Comparing Liberal Democracies: The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and The European Union - Couverture souple

Gunlicks, Arthur B.

 
9781462057245: Comparing Liberal Democracies: The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and The European Union
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1462057241 ISBN 13 : 9781462057245
Editeur : iUniverse, 2011

Synopsis

In this age of a globalism, understanding the governments and politics of other countries is important in understanding the world around us. In Comparing Liberal Democracies, author Arthur B. Gunlicks contributes to this understanding in a discussion of the institutional structures and backgrounds of four liberal or Western democracies: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the most state-like international organization, the European Union. Gunlicks provides a systematic and thematic (rather than country-by-country) approach that promotes comparisons of similarities and differences based on variables and concepts familiar to American and European students and the attentive publics in Europe and North America. After laying out a historical background, he explores liberal democratic, semi-democratic, and non-democratic states; territorial organization; presidential versus parliamentary political systems; separation of powers and checks and balances in these different political systems; electoral systems; legal systems; and the liberal democratic welfare state. A comprehensive core text, Comparing Liberal Democracies provides the background and concepts necessary for a better understanding of liberal democracies in general and of the American and major European democracies in particular.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this age of a globalism, understanding the governments and politics of other countries is important in understanding the world around us. In Comparing Liberal Democracies, author Arthur B. Gunlicks contributes to this understanding in a discussion of the institutional structures and backgrounds of four liberal or Western democracies: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the most state-like international organization, the European Union. Gunlicks provides a systematic and thematic (rather than country-by-country) approach that promotes comparisons of similarities and differences based on variables and concepts familiar to American and European students and the attentive publics in Europe and North America. After laying out a historical background, he explores liberal democratic, semi-democratic, and non-democratic states; territorial organization; presidential versus parliamentary political systems; separation of powers and checks and balances in these different political systems; electoral systems; legal systems; and the liberal democratic welfare state. A comprehensive core text, Comparing Liberal Democracies provides the background and concepts necessary for a better understanding of liberal democracies in general and of the American and major European democracies in particular.

Biographie de l'auteur

Arthur B. Gunlicks retired in 2005 from the University of Richmond in Virginia, where he was a professor of political science for thirty-seven years. He is also the author of Local Government in the German Federal System and The Laender and German Federalism. Gunlicks and his wife, Regine, have three grandchildren.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1462057241
ISBN 13 
9781462057245
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
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Personne responsable
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