This volume identifies and assesses the relationship between parliaments and governments, exploring especially the degree of specialisation within the legislature and its effect on the capacity of the legislature to scrutinise and influence government.
This study examines the governance of British America prior to the American Revolution. Examining the career of George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax and First Lord of the Board of Trade and Plantations (1716-1771), it explores colonial planners and policymakers during the po…
This work, innovatively interpreting Japanese politics as a 'benign elite democracy', demonstrates the Supreme Court's vital contribution to that political structure. Hiroshi Itoh presents a study of judicial decision making under Japan's Constitution, focusing on the document's…
Near Eastern empires and indigenous elites : rethinking ancient empire -- Judah on the eve of Persian rule -- Persian practices in Transeuphratene : the wider context of Nehemiah's rule -- Territories and populations : dealing with diversity -- Regions closer to Yehud under Pers…
Provides a detailed comparative analysis of the multiple mechanisms by which French and English monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle Ages.
"Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. This essent…
"American government evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth century. The changing character of these institutions is a critical part of the history of the United States. This engaging survey focuses on the evolution of public policy and its relationship to the con…
This text reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. It concentrates on the administration of the empire using evidence from historians.
