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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of the politics and government of the "First State." Once a sparsely populated, agrarian, and relatively insignificant polity, Delaware has become a densely and diversely populated financial and legal center often called the "corporation capital of the world." Delaware's prime location has been central to its development and transition from a goods-producing economy to a fast-growing, service-based economy. Despite its diminutive size, Delaware is, in many ways, the nation's preferred corporate

"Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair's influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state's motto of Regnat Populus ("The People Rule") and the positive trends of democracy." "While maintaining the basic structure of Blair's original work with its focus on important historical patterns and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present, the second edition details the causes and consequences of recent changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent or merely transitory variations in symbol and style. Jay Barth argues that although Arkansas currently expresses a healthier representative democracy than throughout most of its history, its political and governmental entities are still sharply limited as effective instruments of "the people.""--Jacket

The text of "The constitution of the German Reich of August 11, 1919": p. 642-679. ; Lettered on cover: Institute for government research of the Brookings institution. ; Bibliography: p. 680-749. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Preface -- The structure of the book -- What is new to the third edition? -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Russia: Continuity and Change -- 1: Studying Russian Government and Politics -- Why we study Russia -- Russia as a country -- Location, size, and geopolitics -- Regional power -- Military power -- Economic and energy power -- Cultural hub -- A multiethnic state -- Russia and the world -- How we study Russia -- Official reports -- Documents, letters, and communiqués -- Intelligence reports -- Memoirs and eyewitness sources -- Media reports -- Surveys -- Views of Russia and its politics -- On facts and theory in studying Russia -- Domestic politics and views of Russia -- Critical thinking in studying Russia -- Emotions and judgments -- Differences in perception -- Multiple causes of events -- Political pressure -- Conclusion -- 2: The Roots: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union -- Early Russian states -- Mongol rule -- The strengthening of Moscow -- Russia as an empire -- Reforms of Peter the Great -- Becoming a major power -- The reforms of the 1860s-70s -- The revolutions -- The revolution of 1905-07 -- The revolutions of 1917 -- The events of February 1917 -- The events of October and November 1917 -- The development of the Soviet state -- The civil war -- Industrialization -- Agricultural policies -- Government bureaucracy -- Foreign policy -- Political repression -- Political mobilization -- Josef Stalin (1878-1953) -- World War II -- The Soviet Union during the Cold War -- The postwar reconstruction -- The thaw -- The stagnation period -- Critical thinking about Russia's history -- The imperial-moralistic tradition -- The critical-liberal tradition -- The "unique experience" models -- The old and new Sovietologists -- Conclusion -- 3: The Soviet Transformation, 1985-91.