Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories. This comparative volume brings together both strands and u…
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'Governing by Virtue' asks how a monarchy with no police force, no standing army, and little bureaucracy could rule England in the second half of the 16th century. Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, but her chief manager Lord Burghley depended heavily on the virtue and honou…
"Governing by Virtue" asks how a monarchy with no police force, no standing army, and little bureaucracy could rule England in the second half of the 16th century. Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, but her chief manager Lord Burghley depended heavily on the virtue and honou…
'Governing by Virtue' asks how a monarchy with no police force, no standing army, and little bureaucracy could rule England in the second half of the 16th century. Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, but her chief manager Lord Burghley depended heavily on the virtue and honou…
"Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect, " but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the …
