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Product Description: Privatization, though widely publicised in the 80s, is not a new phenomenon. The 60s and the 70S provide different examples in several European countries. However, in the 80s, the rate of privatization increased dramatically. Between 1984 and 1991, the governments of 105 countries sold the equivalent of $250 billion worth of state companies to private investors...read more

Product Description: Focusing exclusively on the functional rather than the territorial level, this book reveals that the reshaping of the state in western Europe involves different policies across Europe and conflicting tendencies in the impact of the various reform programmes...read more

Product Description: This constitutional and institutional development of the European Community, and federalism in particular, are widely and intensely debated, and the issue of federalism has proved to be divisive and misunderstood. This book provides a critical reappraisal of the political, economic, and socio-cultural potential of current federal political-institutional arrangements...read more

Product Description: "Collective cabinet decisionmaking provides the institutional mechanism by which many governments prioritize their policies and guard against unpredictable policy reversals." - Mansood Ahmed, Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, The World Bank The style and membership of cabinets vary in every country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection provides valuable information about the structures and composition of the higher civil service and its position in the political structure through a comparative analysis of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Speaking truth to power demands diplomatic skills. This book looks at the way advice, which is needed by all executives, is provided to the summit of government in twelve advanced industrialized countries (Australia, Belgium, Britain, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and the US)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Privatization is now a universal practice and is the result of a set of interrelated factors, all of which are explored in this two-volume collection. Following an introduction by the editors, the work concentrates on the public policy of privatization, and explores its dimensions by presenting key theoretical and empirical articles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is one of two volumes in which leading scholars examine how EU member states co-ordinate their European policies. Eschewing the "Europeanization" problematic within which the issue is usually addressed, this book adopts a broader, more inclusive approach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the complex relationship between the European Union and its member states continues to evolve, this book seeks to explore not only the nature of the relationship but also the broader implications of European integration in which politics in Europe is studied...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the complex relationship between the European Union and its member states continues to evolve, this book seeks to explore not only the nature of the relationship but also the broader implications of European integration in which politics in Europe is studied...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The second of two volumes to examine how European Union member states coordinate their European policies, this book investigates the structures, institutions, and processes implemented by national governments in Brussels. It offers a detailed examination of the organization, operation, and performance of permanent representations, and their role in national systems of EU policy making, and looks at the extent to which interaction within a common institutional environment has brought about convergence between national arrangements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume, a distinguished collection of historians and political scientists reflect on France's evolution as a political community from the nineteenth century to the present. France is often seen as a 'Jacobin' polity, committed to the principles of national unity and state centralization, a robust conception of patriotism, the promotion of a uniform and homogenous culture on its society, and the defence of the general interest against sectional concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book, now in its 5th edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This updated edition includes a new chapter on France and Europe.

This book centres on an examination of the stages of, and the reasons for, the growth of presidential government in France. It analyzes the obstacles to, and the limits of, presidentialism and argues that compared to the last regime, there is now a closer focus of authority on the office of presidency. Dr. Wright is the author of a book on the French Council of State and joint author of one on the Fench prefects. He is editor of several books on French and European politics.

The Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This edition updates every chapter, with the addition of a new chapter on France and Europe. Recent events necessitate a new edition, particularly the 2002 elections and the growing interpenetration of France and the EU in student programmes, as well as in the real world.Whether covering the shifting balance within France's two-headed executive, the paradoxes of the French party politics, the power and fragmentation of France's administration, the growing assertiveness of French local government, or the newly visible world of the judiciary, The Government and Politics of France has always sought to confront established paradigms with the complex and untidy reality of French politics at the grass roots.

Product Description: From the collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s to the accession of several key states to EU membership in the 2000s, politics in Central and Eastern Europe has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years. This major new text provides a systematic assessment of government and politics in the region and in its main states...read more