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The Christian Democratic Party and the Prospects for Democratization in El Salvador
One of the major issues in the debate over the prospects for democracy in El Salvador is the nature and role of the Christian Democratic Party. To...
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The Institutionalisation of Policy Consultation in Japan: Public Advisory Bodies
Samuel P. Huntington has defined institutionalisation as a ‘process by which organisations and processes acquire value and stability’. That process...
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A Modern Democracy
Britain today is probably less democratic than it was in the 1930s. The British constitution since then has barely developed at all, although society...
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Conclusions: The Politics of Economic Transformation
Mexican government officials sometimes label as catastrofistas those doomsayers who see unacceptable futures fraught with violence or increasing...
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Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics
In November 1987 Nakasone Yasuhiro was replaced as prime minister of Japan by Takeshita Noboru, a politician of the same party that had ruled without...
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Multipartism
Multipartism as a basic feature of the party systems of European democracies is an undeniable fact, but there is serious disagreement among scholars...
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Hegemony and State Softness: Some Variations in Elite Responses
Until recently, American political science has been notable for its scant attention to the part played by the state in the policy process. Thus...
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Performance of the Electoral System in Recent Canadian and British Elections: Advancing the Case for Electoral Reform
Canada, India, New Zealand and of course the U.K. itself are among the relatively few democratic countries of the world which continue to employ the...
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Power Politics and the United Nations
The growth of international political institutions has been one of the more notable features of the twentieth-century diplomatic scene. Yet the...
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Introduction: Democracy and Political Philosophy
The purpose of this book is to re-examine some of the pivotal concepts considered essential to, or frequently associated with, democracy, and the way...
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Political Culture: Some Perennial Questions Reopened
Mary McAuley’s is an important and compelling chapter, one which may well arouse irritation or dismay, but one of genuine radicalism which should...
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The scissors crisis in public finance
The late 1970s saw the beginnings of a “scissors crisis” in public finance, i.e., a growing divergence between the expansion of government revenues...
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Zur vergleichenden Analyse politischer Systemkrisen in demokratischen Industriegesellschaften: Skizze eines Forschungsplans
Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, im Rahmen eines neuen krisentheoretischen Ansatzes, der andernorts bereits in Abgrenzung zur Literatur (Zimmermann...
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Politische Leistungen, politische Unterstützung und politische Stabilität: Ein Simulationsmodell zur Analyse langfristiger politischer Entwicklungen
Die zunehmende Verfügbarkeit quantitativer Indikatoren über demographische, ökonomische, soziale und politische Entwicklungen auf globaler,...
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Introduction
As this book came about through collaboration between a number of German and British academics, it is appropriate to introduce the theme of ‘party...
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The Political Cultures
Political culture may be defined as the ‘attitudinal and behavioural matrix within which the political system is located’, or in other words as the...
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„Produktive Umwege“ zu eigenen Fragestellungen
Buridan neigte bekanntlich dazu, seine Beispiele entweder mit Sokrates, Platon oder mit „asinus“ zu illustrieren. Ihm wird jene mit „Buridans Esel“...
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Governments
Country membership in an intergovernmental organization is given in one of two locations. Appendix C lists membership in the United Nations and its...
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Analysen
Vor kurzer Zeit wurde das letzte, fast schon vergessene Relikt ständischer, korporativer Verfassung, die spanische Cortes, ohne große Gegenwehr...