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This volume includes an analysis by Karen O'Connor, professor of government, The American University, of more than 25 key issues facing women today. With women taking on more active political roles, this encyclopedia will serve as a reference work about the past, present, and future of women and politics in America.

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The issue of strict neutrality and the schools is addressed in Chapter 5, and an overview of the Court's development of the concept of separation of church and state is presented in Chapter 6.

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"This book was originally conceived as a tribute to Thomas Erskine May to celebrate the 200th anniversity of his birth..." --Preface, Page v.

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What's happened to the longstanding traditions of civility and decorum within the world's greatest deliberative body While the Senate hasn't yet become as rancorous as the House, over the past three decades it has grown noticeably less collegial.

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This work examines ethnoregional conflicts in seven ethnoregions. It explains what factors determine electoral support for ethnoregional parties and why there appears to be an inverse relationship between electoral success and political success among many ethnoregional parties.

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Although the score of countries comprising Russia's "near abroad" and "far abroad" are behaving with variably increasing independence in their domestic and foreign policies, Russia continues to regard them as remaining within the same core-periphery sphere of influence formerly exerted by the Soviet Union.

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This fascinating compilation of extracts from proposals for uniting Europe, drawn up over the centuries, shows that the idea of European integration is far older than is often imagined.

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An assessment of the situation of Europe and German unification at the beginning of the 1990s. The author identifies fundamental issues and describes various organizations that form Germany's "European" framework.

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An assessment of the situation of Europe and German unification at the beginning of the 1990s. The author identifies fundamental issues and describes various organizations that form Germany's "European" framework.

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This book analyses the role of EU institutions in the area of European internal security -- .

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This book examines how well the American political systems performs by using multiple criteria, including the level of trust the public has towards the institutions of government, the abilities of the institutions to make good public policy, the extent to which policy is responsive to public opinion, and the extent to which public policy is fair.

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This book examines how well the American political systems performs by using multiple criteria, including the level of trust the public has towards the institutions of government, the abilities of the institutions to make good public policy, the extent to which policy is responsive to public opinion, and the extent to which public policy is fair.

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This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives.

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agencies - but it's also one of the least-known among the general public. This book describes why the office is so important and why both scholars and citizens should know more about what it does.

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Demonstrates the significance of expertise as a potential source of change in American politics and policy, and of each city's electoral and administrative organizations as mediating institutions within a national system of urban political economies. This book draws on original research and quantitative analysis of electoral data.

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A systematic examination of the democratization process in China.

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This book adopts a critical approach to the emergence and function of civil society organizations in Africa, with a particular focus on Malawi. Foucauldian and critical international political economy frameworks are used to interpret data gathered from ethnographic research in Malawi.

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The issue of fair representation has taken center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned as a result of the 2000 census. Using U.S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for a fair allocation of congressional seats.