The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
cost of enforcing them very high. In fact there are very few clear-cut cases of success attaching to any civil disobedience camp ...
political system, such as the ECJ, has difficulty in honestly claiming to be interpreting a fixed code. Efforts to produce pan-E ...
Even in societies which have good civil liberties records, certain groups— ethnic minorities, for example—may find that some law ...
public against government policy. All these are rights taken for granted in a liberal democracy. Naturally these two categories ...
Miranda v. Arizonajudgment) as long ago as 1966, studies have shown hundreds of police forces throughout the country ignoring th ...
senior officials belong to one or other of the factions in the Christian Democrat party; and even in Germany, government changes ...
Greek political tradition, who argue that the state creates civil society, rather than itself being appended to the latter. Clas ...
important reason—that quite simple distinctions drawn between occupations lead to categories that do seem to correlate highly wi ...
ability and security of income and wealth holdings are connected closely to matters such as educational chances, consumption and ...
The sheer number of cleavages within any society has a lot to do with whether it has amulti-party system, and thus is likely to ...
Australia or the Free Democrats in Germany are alliances they can form. In the case of Australia the National Party’s alliance w ...
contexts the main restriction of coalition formation is ideological: if any subset of actors can form a coalition only on specif ...
is seldom a good reason to form an over-large coalition. The other principal rule is of ‘ideological connectedness’. Parties wil ...
general election, and the French electorate, still in the mood that had re- elected him, returned a sufficient number of left-wi ...
did the political willingness of non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members to partici- pate. At this time, urgent arms control negotiations ...
war. Indeed, one consequence of the end of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe has been the series of conflicts in the former Yu ...
and need it badly enough, they will provide it even if only for themselves. But as itiscommon, everyone can enjoy it; so it is a ...
not overtly, to disclaim responsibility for the subsequent decisions arrived at. A semblance of collective responsibility is nee ...
How to organize agriculture in the new, supposedly communist, Soviet state had always been a difficult problem for two related ...
distribution rather than production: in any year a large proportion of produc- tion rots in the fields because it cannot be harv ...
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