The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
The importance of the conceptual distinction is that it allows a distinction between the actual chance of someone in authority b ...
president of the Fifth Republic. Brought to power in 1958 as a man acceptable to the army, and to be trusted to maintain the sta ...
brilliant study which can still be read today for its insights into the operation of American political culture. It is quite com ...
outline legislation. The term, in any case, refers essentially to reform inside a system, rather than being a description of a s ...
Defensive Defence As popular fears of Soviet aggression against Western Europe declined during the 1980s, and the difficulty in ...
despite the fact that, at least in federal terms, Americans pay less tax than most citizens of Western democracies. At the same ...
for a court to hold that a certain measure of, for example, a minister of state taken under the authority of power-delegating le ...
by education, that is until the masses have lost theirfalse consciousness, democratic procedures would be worse than useless. Th ...
Gorbachev’spolicy ofglasnostopened the prospect of an alternative version ofdemocracyto the people of the Soviet Union, and when ...
during the presidency of the Democrat, Bill Clinton. Conversely when it comes to the presidency the very different nature of the ...
successful transitions, and secondly, how were such rapid transitions possible when there appeared to be little or no cultural e ...
term, to exploiting their primary products for the Western market. There is, after all, nothing fixed about the terms of trade i ...
quarter of the 20th century. There have always been many regulated industries, even in the most ideologicallylaissez-fairecapita ...
administrations, was sharply reversed in the early Reagan years. It is common to see the period afterGorbachevcame to power in t ...
Devolution Devolution is the process of transferring power from central government to a lower or regional level; among the reaso ...
religious creeds and so on all stem from the material conditions of life, and are not independent causative factors in society. ...
to contend with the rest of thepolitburo, have probably not managed to become dictators. Of other modern leaders, GeneralFrancow ...
was necessary to find a way of explaining how a true popular Marxist revolution could, nevertheless, be deemed to have occurred. ...
are necessary to ensure that no personal emotion or style should colour the message, that two diplomats of different nations hav ...
rule, and representative government can only very seldom be seen as fully applying the majority principle. Other arguments are e ...
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