Politics Books

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This book outlines the salient political and socio-economic facts, including developments in art and architecture, from pre-historic times to the present day. It aims to provide the enquiring student of any age with background for current political situations as well as helping the discerning traveller understand more fully what can be seen today as more and more locations are rediscovered on the Continent.

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Examines popular and traditional forms of parliamentary accountability, and investigates the role of UK and European courts and inquiries in the system of legal and quasi-legal accountability. The book also explores the rise of charterism and consumerism and their effectiveness.

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This book has been revised to reflect developments in politics and government into the start of the 21st century. It incorporates analysis of several contemporary issues such as Europe, ethnic issues and law and order.

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The world of government and politics has undergone revolutionary changes during the 1980s, and the first years of the 1990s indicate that the pace of change is likely to continue unabated. This text summarizes these changes and analyzes their effects on the political scene.

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This short but powerful and poignant book challenges total or excessive belief in any thought system.

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This text considers major changes that have occurred in the management of public services provision. It looks at the actual and potential consequences of their implication and addresses issues such as the contracting and enabling state, accountability, policy, politics and management.

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This book sheds academic light on the role of strategy in contemporary British party politics. It discusses the concept, nature and role of political strategy, introducing a new way of discovering how parties behave and re-examines events over the last quarter of a century. This book fills an important gap in the politics and history literature.

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This book sheds academic light on the role of strategy in contemporary British party politics. It discusses the concept, nature and role of political strategy, introducing a new way of discovering how parties behave and re-examines events over the last quarter of a century. This book fills an important gap in the politics and history literature.

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This text integrates both the technical and political elements of taxation, to provide a comprehensive reference on the subject. It should be of interest to lecturers and students on degree and other courses in public administration, economics degrees, and Institute of Taxation courses.

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Aims to identify major finance and organizational management issues confronting the public services and to explain how they can be addressed in practical terms by managers of those services. Developments in the NHS, central and local government are also covered.

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In The Great Education Controversy the author raises and comments on issues arising from the changes made to schools since the 1944 Act with the intention of bringing people to question what we have and to ask if it is what they want.

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Sex, scandal and diamonds history as it's never been told before... In seventeenth century England, everyone is for hire: even the king himself, James I, is a secret pensioner of Spain. James also trades jobs and titles for homosexual favours from ambitious and parasitic Scotsmen who descend on Whitehall, until George Villiers, the future Duke of Buckingham, an irresistibly handsome Englishman, upstages them all to become James's established lover. Buckingham also likes, and perhaps prefers, women. A countess here, a duchess there, even the Spanish prime minister's wife, all serve as appetisers for an unimaginably daring and dangerous main course: Anne of Austria, Queen of France.

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This volume of essays originated from a conference held at the then Maastricht (now Middelburg) Centre for Transatlantic Studies in 2006. MCTS is a consortium of U.S., Mexican, and European institutions that brings together students and faculty in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to study issues and developments that both unite and separate countries on either side of the Atlantic. These papers explore the range of shared and sometimes confl icting concerns not just in international relations (although that is an important part of the collection), but also on historical, cultural, and political issues. In doing so, they highlight the variety of different ways in which transatlantic studies can offer insights into experiences that cross simple national and physical boundaries both in the past and present day.