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English
Political Science and International Relations
2003 - 2003
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Mission Accomplished? A Comparative Exploration of Conservatism in the United States and Canada
When analyzing institutions and events in the “New World,” observers from the “Old World” have rarely been motivated just by curiosity. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, both liberals and conservative...
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Political Ideology in the United States: Conservatism and Liberalism in the 1980s and 1990s
To describe the American public’s political ideology, previous research has used two methods of classification: self-designation and classification based on policy preferences. These two methods produce differ...
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Looking Back: The Emergence of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Canadian West and their Performance in Government
Throughout the 20th century, structural changes to the Canadian party system generally originated in the West. The western provinces have served as a stage for the emergence of third parties like the CCF and S...
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Party Membership on the Canadian Political Right: The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Parties
The upheaval on the Canadian political right in the past decade is well documented (Carty 2000; Woolstencroft 2001; Ellis 2001). Today, the two parties of the right, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive C...
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Local Government in Bangladesh: Evolution, Reorganization, Center-Local Relations and Critical Issues
In many countries local self-government (LSG) has been in existence for years. Jean Jacques Rousseau considered local government as the training ground for maintaining democratic culture while Alexis De Touque...
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Women and Conservative Parties in Canada and the United States
The mobilization of the second-wave women’s movement in North America in the 1970s was one of the phenomena that catalyzed the neo-conservative movement of the 1980s and beyond. Organized feminism contributed ...
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Decentralization and Local Government in Sri Lanka
The public debate over local government in Sri Lanka has been dominated by the ethnic conflict in the country. For the last 20 years efforts to change and reform local government in the country have focused on...
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Liberal Corporatism and Party Government
The progress of corporatist ideas since the late nineteenth century and the advent of authoritarian “corporatist” regimes in the twentieth century have been strongly fostered by critiques of parliamentary and ...
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The Economic Dimension: Fiscal Conservatism, Deficit Reduction, and Welfare Retrenchment in the United States
In the American context, it is important to understand that contemporary conservative fiscal policy represents the extension over time of certain class interests that have been championed by political parties ...
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A Paradoxical Miracle: The politics of Coalition Government and Social Concertation in Dutch Welfare Reform
Until the recent slowdown in the world economy, the Dutch economy has prospered uninterruptedly for practically two decades. As sustained economic growth, low inflation and unprecedented job creation concurred...
