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Ireland's international reputation has suffered periodic fluctuation, from model case of rapid development, to exemplar of political and economic mismanagement. This book argues that both perspectives overlook more important and persistent features of Irish political life. -- .

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The ten chapters in this volume focus on how Congress in the twenty-first century can once again fulfil its proper functions of representation, deliberation, legislation, and oversight. The authors offer a series of practical reforms that would maintain, rather than replace, the constitutional separation of powers that has served the nation well for more than 200 years.

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Politics in America are polarized and trivialized. This title identifies and defends core principles of personal and political morality that various citizens can share. It shows that recognizing such shared principles can make substantial political argument possible and help replace contempt with mutual respect.

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Exploring the factors that have transformed the Israeli political centre this work gives a picture of current and future trends in Israeli politics, focusing on the movement of the Israeli body politic to the right-of-centre and the growing hold of Likud.

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A biography of James Kirke Paulding, one of the first American writers to devote his career to describing America and Americans, and to social commentary and social criticism. Paulding's cause was the defence of the republic as a way of life, an economic and social system and an ethical code.

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Morgan provides a comprehensive, consistent, and unified analysis of Madison's political philosophy using Madison's views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the focus.

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Japan's policymaking is of considerable worldwide interest. Quansheng Zhao examines political institutions, social environments, and political cultures, and presents four captivating case studies on aspects of Sino-Japanese relations.

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This volume in the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson contains the two important parliamentary documents he prepared during his lifelong study of the subject. Jefferson compiled the first document, called the Parliamentary Pocket-Book," while he was president of the Senate by virtue of his position as Vice- President of the United Stat

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Born in 1918, Appiah actively engaged in the politics of his country from colonial domination, through independence in 1957, and for the next 25 years of political, military, and economic unrest. He died in July 1990.

The memoirs of Joe Appiah cover a momentous sixty year period of African colonialism and Ghanian independence.

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Joseph Chamberlain's political career was immense, embracing the campaign for state education, municipal reform, opposition to Irish home rule, social reform, foreign and colonial affairs, and imperial preference.

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This biographical companion covers Stalin's life and political career from 1879 to 1953; in particular it describes the more personal side of the man who orchestrated the Great Terror of the 1930s and constructed the Soviet monolith.

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Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in seventeenth-century revolts. Th

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This volume is a comprehensive comparative study of the development of systems for naming judges in two nations, over a period of three centuries. This book places in normative and historical context discussions about how best to recruit judges, and it explores shifts in priorities for judicial offices and their implications.

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Congressional oversight activity has increased dramatically since the early 1970s. Congressional committees now spend more of their time holding hearings to review the activities of federal agencies, and committee staff members are busy collecting information about what goes on during program implementation.

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This short study was written in 1925 as part of the course of lectures on Plato's Republic.

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Written from the premise that the key to understanding modern government is understanding its information policies, this book will be of great value to both students and scholars of American government, civil liberties, constitutional government, and public administration.

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An analysis of why states must act if collective bargaining rights for public employees are to be protected is presented together with an analysis of the political and economic reasons for inconsistent treatment of public sector employees collective bargaining rights.

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Peter Smith has written a comprehensive and in-depth study of the structure and more important of the transformation of the national political elite in twentieth-century Mexico. In doing so, he analyzes the long-run impact of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 on the composition of the country's ruling elite. Included in his focus are such issues as th

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This volume examines when and how Latinas run for political office at the national and state level. Contributors further this analysis by examining the ways Latinas are covered in the news, how they are compared to other political candidates, and how they act once in the legislature.

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