Book Review: Britain and Ireland: Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain, 1918–1945
In: Political studies review, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 139-139
ISSN: 1478-9302
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In: Political studies review, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 139-139
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 705-707
ISSN: 1465-3923
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 241-270
ISSN: 0952-1895
Examines funding strategies that protect agencies and programs from impact of fiscal restraint by excluding them from normal budgeting processes; considers positive effects in ensuring that critical long-run interests receive appropriate attention, and negative effects, including erosion of democratic influence in policy-making; US, Canada, and Great Britain.
In: International journal of intelligence and counterintelligence, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 601-613
ISSN: 0885-0607
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 101-108
ISSN: 0032-3179
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 75, S. 487-507
ISSN: 0033-3298
Argues that resistance to government evaluation of managerial changes in the public sector could be overcome if the Auditor General and the National Audit Office exercised their constitutional right to evaluate reforms; Great Britain.
In: Défense nationale: problèmes politiques, économiques, scientifiques, militaires, Band 50, S. 75-87
ISSN: 0035-1075, 0336-1489
Analyzes and compares recent "white papers" on national defense policy for France, Germany, and Great Britain. Threat analysis, atomic warfare strategy, military strategy, European defense, defense commitments, force structure and organization, and finance.
This work is a detailed study of the political relations between England and the papacy from 1858 to 1861, the decisive years for the unification of Italy. It demonstrates that two successive English governments, first the Tories under Derby and Malmesbury, then the Liberals under Palmerston and Russell, variously used the moral, diplomatic and naval power of Great Britain to contribute to the overthrow of the eleven-hundred-year old papal monarchy in central Italy. A study in diplomatic history, the book shows how British diplomacy concerning the Papal Question proceeds in full conjunction with many factors religious, political, economic, social, naval, intellectual, personal in contributing to the overthrow of the pope as monarch in central Italy
Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers relax and avoid those constraints. There is no single principle or theory which explains the authority of precedent but rather a number of arguments which raise rebuttable presumptions in favour of precedent-following. This book examines the force and the limitations of these arguments and shows that although the principal requirement of the doctrine of precedent is that courts respect earlier judicial decisions on materially identical facts, the doctrine also requires courts to depart from such decisions when following them would perpetuate legal error or injustice. Not only do judicial precedents not 'bind' judges in the classical-positivist sense, but, were they to do so, they would be ill suited to common-law decision-making. Combining historical inquiry and philosophical analysis, this book will assist anyone seeking to understand how precedent operates as a common-law doctrine
In: The empire and its critics 4
In: International affairs, Band 86, Heft 5, S. 1129-1147
ISSN: 1468-2346
Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in the light of circumstances today, when the relationship between market and society has again become a focus of intense political and scientific debate. It demonstrates the relevance of Polanyi's ideas to various theoretical traditions in the social sciences and provides perspectives on topics such as money, risk, work and the family. The case studies present materials from around the world, including Britain, China, India, Jamaica and Nigeria. Like Polanyi's original work, the critical engagement of these essays will be of interest to a wide readership
In: Cold war history, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 241-268
ISSN: 1743-7962
"The definitive account of one of the most desperately heroic missions launched during World War Two. In March 1942, at perhaps the darkest moment of World War Two for the Allies, Britain launched a nearly suicidal raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire, which the German Navy was using as a dry dock for ship repairs (the Tirpitz, the sister ship of the Bismarck, was scheduled for repairs there). Destroying it would hinder the U-boat campaign and force German ships to return hundreds of miles to home ports. The plan was for British commandos to attack the port and simultaneously to use an explosives-laden, American-built ship dating from World War One, the Campbelltown, as a gigantic torpedo, launching it into the docks. The first element of Operation Chariot went disastrously. The second proved spectacularly successful. The detonation of the Campbellown put the St. Nazaire dry dock out of commission for the war's duration. To be published on the 80th anniversary, Giles Whittell's book will offer the definitive account of the raid, which was undertaken by Royal Navy and British commandos, most of whom were killed or captured. The Greatest Raid provides a gripping and authoritative narrative of one of the most daring military operations ever undertaken."--