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An interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars discusses our ailing participatory democracy and offers suggestions for enhancing public debate of social and political issues.

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Scott Thomas offers a complete statistical and descriptive guide to the fifty American presidential elections that were held between 1789 and 1984. The Pursuit of the White House incorporates more than 450 charts as well as concise summaries supplying comprehensive data on all aspects of presidential elections.

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Zimmerman examines the use of the recall by United States voters to remove elected state and local officials from office.

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An examination and evaluation of 16 types of referenda, offering model provisions to make them more effective. The author analyzes a number of general initiative and protest referendum campaigns in order to develop conclusions as to their desirability and the need for reform.

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This is a historical and analytical reference work on the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of counsel's assistance. It contains an account of the historical development of the right to counsel in England and America and an analysis of all aspects and details of the relevant US Supreme Court's doctrine.

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Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group--the urban master artisans--whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist

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A troubling look at why, for a variety of reasons, congressional power on issues of war and peace has diminished over time, resulting in an abdication of responsibility as the executive branch led the United States into a war with Iraq in 2003.

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A work that looks at the role the Constitution of the Republic of China has played in the development of Taiwan since 1949 and its potential influence on the People's Republic of China.

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Part of the Praeger Series in Political Economy, this volume assembles prominent political scientists, sociologists, economists, historians, anthropologists, theologians, and journalists to examine the intricacies of the ground-breaking 1984 campaign for president by Jesse Jackson.

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The Soviet elite has undergone two major transformations in the twentieth century: Stalin's purges and replacement of old elite by Soviet trained proletarian modernizing managers;

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Laird accomplishes two major goals: he provides an analytical, blow-by-blow description of the collapse of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership, and he explores the legacy left by the experiment in communism by the Soviet Union.

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Explores the nature and structure of power in the Soviet party-state. Examines what type of regime it actually is, its intellectual and political origins, the various changes it has undergone, and the changes in world conditions that have affected the party states vitality.

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This study of the tensions of military clientage focuses on Czechoslovakia to explore the ambiguous position of the military forces of East European countries and to show how the military's dual role as instrument of both national defense and the Soviet-controlled socialist alliance" fundamentally affects the interaction of military and political e

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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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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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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.

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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.