winning Chief White House Correspondent.

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How do presidents lead If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion This title examines and challenges the dominant paradigm of presidential leadership. It contends that presidents cannot create opportunities for change by persuading others to support their policies.

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The object of this book is to examine the existing forms of local government in England and Wales, and the different types of local authority, their purposes and operation, in order to understand what influences the development of the governmental system, and through it, the daily lives of the people of those regions.

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In this second edition, three years after the first, the story of Eastern Europes dramatic struggles to achieve properly functioning democracies and the rule of law rages on, warranting deeper analysis and substantial updating.

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Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics.

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Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics.

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Through a reading of major publications, this book recreates a postwar mood sympathetic to radical social change, thus casting doubt on the standard view of the communists' rise to power. It also raises questions about the relationship between war and radical social change, the communist takeover of the region, and the role of intellectuals.

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The changes in third world countries have been the subject of intense published debate in the Soviet Union - debate on Marxist concepts of the stages of history, on theories of economic development and revolutionary strategy, and on foreign policy. Jerry F. Hough explores the breakup of the orthodox Stalinist position on these issues and the evolution of free-swinging discussion about them.

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Examines the environment and events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. The author argues that the mass movement, which climaxed in Beijing, can be understood only if attention is given to the external environment that provided both opportunities and constraints to the participants.

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The Struggle over Human Rights uses empirical evidence to prove that pressures placed by the NIEO on the international system shaped the human rights doctrine of the Carter administration. Carters strategy relegated economic rights to a basic needs approach and sharpened the definition of international human rights to serve the US world order.

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This book identifies the criteria for successful constitutions in both theory and practice using the research and methodology of Vincent Ostrom.