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State Formation in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1700by Michael J. Braddick
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00On the basis of a wide-ranging synthesis of work in diverse fields of English, British and colonial history, this book makes a novel argument about the modernisation of the seventeenth-century English state. It also focuses on the role of class and gender interests in the state's development. more...
Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth Iby A. N. McLaren; Quentin Skinner; Lorraine Daston; Dorothy Ross; James Tully
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 46.00In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLaren looks at how Elizabeth I managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition. She examines the political context of Elizabeth's reign and demonstrates the continuities between it and the outbreak of the English civil war. more...
Hungaryby Terry Cox; Andy Furlong
Frank Cass 1995; US$ 52.95The aim of this book is to review various aspects of the process of democratic transition in Hungary over the period of its first post-Communist, freely elected Parliament between 1990 and 1994. more...
From Elections to Democracyby Susan Rose-Ackerman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 29.00This study documents the weaknesses of public oversight and participation in policymaking in Hungary and Poland. It discusses five alternative routes to accountability including European Union oversight, constitutional institutions such as presidents and courts, devolution to lower-level governments, the use of neo-corporatist bodies, and open-ended participation rights. more...
The Politics of the Excluded c. 1500-1850by Tim Harris
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 99.95This collection of essays sheds light on the politics of those people who are normally thought of as being outside the political nation. Topics deal with riots, rumours, libels, seditious words, public opinion, and the structures of local government. more...
The Politics of Pact-Makingby John W. Schiemann
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 90.00Contributes to the literature on democratic transitions and focuses on institutional bargaining. In this book the Hungarian case is contrasted with those of Poland, South Africa and China to explore the contours of what bargaining strategies affect outcomes. more...
OECD e-Government Studies Hungaryby OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 56.00E-Government in Hungary has been driven by the overarching national goal to integrate Hungary in the European Union. Strong political leadership has lead to results in a short space of time, including the online availability of 20 core e-government services benchmarked by the EU, as well as other transactional services. The review draws several important lessons from the Hungarian experience: Hungary has moved forward by adopting international good practices, rather than re-inventing the wheel. In order to continue progress, however, Hungary needs to focus on the bigger picture which means using e-government to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector, i.e. better government, not more government. This review... more...
Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, 3by Terence Hartley
Continuum International Publishing 1995; US$ 170.00This volume covers the proceedings of Elizabeth I's Parliaments. It includes: journals by individual members; separate accounts of speeches intended for, or delivered, in Parliament; and other proceedings relating to single issues. more...
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government, Volume 3by G. R. Elton
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 50.00This volume continues the publication of Professor Elton's collected papers on topics in the history of Tudor and Stuart England. more...
Bog-Standard Britainby Quentin Letts
Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 11.65No one would attack equality, would they? Quentin Letts just might. Not the notion of equality itself but the way it has become an industry for lobbyists, class warriors and New Labour's ageing Trots. Egalitarianism is a mania for today's policymakers and the soupy-brained halfwits we contrive to elect to public office. Appalled by free thinking, these equality junkies want to crush all individualism in our nation of once indignant eccentrics. Equality has been defiled by the ethnic grievance gang, by the harpies of feminist orthodoxy, by those risk-averse jackboots of town-hall bureaucracy with their quotas and creeds. Fair damsel Liberty has been whored by the best practice brigade, by the proceduralists of multinational corporatism in... more...









