First Among Unequals

Author : Alex Marland,Matthew Kerby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773590571

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Canadians are told that provincial premiers wield considerable sway. Critics decry premiers as autocrats and dictators, while supporters label them as altruists and great leaders. In Newfoundland and Labrador the premier is expected to be the province's overlord, a patriotic defender of provincial interests, and the decision-maker who brokers competing policy priorities. But does a premier have as much power over government policy decisions as is popularly believed? First among Unequals, a detailed enquiry into the administration of Premier Danny Williams and the first year of his successor Kathy Dunderdale, suggests that the power of the premier is exaggerated by the media, critics, political parties, the public service, and the leaders themselves. With perspectives from economics, education, geography, health policy, history, and political science, contributors explore how dominant Williams was and test theories to show how power operates in provincial governments. They examine politics and government through case studies of the healthcare sectors, education, the fisheries, rural and regional development, hydroelectric projects, and the labour market. Focusing on an era of political populism and rapid economic growth, First among Unequals reasons that there is not enough evidence to suggest that the Premier's Office - even with someone like Danny Williams at the helm - independently shapes public policy. Contributors include Karlo Basta (Memorial), Sean Cadigan (Memorial), Angela Carter (Waterloo), Christopher Dunn (Memorial), Jim Feehan (Memorial), Gerald Galway (Memorial), Ryan Gibson (Memorial), James Kelly (Concordia), Royce Koop (Manitoba), Mario Levesque (Mount Allison), Maria Mathews (Memorial), John Peters (Laurentian), Michelle Porter (Memorial), Kate Puddister (McGill), Valérie Vézina (UQAM), and Kelly Vodden (Memorial, Grenfell).

Author : Alex Marland,Matthew Kerby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773590564

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How political elites shape public policy, viewed through the lens of Premier Danny Williams' headline-grabbing tactics.

Author : Anderson, Viv,Lynton Guest
Publisher : Fullback Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Soccer players
ISBN : 1842260189

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First Among Unequals by Anderson, Viv,Lynton Guest Pdf

The long-awaited autobiography of Viv Anderson, the first black footballer to play for England and Alex Ferguson's very first signing for Manchester United.

Author : Anderson, Viv
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Soccer players
ISBN : 1842260197

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Author : Juan J. Linz,Arturo Valenzuela
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801846404

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The Failure of Presidential Democracy by Juan J. Linz,Arturo Valenzuela Pdf

Brings together leading scholars to examine the question of whether presidentialism or parliamentarism offers the best hope for stable government and democratic continuity. This edition offers comparative perspectives.

Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473523104

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A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee Pdf

Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.

Author : Brantly Womack
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814295277

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China Among Unequals by Brantly Womack Pdf

Presents asymmetry theory, a different paradigm for the study of international relations, derived from China's relationships with its neighbors and the world. This title brings together key writings on the theory and its applications to China's basic foreign policy, particularly towards the United States and the rest of Asia.

Author : Walter van Gerven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311238

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The European Union by Walter van Gerven Pdf

This book explains to a general audience what the European Union is about and how it has grown since 1952 into a polity of 25 States and a population of more than 450 million people. It explains the constitution-making process that is currently taking place in the European Union, and the significance of the draft constitution which has been submitted for ratification by the 25 member states. The book is written from a legal perspective, but contains many references to political science and recent American and European history. It aims to show how the distinctive features of a democratic polity that characterize the Member States can be gradually transplanted to the European Union. To make the book useful to a more specialized set of readers, such as students of law and politics, it contains a large number of notes that contain detailed information and point to additional reading on a variety of topics. The book draws on the author's exceptionally wide and profound knowledge of the institutions of the EU, its history, its laws and its varied cultures. "This book, written by one of the greatest scholars of European law, provides a rare insight into the evolving European constitutionalism. Its analytical narrative explores themes of democracy, accountability, human rights and the rule of law and draws comparisons between the US and European political systems. The end result is an excellent essay on European governance" Professor Takis Tridimas, Queen Mary University of London

