Comparative legislatures (Contemporary comparative politics series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Blondel, Jean

Politics & Government

PRENTICE/HALL

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Comparative Government: An Introduction (2nd Edition)

Sociology

Routledge

Voters, parties and leaders: The social fabric of British politics (Pelican books)

Penguin

The power of the European Parliament has been steadily and visibly increasing in recent years. At the same time, however, the already low rate of turnout in European elections has declined. Based on extensive new data, this important study probes the foundations of participation, democracy, and legitimacy in the European Union, and examines the ways in which participation and democratic representation might be enhanced.

People and Parliament in the European Union: Participation, Democracy, and Legitimacy

History

Sinnott, Richard

Svensson, Palle

Europe

Clarendon Press

With an accessible, descriptive approach and an easy-to-use, three-part structure within each chapter, this is a flexible comparative text that is about 25% less expensive than its competitors.

Introduction to Comparative Government, Update Edition (5th Edition)

Kommers, Donald

Brown, Bernard E.

Fewsmith, Joseph

McAdams, A. James

CURTIS, Michael

McNelly, Theodore

Needler, Martin C.

Kanet, Roger E.

Reshetar, John S.

Wright, Stephen

Longman

Comparative government: A reader

Macmillan

This textbook provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the institutions and patterns of behaviour of the countries of the contemporary world. The various political systems are compared and contrasted both in general terms and according to their characteristic structures. today, the characteristics and the role of groups, and the effect of the communications media. It examines in depth the origins, bases, and structures of political parties, the type of party system and the overall role of parties in contemporary politics. It then goes on to examine the formal institutions, analyzing the role of constitutions, the extent of decentralization, the characteristics of legislatures and the structure and impact of executives and political leaders. A final section is devoted to the part played by bureaucracies, the military and the courts in political life and discusses the extent to which ordinary people participate directly in politics.

Comparative Government: A Reader

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Nature of Party Government examines relationships between governments and supporting parties on a comparative European basis. The book does so at the level of principles: there is a major conflict between governments, which should govern, and parties, which being representative, wish to shape the way governments operate. The book studies relationships empirically as well: it shows that they occur on three planes, appointments, policy-making and patronage and assesses the extent of two-way influence, from parties to governments and from governments to parties.

The Nature of Party Government: A Comparative European Perspective

Philosophy

This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries.  Using two groups of case studies, African Presidential Republics examines the variations between presidential republics within Africa since decolonisation. Jean Blondel divides the ten countries studied into those in which presidents had always been elected regularly, namely Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal and Tanzania, and those in which there was irregularity in the appointment of presidents, namely Benin, Uganda, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. The case studies analyse the manner in which presidential republics have manifested themselves in Africa, exploring the argument that the presidential republic is one of the key institutional arrangements likely to lead societies towards development.  African Presidential Republics will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, comparative politics and political leadership.

African Presidential Republics (African Governance)

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Thinking Politically

This book gives some insight into the profession of political science and about 'thinking politically'. It shows how thinking politically contributes, in a significant fashion, to answering those questions that, from curiosity or necessity, mankind has incessantly raised and wished to solve.

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