Author: American Political Science Association. Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Contains addresses, papers, and reports of business conducted at meetings of the Association.

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Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3525

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Author: Mark Wickham-Jones
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472123998
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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In 1950, the Committee on Political Parties of the American Political Science Association (APSA) published its much-anticipated report, Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System. Highly critical of the existing state of affairs, the report became extremely controversial: before publication, scholars attacked the committee’s draft and suggested it should be suppressed. When released it received a barrage of criticisms. Most academics concluded it was an ill-conceived and mistaken initiative. Mark Wickham-Jones provides the first full, archival-based assessment of the arguments within APSA about political parties and the 1950 report. He details the report’s failure to generate wider discussion between media, politicians, and the White House. He examines whether it was dominated by a dogmatic attachment to “party government,” and charts the relationship between behavioralists and institutionalists. He also discusses the political dimension to research during the McCarthyite years, and reflects on the nature of American political science in the years after 1945, the period in which behavioralism (which privileges the influence of individuals over institutions) became dominant. Detailing APSA’s most direct and significant intervention in the political process, Wickham-Jones makes an important contribution to debates that remain in the forefront of discussions about American politics.

Author: Thomas G. Lum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317734033
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized. Also discusses are the Communist Party's methods of social control and examines four groups-Party and government cadres, intellectuals, workers and peasants.

Author: Steven A. Shull
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315292831
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The book concludes with a discussion of the issues of accountability and policy leadership.

Author: Helene Dieck
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137519231
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Based on interviews with political decision-makers involved in post-Cold War case studies, this research reassesses the prevalent conclusion in the academic literature, according to which American public opinion has limited influence on military interventions, by including the level of commitment in the study of the decision-making process.

Author: National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Publisher:
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Category : Child psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 1136

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Author: Steven Greffenius
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315486326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The author’s argument ties this literature to a field that is often called the logic of inquiry. He criticizes an influential and deliberately analytical approach to the study of international conflict and show what can be gained by bringing more integrative or synthetic approaches to bear on problems in the field. The study started as an effort to work out some problems in international relations theory and it has remained that through eight years of writing and research. Still, the book is more than incidentally about the Middle East, and evidence from the region informs the argument made here. This evidence is of two kinds: traditional historical material from both primary and secondary sources, and data on events that have occurred during the course of both conflictual and cooperative exchanges between the actors there. The treatment focuses on the relationship between Egypt and Israel between 1967 and 1979, a period that saw their relations pass from the most intense antagonism to a reasonable degree of comity if not friendship.

Author: Robert W. Bailey
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791495604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Muhammad Yeahia Akhter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351782460
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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This title was first published in 2001. Rigging elections in favour of those in power has become a common practice in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yeahia Akhter focuses on the significance of elections in this ostensibly democratic state and portrays how electoral corruption has damaged the process of democratic consolidation. The author reveals the failure of both civilian and military governments to obtain democratic legitimacy and/or credibility through free and fair elections. The study examines the relatively democratic, but largely non-transparent nature of electioneering under non-partisan caretaker governments. The study provides a source of understanding of fair electoral process for the politicians and electoral officials in Bangladesh and other democratizing polities. It provides valuable information to the policy makers and practitioners in order to reform the electoral process in Bangladesh and in other similar countries.