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Remote and thinly populated, Maine was long insulated from many of the demographic and economic trends of states to the south. Maine Politics and Government traces recent changes in the state's system as agriculture, manufacturing, and maritime trades have ceded dominance to high-tech businesses, extensive commercial development, and an expanding governmental sector

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Part One Introduction -- 1 Political Change in Authoritarian Systems -- Part Two Political Reform and Economic Crisis in Mexico -- 2 Political Liberalization in an Authoritarian Regime: Mexico, 1976-1985 -- 3 Mexico After the Oil Boom: PRI Management of the Political Impact of National Disillusionment -- 4 Can the PRI Be Reformed? Decentralizing Candidate Selection -- Part Three Recent Performance in the Political System -- 5 Changing Patterns of Electoral Participation and Official Party Support in Mexico -- 6 Democracy and Power in Mexico: The Meaning of Conflict in the 1979, 1982, and 1985 Federal Elections -- 7 Elections and Political Culture in Mexico -- 8 The Significance of Recent Events for the Mexican Political System -- Part Four Perspectives on the Political Opposition -- 9 "The Opposition" in Mexico: Always a Bridesmaid, Never Yet the Bride -- 10 Opposition in Mexico: A Comparison of Leadership -- 11 The PAN, the Private Sector, and the Future of the Mexican Opposition -- 12 The PSUM: The Unification Process on the Mexican Left, 1981-1985 -- About the Contributors -- Index.

A look at the changes that have allowed and encouraged women to run for office in Florida and the work that still needs to be done.

A look at the changes that have allowed and encouraged women to run for office in Florida and the work that still needs to be done.

A look at the changes that have allowed and encouraged women to run for office in Florida and the work that still needs to be done.

This article is the first in a new series of Editor's Review Column's to be published in Policy Futures in Education. The primary and modest purpose of this innovation for the journal is expand the number of texts that are reviewed in it. However, in doing so, a broader intention, which attempts to engage with and encourage interdisciplinary work in the field of education, as well as draw other from outside the field to it, is revealed. A large amount of excellent and important work is published in a range of disciplines which educationalists are not often introduced to and, equally, the educational resonances and ramifications of this work often go unexplored. Each column will be guided by a theme which draws together several texts that are considered to offer insights which might productively inform educational theory and debate. The objective of the column is not to exhaustively relay the content of each text and display its full implicit or potential educational reach; it is rather to shine a light on these texts so that they might be examined further. We hope that readers of the journal will find this column of interest and that new readers from other disciplines might be drawn to the work of the journal through it.

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Public Administration is positioned and interacts with political level which conceives laws and decisions and on the other hand, citizens, who are directly affected by these laws and decisions. Consequently, the administration is likely to help politicians withexpertise and also take the initiative to draft laws and decisions; Implement laws passed by Parliament; Oversee the implementation of laws and regulations; To assess the effect of the implementation of laws and the need for change. In other words, the public administration is an essential element and the strongest pillar that provides stability in a country. The paper aims to treat the relationship between the political level and the administrative apparatus and the interaction between them. For this reason, different schools of thought regarding the relationship between politics and administration are mentioned including established practices in different contexts. Special focus is given to the current situation in Kosovo unfolding legal basis and practices created during the interaction between the political and administrative level.

In 1996, Belgian politics centered around three major issues: the jobs contract, the 1997 budget and political fallout of the Dutroux affair (the four girls killed by a pedophile ring).During the first months of the year, Prime Minister Dehaene attempted to win support for a comprehensive jobs contract, but the draft agreement was turned down by the Socialist trade union militants. Nevertheless, the measures contained in the agreement were later implemented by the cabinet, without the consent of the employers and organized labor. Together with adjustments made to the social security system and implementation of budgetary measures needed to reach the conditions set by the EU for joining the Economic and Monetary Union, the jobs contract was implemented by means of special powers. The cabinet obtained these special powers from Parliament before the summer recess. After the summer, as a result ofthe Dutroux alfair, the cabinet dealt with legal reform, in the process trying to quell tensions arisen among the law enforcement agencies.

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Although COVID-19 is still very much around, we have reached the stage of the pandemic where we begin to look back and analyze our response to this crisis. It is, however, a monumental task to piece information together from thousands upon thousands of published articles about the pandemic from different academic disciplines. Gadarian, Goodman, and Pepinsky's book, Pandemic Politics, is an authoritative guide that walks us through the American pandemic response, using state-of-the-art multiwave panel data. The argument of the book tells a compelling, coherent, and, ultimately, depressing story about how America's four "preexisting conditions"—political polarization, Donald Trump, a troubled health care system, and systemic inequalities—set the stage for a perfect storm in which the politics dominated public health, culminating in a disastrous pandemic response. In this review article, I situate the book's argument in a broader literature on politicization of science, the importance of populism and anti-intellectualism, misinformation, and trust, filling in some of the considerations the authors omitted from their analyses.

"Cases in Comparative Politics is the best-selling case book for the course because it uses a consistent framework to illustrate major concepts in comparative politics. Featuring coverage of the 13 most-taught countries, Cases combines foundational knowledge with the most ruthlessly up-to-date coverage to foster easier comparison across countries"--

Advances in Ecopolitics series presents a collection of environmental alternatives worthy of consideration in light of the ongoing economic downturn which has accompanied the latest incarnation of unsustainable practices. Each publication discusses a significant element in the environmental theory which now represents an important aspect of sustainable living. The latest volume, Global Ecological Politics, examines the range of environmental campaigns that are occurring across the planet. It showcases a selection of case studies on grassroots initiatives and activism in areas such as green eco

In Embracing Watershed Politics, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, unavoidable, and in some ways even desirable elements of decision making about water and watersheds. With decades of combined study of water management in the United States, they focus on the many contending interests and communities found in America's watersheds, the fundamental dimensions of decision making, and the impacts of science, complexity, and uncertainty on watershed management.