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Relies on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. This title places contemporary party politics in the four examined countries in historical and comparative perspectives.

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Its existence is a reality of everyday life, yet the notion of the state is not well understood. Sicker does not consider this as just another academic question: The citizen's moral obligation to obey the state is intimately related to the legitimacy of the state's authority and the latter depends largely on its sources.

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These essayists examine the future of the Commonwealth and Canada's role as an independent nation participating fully in both the Commonwealth and in the wider association of the United Nations.

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This new book examines the House of Lords in both its Parliamentary and its judicial capacity.

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The Imperiled Presidency: Presidential Leadership in the 21st Century calls for a dramatic re-evaluation of the American president's role within the separation of powers system. In contrast with claims by academics, pundits, media, and members of Congress, Cal Mackenzie offers...

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The first full length biography of Australia's most enigmatic prime minister.

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Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity. He finds that the book is not primarily a prescriptive work that restates the ideals of Christian humanism or warns against radical idealism, but an exploration of a particular method of political study

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Seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations.

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In the first comprehensive study of the Office of Management and Budget Larry Berman traces its evolution from a once impartial and objective presidential staff agency to The Office of Meddling and Bumbling (TOMB), as it was known by the end of the Nixon administration. In doing so he analyzes both its established role and the subsequent changes in

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Why would sovereigns ever grant political or economic liberty to their subjects Under what conditions would rational rulers who possess ultimate authority and who seek to maximize power and wealth ever give up any of that authority This book answers these questions, investigating both why sovereign powers might liberalize and when.

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This work provides the first in-depth study of the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution from the larger perspective of the development of the electoral college.

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A guide to the Constitution which attempts to provide the political terminology for modern political studies. An introductory survey of concepts relating to the constitutional framework leads on to a glossary in which basic terminology is defined in clear terms. Aimed at A level students and first year Undergraduates in Politics and Government.

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Challenges the notion that the eighteenth-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of twentieth-century governance. This book demostrates the continuing relevance of these principles by questioning the dominant scholarship on the legislative veto.

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This volume aims to deliver a better understanding of the period of Jimmy Carter's presidency of the United States, and its development. Deadlock with Congress, special interests, and ultimately, the Iran hostage crisis, led to the defeat of many of Carter's programmes and to his loss of office.

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What is the price of federalism Does it result in governmental interconnections that are too complex Does it create overlapping responsibilities Does it perpetuate social inequalities Does it stifle economic growth To answer these questions, Paul Peterson sets forth two theories of federalism: functional and legislative.

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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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The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality provides a compelling contribution to the discussion of the separation of church and state. Showing how the principles of freedom and equality on which separation is based have a religious origin, this book provides a vivi...

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The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality provides a compelling contribution to the discussion of the separation of church and state. Showing how the principles of freedom and equality on which separation is based have a religious origin, this book provides a vivid alternative to the construction of public reason in John Rawls's Political Liberalism.