The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition

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The Routledge Dictionary of Politics Now in its third edition, this dictionary is the essential guide to politics; its terminolo ...

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The Routledge Dictionary of Politics David Robertson THIRD EDITION ...

Third Edition First published 2002 by Europa Publications 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE (A member of Taylor & Francis ...

for Jessica, Oliver and Giles ...

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Preface This book has been in print for nearly twenty years; this is the third edition. After that time there is, perhaps, only ...

The changes since 1992 have been more incremental than the huge change, the end of the Cold War, that occurred between the first ...

does not facilitate communication or opinion formation. No one should really form a conviction about the federal prospects for E ...

public. Paul Kelly, my editor—though he is much grander in the world of publishing now than when he started work on this book—re ...

A Abortion Abortion is a politically controversial issue in many Western countries, mainly because it clashes with some Christia ...

Candidates for electoral office have increasingly come under pressure to take a public stand on abortion from pressure groups on ...

In practice, the reasons for justifying absolutism tend to be fear of the instability that might be caused by having more than o ...

Additional Member System The concern that systems ofproportional representationcan weaken the links ofrepresentative democracybe ...

solution which seemed possible for a time in the UK wasdevolution. A solution attempted underThatcherism, apart from generalpriv ...

Administrative E ́lites All countries need some sort of apolitical professional administrative group to carry out the policies p ...

make it very difficult to get a political decision implemented exactly as the government had intended. There are various systems ...

translated into public policy in the USA, where the executive has encouraged the hiring and advancement of minorities by requiri ...

The war seriously affected relations between the Soviet Union and the USA, making it impossible for President Jimmy Carter to ob ...