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Politics of John F. Kennedy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 1)
Av Edmund Ions
Inbunden, 2009
1566 kr
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Drawing on material from many sources, including official and semi-official records, contemporary historical writing and reliable journals, this volume illustrates why John F. Kennedy's Presidency was one of the most eventful and significant in American history. Through this volume the student can …
Anglo-American Democracy
Av Malcolm Shaw
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This book describes the main characteristics of the British and American political systems. Whilst short, it is integrally comparative with the main emphasis on concepts. The result is a systematic and sustained Anglo-American political analysis.
Labour in American Politics (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 3)
Av Vivian Vale
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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The author analyzes the considerable legislation enacted between 1945 and 1970 and its effect on labour-management-public relations. He looks at their relevance for Britain today, and offers the most complete survey yet available of the operations of American labour as a pressure group.
Social Principles and the Democratic State (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 4)
Av S. Benn, R. S. Peters
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are porblems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like …
Authority and Democracy
Av April Carter
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This book debates the nature and functions of authority: it examines how far our inherited images of authority derive from an aristocratic and traditional order and considers which models of authority are still relevant in a democratic and rationalist society. It discusses the characteristics of …
Direct Action and Liberal Democracy
Av April Carter
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This study focuses primarily on the nature of "direct action" in relation to contemporary movements, and considers the role of direct action methods in past campaigns for constitutional and social rights. Boycotts, sit-ins, obstructions, civil disobedience and other unconstitutional forms of …
Bureaucracy and Democracy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 7)
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Although a powerful, independent bureaucracy poses a threat to democracy, it is indispensable to its proper functioning. This book provides an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy and is essential reading for students of sociology, political science …
Annihilation and Utopia (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 8)
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Originally published in 1966. The main purpose of this book is not philosophical speculation, but to draw the obvious conclusions from political and historical facts about the prospects and methods of human political survival. The central theme is developed in the context of problems which cause …
Law, Socialism and Democracy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 9)
Av Q Paul
Inbunden, 2009
1521 kr
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This book explores the political and legal institutions necessary for a democratic socialism in advanced industrial societies. It argues that a democratic socialist society needs a firm framework of public law, and a formal constitution. Populist conceptions of direct democracy and informal justice …
Study of Comparative Government and Politics
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Originally published in 1957, the first part of the book discusses the general problems of approach, classification, typology and terminology, and examines ancillary fields of study and the methods of teaching comparative government. Part Two is concerned with studies of particular areas, …
On Justifying Democracy (Routledge Library Editions:Political Science Volume 11)
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This book analyzes and assesses theories of democracy emanating from studies in a variety of disciplines, and proposes answers to a wide range of questions in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law and democratic theory. Taken together, these answers constitute the basis for a theory …
Political Representation and Elections in Britain
Av Peter Pulzer
Inbunden, 2009
1521 kr
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Originally published in 1972, this edition includes expanded sections on class and voting and elites and participation in modern democracy. Many popular misconceptions - about the militancy of party activists, the relations between MPs and constituents, the role of TV and the fairness of the …
Government and the Governed
Av Douglas Wass
Inbunden, 2009
765 kr
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This book, originally published in 1983 examines how effectively in Britain central government is equipped to secure efficiency and responsiveness and argues that as a result of shifts in the balance of power between the executive arm of government in Whitehall and the legislature in Parliament, …
Political Science
An Outline For The Intending Student of Government, Politics and Political Science
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are problems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like …
Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 15)
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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This study defines the relationship between humanism and liberalism by comparing the two Victorian figures who were most concerned with the preservation of humanistic values in a free and democratic society: Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill. The book sets apart Arnold and Mill from their …
History of Political Thought in the 16th Century
Av J. W. Allen
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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This presentation of the main phases and features of political thought in the sixteenth century is based on an exhaustive study of contemporary writings in Latin, English, French, German and Italian. The book is divided into four parts. The first part deals with the new thought of Protestantism. …
Locke's Two Treatises of Government (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 17)
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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This volume guides the reader through a detailed examination of the text to an understanding of Locke’s political ideas in relation to his writings on philosophy, education, religion and economics and the influence these ideas had upon eighteenth-century political theorists. The author shows how …
Greek Political Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 18)
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato in the last thirty years. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the left, and a prophet of Socialism, he has lately been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. In this book Plato appears as himself – a …
Nonconformist Conscience (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 19)
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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The ‘Nonconformist conscience’ was a major force in late Victorian and Edwardian politics. The well-attended chapels of England and Wales bred a race of Christian politicians who tried to exert a moral influence on public affairs. This book analyses the political impact of the Nonconformists at the …
Political Judgement
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Originally published in 1983. One of the basic capacities of man as a political being is his faculty of judgement. Yet for all the books on concepts like freedom, equality and authority, surprisingly little attention has been given to this topic in the tradition of Western political thought. What …
Short History of Electoral Systems in Western Europe (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 22)
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This book provides a concise and accessible account of the historical experience of European parliaments – why different electoral systems were adopted, how they have functioned, how they have affected the development of political parties, and in what respects they have been found over time to be …
Greek State
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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This book charts the development and character of the political forms that grew out of the age of Greek immigration into the Aegean, and establishes the forms which in the course of history were decisive. It also examines the impact which the various forms of state exerted on Greek civilization and …
Political Repression in 19th Century Europe
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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Originally published in 1983. The nineteenth century was a time of great economic, social and political change. As Europe modernized, previously ignorant and apathetic elements in the population began to demand political freedoms. There was pressure also for a freer press, for the rights of …
Ancestral Constitution (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 25)
Inbunden, 2009
765 kr
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Originally published in 1953. The return to the "ancestral constitution" was a major issue in Athenian politics in the period of the revolution of 411 and 404 B.C. This book examines the scope and import of the question of the "ancestral constitution". Chapter 1 is a study of Kleitophon’s Rider nd …
Life of Niccolò Machiavelli (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 26)
Inbunden, 2009
3063 kr
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This biography of Macchiavelli is widely regarded as Ridolfi’s masterpiece and is based on much material drawn from private and public archives. It presents a fresh interpretation of Macchiavelli’s career and writings and here, for example the dating of the composition of such famous works as the …
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 28)
Av F. P. Lock
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is one of the major texts in the western intellectual tradition. This book describes Burke’s political and intellectual world, stressing the importance of the idea of ‘property’ in Burke’s thought. It then focuses more closely on Burke’s …
Fantasy of Reason (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 29)
Av Don Locke
Inbunden, 2009
997 kr
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This ‘philosophical biography’ gives an account of Godwin’s life and thought, and by setting his thoughts in the context of his life, brings the two into juxtaposition. It relates Godwin’s views on politics and morality, education and religion, freedom and society, to the events of his life, …
Political and Social Philosophy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 30)
Av D. O'Mahony
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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This volume consists of many of Lacordaire’s writings on social and political issues, many of which have been out of print for a long time and some of which appeared in this volume, when originally published, for the time in English. The central theme of the book is that the Christian solution of …
Methodism and Politics in British Society 1750-1850 (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 31)
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Originally published in 1984, this book charts the political and social consequences of Methodist expansion in the first century of its existence. While the relationship between Methodism and politics is the central subject of the book a number of other important themes are also developed. The …
Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth Century Government (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 33)
Inbunden, 2009
3155 kr
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The main theme of this book is the complex relationship between government servants and the world around them and this is explored in a number of ways. The essays include studies of the people who played an important part in the development of 19th century government: there is a chapter on the …
