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"The book analyses Scotland's first parliamentary election in May 1999, and looks to the future of Scottish politics, Scottish social attitudes and Scotland's relationship with the rest of the United Kingdom. Written by the leading authorities on Scottish politics and society, it provides a definitive account of social and political attitudes in Scotland at the beginning of the new parliamentary democracy, and at a time when Scotland's relationship with the rest of the United Kingdom is undergoing radical change."--Jacket

The interaction between politics and administration has generally been ignored by students of bureaucracy. Ezra N. Suleiman, however, views the French bureaucracy as a dynamic and integral part of the French political system. Using survey data as well as historical and contemporary sources, he concentrates on the highest officials and examines their relationships with both the political sector and the society. After identifying the place of the state in French society the author deals with the recruitment of higher civil servants, using comparative data to explain why the high social origins of French civil servants have remained constant. His investigation of the important institutional mechanisms of the central administration stresses that even a centralized and powerful bureaucracy must be seen as a complex of institutions rather than as a monolithic organization. Finally the author deals with the relations of the higher civil servants with other groups in society and with the regime of the Fifth Republic. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Introduction : Latinos and US politics -- Mexican Americans : conquest, migration, and adaptation -- Puerto Ricans : from colonized people to political activists -- Cuban Americans : occupation, revolution, and exile politics -- Dominicans : political upheaval, imperialism, and transnational activism -- Central Americans : inequality, war, and solidarity -- Latina/o participation : individual activity and institutional context -- Conclusion : Latino migration and mobilization in context

1. Introduction : EU presidencies between politics and administration -- 2. The early preparations phase : creating the foundation for the EU presidencies -- 3. The intensive preparations phase : putting the EU presidencies on track -- 4. The execution phase : managing the presidencies -- 5. The evaluation phase : transfer to the next membe state and lessons learned from the presidencies -- 6. Conclusions.

Part I. Foundations. Americans and their political values ; The founding and the Constitution ; Federalism ; Civil liberties ; Civil rights -- Part II. Politics. Public opinion ; The media and political information ; Political parties and interest groups ; Participation, campaigns, and elections -- Part III. Institutions. Congress ; The Presidency ; The bureaucracy ; The federal courts -- Part IV. Policy. Domestic policy ; Foreign policy.

'American Political History' captures the richness of American political history, focusing primarily on national politics. The book explores the nature of the two-party system, key turning points in American political history and explains representative presidential and congressional elections. It also highlights the struggles to expand the electorate, critical social protest and third-party movements.

At the time of original publication the author argued that contemporary forces within Japan were combining to create a strong movement for revision of the constitution and for the acquisition of nuclear weapons by renewed and powerful military establishment. The American government, which had encouraged rearmament, was beginning to wonder about the world effect of an economically powerful rearmed Japan and was weighing the consequences of considering Japan its only major ally in East Asia. Albert Axelbank suggests that shifting international politics and the conservative momentum in Japan make

This book provides an in-depth look into key political dynamics that obtain in a democracy without parties, offering a window into political undercurrents increasingly in evidence throughout the Latin American region, where political parties are withering. For the past three decades, Peru has showcased a political universe populated by amateur politicians and the dominance of personalism as the main party-voter linkage form. The study peruses the post-2000 evolution of some of the key Peruvian electoral vehicles and classifies the partisan universe as a party non-system. There are several elements endogenous to personalist electoral vehicles that perpetuate partylessness, contributing to the absence of party building. The book also examines electoral dynamics in partyless settings, centrally shaped by effective electoral supply, personal brands, contingency, and iterated rounds of strategic voting calculi. Given the scarcity of information electoral vehicles provide, as well as the enormously complex political environment Peruvian citizens inhabit, personal brands provide readymade informational shortcuts that simplify the political world. The concept of "negative legitimacy environments" is furnished to capture political settings comprised of supermajorities of floating voters, pervasive negative political identities, and a generic citizen preference for newcomers and political outsiders. Such environments, increasingly present throughout Latin America, produce several deleterious effects, including high political uncertainty, incumbency disadvantage, and political time compression. Peru's "democracy without parties" fails to deliver essential democratic functions including governability, responsiveness, horizontal and vertical accountability, or democratic representation, among others. Omar Sanchez-Sibony is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas State University.

Front Matter -- Copyright page /Robert J. Pekkanen -- Personnel Management and the Policy-Making Process /Robert J. Pekkanen -- Making a Cabinet /Nathaniel B. Thayer -- The Liberal Democratic Party /John Creighton Campbell -- The Specter of Crisis /Kent E. Calder -- The Liberal Democratic Party: The Organization of Political Power /Gerald L. Curtis -- From Pork to Policy: The Rise of Programmatic Campaigning in Japanese Elections /Amy Catalinac -- The Prime Minister and Party Politics: The LDP and the Opposition /Kenji Hayao -- Nukaga Fukushiro: Climbing the Ladder to Influence /Masahiro Yamada -- Electoral Reform and the LDP /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The End of One-Party Dominance /Gerald L. Curtis -- Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy /T. J. Pempel -- Forces for Political Reform: The Liberal Democratic Party's Young Reformers and Ozawa Ichirō /Otake Hideo -- Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan /Robert Pekkanen , Benjamin Nyblade and Ellis S. Krauss -- Party and Voter Dealignment: The LDP System Disintegrates /Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel -- Electoral Incentives and Policy Preferences: Mixed Motives Behind Party Defections in Japan /Steven R. Reed and Ethan Scheiner.