Author : Giovanni Sartori
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814780633

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Comparative Constitutional Engineering by Giovanni Sartori Pdf

The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated examination of the problems of making democratic government work. Sartori begins by assessing electoral systems. He attacks the conventional wisdom that their influence cannot be predicted and also disputes the view that proportional representation is always best and will deliver 'consensus democracy'. He argues that the double-ballot formulas deserve more consideration for their ability to facilitate governability in adverse circumstances. His comparative assessment of presidential and semi-presidential systems and the variety of formulas that are categorized, sometimes misleadingly, as parliamentary, looks at the conditions that allow a political form to perform as intended. He concludes with a detailed proposal for a new type of government: alternating presidentialism. This meets the need for strong parliamentary control and efficient government, with safeguards against both parliamentary obstructionism and government by decree, and so could help to avoid political paralysis in Latin America, in the post-communist countries of Europe and in countries with dysfunctional parliamentary systems such as Italy and Israel.

Author : Avril Alba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349228614

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Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership by Avril Alba Pdf

]At a time of rapid change in Central and Eastern Europe, there is widespread interest in alternative forms of market economy. Is it possible to combine the best features of capitalism with the best features of socialism? The first part of the volume examines the idea of `Agathotopia' put forward by Nobel-Prize winner James Meade; the second with worker participation and economic democracy, including the Yugoslav experience and the third with partnership at macro- and micro-levels.

Author : John T Ishiyama,Marijke Breuning
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412969017

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21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook by John T Ishiyama,Marijke Breuning Pdf

This volume, meant to be the first in a series of catalogues documenting the Barnes Foundation's entire holdings, is the first major survey of the Barnes Collection since Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern (CH, Oct'93, 31-0715). Wattenmaker, a former student and instructor at the Barnes Foundation and former director of the Archives of American Art, is more than qualified to complete such a scholarly work. Beginning the catalogue with an essay on Barnes himself, Wattenmaker apparently felt compelled to defend the reputation of this irascible and sometimes antagonistic individual by deploying extensive quotations (from hitherto inaccessible archival documentation) that shed light on Barnes's motives. Next are in-depth essays on William J. Glackens, Alfred Maurer, and others who have major works in the Barnes Foundation. The final section, "Additional Works by American Artists," is organized alphabetically. Each image is accompanied by extensive scholarly footnotes. The photographs are richly textured. The few photographs of the paintings hanging in situ provide a teasing glimpse into the experience of the visitor to Merion, Pennsylvania, the original home of this collection (soon to be closed to the public, in preparation for the museum's move to a new building in Philadelphia). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by K. Mason.

Author : Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498599078

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Race Unequals by Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb Pdf

Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in shades of White male identity. Through an examination of employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic White male identity in the antebellum South. It considers how race provided White men access to the land and enslaved labor that were foundational to the plantation economy, but how the wealthiest of those men used contracts, public law, and plantation management schemes to limit the access points by which overseers, the first managerial class in the United States, could achieve upward mobility as both White people and as men. In navigating the legal and social parameters of their employment contracts, overseers negotiated a white masculinity that formed their managerial identity. This managerial identity carried the imprint of white supremacy necessary to preserve inequities on the plantation, and perhaps in our modern workplaces as well.

Author : Julie Evans
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719060036

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Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights by Julie Evans Pdf

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Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : J. Martin Rochester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429971853

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US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century by J. Martin Rochester Pdf

The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian intervention, and a litany of other concerns on the foreign policy agenda pose complex dilemmas for which there are no simple answers. Through lucid, lively analysis, as well as multiple illustrations and case studies, US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century explores the difficult choices that confront the United States today in a complicated and often dangerous post-Cold War environment. Author J. Martin Rochester engages students in an intelligent examination of American foreign policy past, present, and future, involving them in critical thinking about how foreign policy is made, what factors affect foreign policy decisions and behavior, and how one might go about not only describing and explaining foreign policy but also evaluating it and prescribing solutions.