Explores cities as the origin of revolutionary politics, where social and political issues are always at the surface, using examples from such cities as New York City and Mumbai to examine how they can be better ecologically reorganized.
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"The Presidentialization of Politics shows how democratic political systems are coming to operate according to an essentially presidential logic, irrespective of their formal constitutional make-up. The logic of presidentialization is revealed in the growing power and autonomy o…
The Czech Republic: a nation of velvet
by Fawn, Rick
fromPostcommunist states and nations
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Type: Book
"Throughout the twentieth century Czechoslovakia has captured the international imagination. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 produced the enduring symbol of Munich as naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prag…
The limits of electoral reform
by Bowler, Shaun, Donovan, Todd
fromComparative politics series
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Type: Book
"Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the rules, and citizen engagement with politics can be renewed. Yet a look at the record o…
