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Out of Slavery, first published in 1985, offers a broad reappraisal on slavery, and of the contribution and personality of the Abolitionists, particularly of their leader and spokesman William Wilberforce.

Out of Slavery, first published in 1985, offers a broad reappraisal on slavery, and of the contribution and personality of the Abolitionists, particularly of their leader and spokesman William Wilberforce.

National champions are firms promoted by governments to defend the national interest in the international market. This book looks at how European national champions have fared under the pressure of European integration and in an increasingly competitive world economy.

In the 1990s there has been an increasingly widespread sense that the governing elites are losing touch with their peoples. Leaders are no longer able to count upon the acquiescence of their citizens to which they were accustomed. The disenchantment has resulted in the loss of public support for the political institutions of both the individual European nation states and of the European Union. Taking elitism and populism as the opposite poles ...

Two leading authors challenge the assumption that France has a well coordinated government. The constitutional, political, and policy frameworks of coordination are critically assessed in relation to the central actors and spending ministries, as well as the formal and informal mechanisms of coordination. Four case studies are examined, the European Union, budget, privatization and immigration policy processes. The book concludes with forthrig...

The distinctive strength of political science in Britain is revealed in this indispensable guide to modern British scholarship in the field. As well as charting the development of the discipline, the essays examine the innovative contributions to the study of nationalism, totalitarianism and authoritarianism and the influential British approach to international relations. The fourteen distinguished authors have provided a major contribution to...

Papers presented during the William Wilberforce 150th anniversary celebrations at the University of Hull, July 1983.

This book explores the way in which the French define their identity by opposition to the 'Anglo-Saxons', first England, now America. French politics has been at the mercy of struggles between the fragmented Right and a fragmented Left over who represents anti-France.

A-state-of-the-art and comprehensive survey covering all aspects of politics in Western Europe. The volume brings together the very best scholars in the field from the UK, continental Europe and North America.

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This original and absorbing book uses geography (in the classic terminology of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre' to make room for sociology') to explain the widely recognized but never systematized duality of French politics. In the process it develops models that are valid in other times and places as well as in France, and that challenge many prevailing interpretations of the political and economic development of Europe.

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The 1994 European Elections focused public attention on the perception that representatives put integration above public interest. The contributors here critically assess the diagnosis of the ailment and the solutions that have been canvassed to remedy its causes and consequences.

This original and absorbing book uses geography (in the classic terminology of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre' to make room for sociology') to explain the widely recognized but never systematized duality of French politics. In the process it develops models that are valid in other times and places as well as in France, and that challenge many prevailing interpretations of the political and economic development of Europe.

It is generally agreed that the new-style presidency is the key institution of the French Fifth Republic in that it helps to ensure the stability and effectiveness of the political system-something that France has been seeking since the Revolution of 1789. Yet, paradoxically, no comprehensive study of the French presidential phenomenon exists. The accumulated experience of 1959-1991, extending over the terms of de Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d'E...

Between 1947 and 1989 European politics was dominated by an East-West divide that was geographically identified with a split between the areas dominated by the Soviet Union and the United States superpowers, and ideologically identified with the split between capitalists democracy and communist autocracy.

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The 1994 European Elections focused public attention on the perception that representatives put integration above public interest. The contributors here critically assess the diagnosis of the ailment and the solutions that have been canvassed to remedy its causes and consequences.

The editors have brought together contributions from specialists in the three countries.

Between 1947 and 1989 European politics was dominated by an East-West divide that was geographically identified with a split between the areas dominated by the Soviet Union and the United States superpowers, and ideologically identified with the split between capitalists democracy and communist autocracy.