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Government depends on collective decision making. Even in peaceful democracies, some decide for all. The author challenges the morality of this position. It is not different political systems that are at fault as the nature of politics itself.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Dedication -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Abbreviations and glossary -- Introduction -- 1. False starts, 1919-23 -- 2. Resurrection, 1923-32 -- 3. Towards the Third Reich, April 1932-August 1933 -- 4. Consolidating the Hitler state, September 1933-July 1934 -- 5. Transition, August 1934-August 1935 -- 6. International power politics, September 1935-August 1937 -- 7. The appeasement triangle, September 1937-September 1938 -- 8. Perception, reality and neutrality, October 1938-September 1939 -- Conclusion: secret histories -- Select bibliography -- Addendum to the bibliography -- Index.

This Country Report on Germany has been realised in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project "LoGov - Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay". LoGov aims to provide solutions for local governments that address the fundamental challenges resulting from urbanisation. To address this complex issue, 18 partners from 17 countries and six continents share their expertise and knowledge in the realms of public law, political science, and public administration. LoGov identifies, evaluates, compares, and shares innovative practices that cope with the impact of changing urban-rural relations in five major local government areas: (1) local responsibilities and public services, (2) local financial arrangements, (3) structure of local government, (4) intergovernmental relations of local governments, and (5) people's participation in local decision-making. The present report provides an overview of the system of local government in Germany. To access the full version of this report , the various practices in the five above-mentioned areas of interest, and to receive more information about the project, please visit: https://www.logov-rise.eu/. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823961.

This paper analyzes whether & how party politics transform German bicameralism. Based on the policy positions of bicameral legislators, the study computes the win sets, the "yolks" of each chamber & a Nash solution in order to analyze empirically the effects of party politics on German bicameralism. In comparison to the basic bicameral model, hypotheses on bicameral conflict & policy stability are tested in the case of similar & different party majorities in the two-dimensional policy space of German labor politics. The results show that party politics transform German bicameralism in two ways. Similar majorities collapse bicameral checks-&-balances, while different party majorities come close to the basic bicameral model with high policy stability & conflict between both chambers. 1 Table, 4 Figures, 57 References. Adapted from the source document.

Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African states since independence. Each chapter considers the formal structure of government at the time of independence and traces the subsequent changes. Each chapter also describes the development of the state machinery, the civil service, the parastatals, defence and police forces, party structure, the political opposition and trade unions. The economics of African states are dealt with insofar as they affect politics and government.