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The Atlantic Imperial Constitution
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its Atlantic colonies under the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, circa 1603-1642. In doing so, it engages directly with a very large body of existing... more...
Bog-Standard Britain
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,... more...
The Council of Europe
Springer 2006; US$ 159.00The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly took on the special task of monitoring the new Eastern member states and also the elder member states, for their adherence to the commitments they had entered into. This study examines the Council's legal bases, organisation and duties in this regard, basing the work on many legal acts and documents. more...
The Council of Europe
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00The book provides a succinct and much needed introduction to the Council of Europe from its foundation through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. Founded in 1949 within a month of NATO, the Council of Europe was the hub of political debate about integrating... more...
Dismembering the Body Politic
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 48.00An account of the emergence of local partisan politics in the century after the English Civil War. more...
European Contexts for English Republicanism
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century English thinkers and political events. Bringing together a range of fresh and original essays by British and European scholars in the field of early modern... more...
From Elections to Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00This 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... more...
Hungary
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Gábor Bátonyi analyzes Hungary's changing role and geopolitical position in Central Europe in the light of long-term historical developments. The book contains chapters on the country's economics, politics, society and the transition from Communist state to democracy. more...









