How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle Ages. Collaborative chapters, mostly co-written by experts on each kingdom, cover topics ranging from courts, military networks and public finance; office, justice and the men of the church; to political representation, petitioning, cultural conceptions of political society; and the role of those excluded from formal involvement in politics. The result is a richly detailed and innovative comparison of the nature of government and political life, seen from the point of view of how the king ruled his kingdom, but bringing to bear the methods of social, cultural and economic history to understand the underlying armature of royal power.
The One, the Few and the Many: Research Strategies in Comparative Politics
比較政治的議題與途徑
Democratic elections are designed to create unequal outcomes: for some to win, others have to lose. This book examines the consequences of this inequality for the legitimacy of democratic political institutions and systems.
"Based on data from democracies across the globe, this book examines how election losers and their supporters respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing"--Provided by publisher.
Following the Tory defeat , the Liberals under prime ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau were increasingly isolated in Western Canada . By the late Trudeau period , the Liberals were governing with the support of Ontario and ...
Combining thematic and country approaches to show students what comparative politics is really about, The Good Society organizes itself around a key question-why are some countries better than others at improving their citizens' lives?
Chinua Achebe , a Nigerian author , cited a William Butler Yeats poem to describe Nigeria and Nigerians during this period : Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer ; Things fall apart ; the centre ...
Ed . Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington . Glenview , IL : Scott , Foresman / Little , Brown , 1987 . 3–32 . ... Kingston , Paul , and lan S. Spears eds . States - Within - States : Incipient Political Entities in the Post - Cold War ...
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American Government: Comparative Approach