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"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "List of Abbreviations" -- "List of Tables" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "1.1 Identifying the American Exception" -- "1.2 Questioning the American Exception" -- "1.3 Studying the American Exception" -- "1.4 Agenda" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2: "A Shining City"? Perspectives on the American Exception" -- "2.1 Americans and the American Exception" -- "2.1.1 Americans on "America"" -- "2.1.2 Taking Exception" -- "2.2 Tocqueville and the American Exception" -- "2.2.1 Tocqueville in America" -- "2.2.2 Tocqueville on America" -- "2.2.3 Tocqueville and America" -- "2.3 Socialism and the American Exception" -- "2.3.1 The No-Socialism Exception" -- "2.3.2 Explaining the American Exception" -- "2.3.3 Rethinking the American Exception" -- "2.4 Anti-Americanism and the American Exception" -- "2.4.1 Exceptional Perceptions" -- "2.4.2 Explaining Anti-Americanism" -- "2.4.3 Anti-Americanism and America" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: "A Sea of Faith": The American Religious Exception" -- "3.1 Megachurches and the American Religious Exception" -- "3.1.1 Megachurches as Models" -- "3.1.2 Megachurches in American Society" -- "3.2 Evangelicalism and the American Religious Exception" -- "3.2.1 The Methodist Mold" -- "3.2.2 Vital Faith" -- "3.2.3 Secular Strains" -- "3.3 Civil Religion and American Identity" -- "3.3.1 A Nation with the Soul of a Church" -- "3.3.2 Broken Covenant?" -- "3.4 Exporting America's God" -- "3.4.1 Exporting the American Gospel" -- "3.4.2 Spiritual Recycling" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: "Equal Justice under Law": The American Legal Exception" -- "4.1 Capital Punishment and the American Legal Exception" -- "4.1.1 Georgia in the Supreme Court" -- "4.1.2 Explaining the Exception" -- "4.2 Adversarial Legalism and the American Legal Exception

The referendum : Non basta più -- The world history of referendums, 1400-2018 -- Plebiscites in dictatorships : voting as a signifiant of total control -- The law and politics of independence referendums -- Consociationalism and direct democracy : direct democracy and elite accommodation -- The stupidity of the people or the wisdom of common folks? Direct democracy and better public policies? -- Prediction or prophecy : forecasting the outcome of EU referendums -- Brexit as an inelastic good -- Comparative constitution making : an introduction -- The consent of the governed : the American Revolution and the US Constitution -- Total recall : revocation of electoral mandates -- Final thoughts.

The article is devoted to the research of the main streams in Anglo-American historiography concerning German problem in 1945–1949. Two main directions in Anglo-American historical science are identified and characterized. Special attention is paid to the various approaches of historians to the reparation problem, pre-conditions of formation separate West German government, causes and consequences of the first Berlin crisis. In result differences in Great Powers' German politics motives are defined, approaches to estimation of their responsibility for country division are stated, key stages of German question development in the period of 1945–1949 are analyzed. ; The article is devoted to the research of the main streams in Anglo-American historiography concerning German problem in 1945–1949. Two main directions in Anglo-American historical science are identified and characterized. Special attention is paid to the various approaches of historians to the reparation problem, pre-conditions of formation separate West German government, causes and consequences of the first Berlin crisis. In result differences in Great Powers' German politics motives are defined, approaches to estimation of their responsibility for country division are stated, key stages of German question development in the period of 1945–1949 are analyzed.

The article is devoted to the research of the main streams in Anglo-American historiography concerning German problem in 1945–1949. Two main directions in Anglo-American historical science are identified and characterized. Special attention is paid to the various approaches of historians to the reparation problem, pre-conditions of formation separate West German government, causes and consequences of the first Berlin crisis. In result differences in Great Powers' German politics motives are defined, approaches to estimation of their responsibility for country division are stated, key stages of German question development in the period of 1945–1949 are analyzed. ; The article is devoted to the research of the main streams in Anglo-American historiography concerning German problem in 1945–1949. Two main directions in Anglo-American historical science are identified and characterized. Special attention is paid to the various approaches of historians to the reparation problem, pre-conditions of formation separate West German government, causes and consequences of the first Berlin crisis. In result differences in Great Powers' German politics motives are defined, approaches to estimation of their responsibility for country division are stated, key stages of German question development in the period of 1945–1949 are analyzed.

EVER SINCE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MADE FREEDOM THE LEGITIMATING PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC LIFE, POLITICS HAS GRAPPLED WITH THE PROBLEM OF ESTABLISHING THE JUST SOCIETY AND STATE UPON ITS BASIS RATHER THAN THAT OF GIVEN AUTHORITY OR INTERESTS, SET VIRTUES OR MEANS OF CONDUCT, OR A TRANSCENDENT FORM OF GOODNESS. IF SUBSEQUENT HISTORY HAS NOT RESOLVED HOW SELF-DETERMINATION CAN BE THE SUBSTANCE OF PUBLIC LIFE, IT HAS FOCUSED ATTENTION UPON TWO CENTRAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM: FIRST, THE PLACE OF CAPITAL WITHIN THE JUST SOCIETY, AND SECOND, THE VALID RELATION BETWEEN SOCIETY AND STATE.

Examines the role of the American Political Science Association and its Organized Sections, groups which reflect the research interests of its members, in shaping growth of the study of politics, 1920s-1990s; US.

In 1813 the celebrated founding editor of the Edinburgh Review, Francis Jeffrey, travelled to New York and Washington while Britain was at war with the United States and there is a surviving journal of that journey. The trip was for a romantic purpose (Jeffrey was to marry and bring back to Britain his second wife) but the timing meant that he was an enemy abroad while on US soil. As such, the journal unsettles our expectations about national identifications and this article examines Jeffrey's interactions in the White House, his reactions to encounters with African Americans and his Romantic responses to the American landscape in order to investigate his transnational politics.

Emphasis on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

The concept of space is discussed. "Space as cognition" includes: (1) space as metaphor--the ability to manipulate nonspatial data in spatial terms (eg, conveying the passage of time by the movement of the hands on a clock), (2) conventional space--delimited, real space, & (3) an intermediate category, technical space--"the intellectual modelling of spatial data themselves in spatial terms." "Space as affect" concerns the emotional dimension of space, the importance of the concepts of territory & boundary & the division "mine-thine." Within this category are several major concepts: (A) the formation of the territorial state, involving expansion, exploitation, provision, & consolidation, (B) the concepts of "externality" & "internality," based on the existence of boundaries, & (C) spatial. "Space as conation or striving" involves the conflicts between territorial desires & overriding needs for a universal sovereign state. B. Annesser.

American vice presidential candidates are chosen for several reasons. Some of these rationales are easy to be recognized, while others belong to the cockles of the heart of the presidential candidates. Social scientists and journalists agree about the factors that are more essential: the vice presidential (VP) nominee's capacity of balancing the ideological and personal characteristics of the presidential candidate and the "native son" effect, namely the guarantee that the VP nominee would carry his/her own state. These strategies are often combined and they work at different electoral levels: the first one has usually a national or macro-regional significance while the second is crucial in the battleground states.This research is divided into two sections: the first one investigates the "balancing the ticket" strategy, offering an overview of about one century of presidential races. The second aims to verify the VP nominee's effect in his/her home state. The results will confirm that there have been several running mates who have been selected in order to "balance the ticket" but also that the vice president nominee's effect in the home states has been quite poor.