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New edition, thoroughly revised by S.S. Clark. ; x, (1) 12-279 p.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chronology -- 1 The Constitution and History -- 2 The Communist Experience and Legacy -- 3 Democratic Transition and Consolidation -- 4 Constitution Making and Consensus Building -- 5 Parliament and Democratic Politics -- 6 The Executive: Dual or Fragmented? -- 7 Government and the Mechanisms of Representation -- 8 The Active Constitution in Practice -- 9 Conclusion: the Polish Constitution as a Framework for Democracy -- Bibliography -- Index.

Providing a full analysis of the political systems of 18 countries, this book covers the political parties, elections and party systems, as well as the structures of government at local, regional, national and European Union levels.

Introduction: Loss, mourning, memory -- Specters of the sixties -- French postmodern -- Le Débat, year one : the generation of 1980 -- The return of the prophet : Bourdieu, Zola, and the Dreyfusist legacy -- Desperately seeking Marianne : the uses of the republic -- Memory wars -- Old wine, new skins : race, laïcité, Frenchness -- Conclusion

For Palestinians, governance depends on where you live and who you are. Efforts to fix this situation often end up only entrenching it further.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- list of figures -- preface -- acknowledgements -- part 1 the political and electoral context -- 1 British political culture: an exceptional polity? -- 1.1 Key characteristics -- 1.2 Other significant features -- 1.3 The European and global contexts -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 The evolving constitution -- 2.1 Key characteristics -- 2.2 Views of the constitution -- 2.3 Pressures for change -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 The electoral system -- 3.1 The current system -- 3.2 Criteria of assessment -- 3.3 The debate about the British electoral system -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Voting participation and behaviour -- 4.1 Two-party politics? -- 4.2 Voter participation -- 4.3 Factors in voting -- 4.4 Influences in voting -- 4.5 Conclusion -- part 2 sources of power, pressure and opinion -- 5 The political parties -- 5.1 Origins and development -- 5.2 Functions and activity -- 5.3 Principles and organisation -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 Pressure groups -- 6.1 Some definitions -- 6.2 Classification of groups -- 6.3 Main functions -- 6.4 Organisation and power -- 6.5 Channels of influence -- 6.6 Involvement in policy and decision making -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7 The media -- 7.1 The current situation -- 7.2 The problems and challenges of the press -- 7.3 The problems and challenges of the electronic media -- 7.4 The media and politics -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 Public opinion -- 8.1 The formation of opinion -- 8.2 The sources of opinion -- 8.3 The effects of opinion -- 8.4 Public opinion in context -- 8.5 Conclusion -- part 3 Parliament -- 9 The Monarchy -- 9.1 Powers and functions -- 9.2 Financing the Monarchy -- 9.3 The Monarchy, the media and the public -- 9.4 Conclusion -- 10 The House of Lords -- 10.1 Origins and historical development -- 10.2 Composition -- 10.3 Powers and functions.

Introduction : judging the state in contemporary China / Susanne Brandtstädter -- "Battles over green space" : land disputes, rights activism, and emergent publics in urban China / Li Zhang -- Making personal life political : political trajectories of everyday conversations in China's online communities / Cuiming Pang -- Marginalizing the law : corporate social responsibility, worker hotlines and the shifting grounds of rights consciousness in contemporary China / Ellen Hertz and Marylène Lieber -- Judging publics and contested exclusion : the moral economy of citizenship in China / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Policy documents : imaginations of the state and the struggle for justice in a Chinese land-losing village / Chi-pui Cheung -- What rights cannot do : the making and unmaking of public goods in the Yunnanese countryside / Andrea Pia -- Public Buddhist philosophy : civic engagement and discursive space among a religious group in Shanghai / Weishan Huang -- Concealing and revealing senses of justice in rural China /Hans Steinmüller -- Afterword / Isabelle Thireau

The Spanish model revisited / Richard Gunther -- The selection of an electoral system : less consensus, more heresthetics / Jose Ramon Montero and Ignacio Lago -- Interparty consensus and partisanship in Spain's transition to democracy / Bonnie N. Field -- Radicalism without representation : on the character of social movements in the Spanish transition to democracy / Pablo Sanchez Leon -- Children of a lesser god : the political and the pastoral action of the Spanish Catholic Church / Gregorio Alonso -- Salvation by betrayal : the left and the Spanish nation / Alejandro Quiroga -- The Basque experience of the transition to democracy / Diego Muro -- The "pacto de olvido" / Carsten Humlabaek -- Cinema and television in the transition / Paul Julian Smith -- The role of the EEC in the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek transitions / Jose M. Magone -- Democratizing Spain : lessons for international democratic promotion / Omar Encarnacion.