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Theory of Parties and The Electoral System

by Richard Katz Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
09/2007
ISBN:
9780801887598
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Pb+ 168 pages

Political parties and elections are the mainsprings of modern democracy. In this classic volume, Richard S. Katz explores the...

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Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia: Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective, 1933-1975

by J Stephen Hoadley Transaction Publishers
Pub Date:
05/2012
ISBN:
9781412847360
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Pb+ 319 pages

By exploring the role of military officers and chronicling the sequences of events, Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia offers...

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Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies

by Alfred Stepan, Juan J Linz and Yogendra Yadav Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
01/2011
ISBN:
9780801897245
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Pb+ 336 pages

Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries....

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Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems

by Harry C. Katz; Owen Darbishire An ILR Press Book
Pub Date:
08/2002
ISBN:
9780801488115
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Pb+ 352 pages

Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan,...

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Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics Law and Economics of the GATT and the WTO

by John H Barton, Judith Goldstein and Timothy E Josling Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
02/2006
ISBN:
9780691124506
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Hb+ 256 pages

The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral...

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Emerging From Communism: Lessons from Russia, China, and Eastern Europe

by Peter Boone, Stanislaw Gomulka, Richard Layard The MIT Press
Pub Date:
09/1998
ISBN:
9780262024471
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Hbk 252 pages

'Eastern Europe, Russia, and China emerged from communism with very different records of progress and pain. To understand why,...

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Groupthink in Government: A Study of Small Groups and Policy Failure

by Paul 'tHart Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
09/1994
ISBN:
9780801848902
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Pbk 344 pages

Why do groups of talented and experienced individuals make disastrously bad collective judgments, such as the Kennedy administration's...

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe

by Stephen Haggard and Robert E Kaufman Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
08/2008
ISBN:
9780691135960
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Pb+ 502 pages

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard...

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Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives, vol. 1 (POD)

by edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
08/1997
ISBN:
9780801857942
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Pbk 384 pages

The global trend that Samuel P. Huntington has dubbed the "third wave" of democratization has seen more than 60 countries experience...

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Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Regional Challenges, vol. 2

by edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
08/1997
ISBN:
9780801857959
Format:
Pbk 392 pages

The global trend that Samuel P. Huntington has dubbed the "third wave" of democratization has seen more than 60 countries experience...

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Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict

by Stephen Van Evera Cornell University Press
Pub Date:
03/2001
ISBN:
9780801482953
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Pb+ 288 pages

What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions,...

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Religious Politics and Secular States: Egypt, India, and the United States

by Scott W Hibbard Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
09/2010
ISBN:
9780801896699
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Hb+ 328 pages

This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain...

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Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World

by Eric Helleiner (Editor); Andreas Pickel (Editor) Cornell University Press
Pub Date:
12/2004
ISBN:
9780801489662
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Pb+ 280 pages

Is economic nationalism an outdated phenomenon in light of globalization? Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World demonstrates...

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Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security and Society in an Era of Change

by Douglas W Blum Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
03/2008
ISBN:
9780801888427
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Hbk 408 pages

Russia is a battered giant, struggling to rebuild its power and identity in an era of globalization. Several of the essays in...

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Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America

by Mark Ungar Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
11/2010
ISBN:
9780801898020
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Hb+ 416 pages

Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard -- the region's homicide rate is the world's highest. This crisis...

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