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9780801826825 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $28.00
Product Description: The theory of coparative federalism asserts that federations require a second chamber for the representation of regional interests in central law-making. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the contribution of second chambers in parliamentary federations to this task...read more
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9780820466132 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 2004, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: The theory of coparative federalism asserts that federations require a second chamber for the representation of regional interests in central law-making.
9789052012117 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 2004, cover price $77.95
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9780742549715 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 30, 2005, cover price $120.00
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9780742549722 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 30, 2005, cover price $56.00
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9780801884740 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 17, 2006, cover price $49.00
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9780801884757 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 24, 2006, cover price $21.95
Product Description: This book offers a complete rethink of the institutional limits and possibilities of deliberative democracy and legitimacy. Examining several unresolved problems at the core of deliberative democratic theory, this volume will be vital reading for deliberative democratic theorists and public policy makers...read more
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9780199291113 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 10, 2006, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book offers a complete rethink of the institutional limits and possibilities of deliberative democracy and legitimacy.
Product Description: Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future. Crossroads provides a unique comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of accountability and public voice, civil liberties, rule of law, and anticorruption and transparency...read more
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9780742558007 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 30, 2006, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future.
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9780742558014 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 30, 2006, cover price $53.00
Product Description: Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future. Crossroads provides a unique comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of accountability and public voice, civil liberties, rule of law, and anticorruption and transparency...read more
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9780742558984 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 28, 2007, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future.
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9780742558991 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 30, 2007, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future.
Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, Michael Mezey maintains that they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them. This raises the question of the extent to which representative government approximates democracy-a question that turns on the relationship between representatives and those whom they represent. Mezey reviews the literature on the meaning of representation and its relationship to issues of citizen control. In the empirical sections that follow, he draws on data from the United States Congress and from legislatures outside the United States to discuss the extent to which the composition of a legislature reflects the demography of its nation. The author also examines a legislature's various political and economic interests and the extent to which representatives are responsive to specific requests for assistance from their constituents and to constituent opinions on public policy questions. He further looks at the effect that interest groups, political parties, and election systems have on the relationship between representatives and their constituents. Finally, Mezey addresses the criticisms that have been leveled against representative institutions: that they are slow to act, inefficient and uninformed when they do act, that they are too inclined to do what is popular rather than what is necessary and, conversely, that their members are too removed from the opinions of their constituents and therefore unfaithful to their democratic obligation to respond to the wishes of those whom they represent. Rich in thoughtful analysis, Representative Democracy incorporates normative, empirical and comparative perspectives on representation. It is perfectly suited for use in an upper-level course on the legislative process or Congress.
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9780742547698 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 30, 2008, cover price $94.00
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9780742547704 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 30, 2008, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, Michael Mezey maintains that they are not.
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9780202363608, titled "British & French Parliaments in Comparative Perspective" | Aldine De Gruyter, April 2, 2010, cover price $35.95
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9781442205475 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 30, 2010, cover price $99.00
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9781421410135 | New edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 21, 2013), cover price $28.00
Product Description: How has the process of political representation changed in the era of globalization? The representation of interests is at the heart of democracy, but how is it that some interests secure a strong voice, while others do not? While each person has multiple interests linked to different dimensions of his or her identity, much of the existing academic literature assumes that interests are given prior to politics by a person's socioeconomic, institutional, or cultural situation...read more
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9781107037762 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 7, 2014, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: How has the process of political representation changed in the era of globalization?
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9781107611894 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 7, 2014, cover price $34.99
Product Description: Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks like in a deeply divided society and to understand the conditions that deliberative democracies could realistically emerge in difficult circumstance...read more
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9781137357809 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 24, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks like in a deeply divided society and to understand the conditions that deliberative democracies could realistically emerge in difficult circumstances
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9780812246513 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 13, 2014, cover price $79.95
Product Description: In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis with Elin Bjarnegård exploring how male networks are maintained and expanded, seeking to improve our understanding of the rationale underlying male dominance in politics...read more
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9780230369269 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 18, 2013, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis with Elin Bjarnegård exploring how male networks are maintained and expanded, seeking to improve our understanding of the rationale underlying male dominance in politics.
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9781137545312 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 18, 2013, cover price $31.00
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9781421419589 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 22, 2016, cover price $49.95
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