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Political Science and International Relations
English
2003 - 2003
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Consociational Democracy, Class Conflict, and the New Corporatism
“Consociational democracy” or “Konkordanzdemokratie” has been described as the response of political elites in certain countries to the challenge of strong sub-cultural segmentation (chapter 1, above; also Iijpha...
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Pakistan: Experiments in Local Governance
Prior to relinquishing their imperial obligations, the British partitioned India along religious lines by creating a new nation in the subcontinent. Pakistan (an acronym created from the names of the territori...
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A Search for Balance: Canada and the United Nations
In early 2002, Canada’s newest Foreign Affairs Minister, Bill Graham, paid a call to Washington, D.C. to meet with United States’ Secretary of State Colin Powell. The next day, he visited the United Nations wh...
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Conservatism and Religion in the United States
In modern politics conservatism and religion have been considered natural bedfellows by many an enlightened political scientist. This point of view explains the overriding interest of European as well as Ameri...
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Evolution of Local Self-Government in India
Scholars of Indian local self-government maintain that autonomous local governance units have existed in India throughout its long history. Mahabharat,Kautilya’s Arthashastra (4th century B.C.) and pre-Buddhist J...
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The Changing Ideological Landscape in North America: Evidence from the World Values Surveys (1981–2000)
There is a longstanding tradition of identifying the differences and similarities of the political cultures of Canada and the United States, and comparisons of their respective ideological landscapes have been...
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Is there, or can there be, a ‘European Society’?
Curiously enough, it is not easy to find social scientists who seem to know — and are ready to explain — what a ‘society’ is. Yet it seems possible to put together a number of constituent notions that most aut...
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Societal Governance
For a few years now, governance as a concept has been a catchword in many corners of social science disciplines. Apparently there is a need for such a concept, although a bandwagon effect cannot be denied eith...
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The Canadian Citizenship Regime in a Conservative Era
In the post-1945 decades the Canadian citizenship regime was constructed by a Liberal government, one that was in power for all but eight years of the four decades between 1944 and 1984, and which dominated th...
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Populism, Conservatism and the New Right in English Canada: Blending Appeals, Constructing Constituencies and Reformulating Democracy
Over the past fifteen years, Canadians have seen particularly complicated contests for right of centre voters. Since 1993, these contests in English Canada have taken their dynamics and dramas primarily from a...
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Toward a New Model of Coalition Politics in the Russian State Duma
Article 10 of the 1993 Russian Constitution provides that “State power in the Russian Federation is exercised on the basis of the separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers. Bodies of legislative...
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Finding the “There” There: Membership and Organization of the Republican Party in the United States
The title of this study is based on the famous characterization of Oakland, California, by Gertrude Stein: “There’s no there, there.” Similarly, the major parties of the United States are, by comparative stand...
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Introduction
To generalize about the nature of politics and political institutions in the vast and complex area as the Third World is an exercise in futility. The countries of the area are different from one another in the...
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Recent Developments and Debates in Local Governments in India
Local self-government has been a recurring theme in the conceptualization and the realization of democracy in India. While Gandhi and several socialists leaders visualized a decentralized India with a self-reg...
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Nepal in Crisis: Democratization and the Failure of Local Government
Local government in Nepal is composed of 75 districts, 58 municipalities, and 3,913 villages. Municipalities and villages are further subdivided into wards. Each village is divided into 9 wards, while each mun...
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Conservative Think Tanks in the United States and Canada
An analysis of the contemporary (neo)-conservative landscape in North America would be incomplete without a contribution on the role of think tanks — and a wide spectrum of conservative think tanks in particul...
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Concertation and the Structure of Corporatist Networks
The political structure of a number of advanced capitalist economies, according to widely held — but often vague — hypotheses, is characterized by the emergence of “corporatism” or “neo-corporatism”. Speculati...
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The Promises Kept by Our Rivals — New Budgetary Strategies of the Conservatives in Canada
Between 1984 and 1993, when the Progressive Conservatives were in office in Ottawa, they initiated a breakthrough in Canadian budgetary politics both with regard to the policy-making process and with regard to...
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Public Support for Unemployment Benefits: An Empirical Approach in Modelling Contexts
Contemporary welfare states confront the continuous challenges posed by the social changes brought about by the opening of international markets, globalisation and the advent of post-industrial society. Among ...
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The Methodology of the Fuzzy-Set Logic
A fuzzy set is a set with elements whose membership grades can have any real value between 0 and 1. This ‘grading capacity’ of fuzzy sets is a major advancement compared to its predecessor ‘crisp sets’ which a...
