| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xi, 699, xxi pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Geography -- Historical heritage -- Ideological setting -- Political theory -- Structure of society -- Tenor of constitutionalism -- Theory of the party's position -- Organization and role of the soviets -- Presidium of the supreme soviets -- Council of ministers of the U.S.S.R. -- Public administration in the soviet union -- Courts, prosecutors, and secret police -- The army and its auxiliaries -- The plan in theory and practice -- Management of the economy -- Guiding postulates on international relations -- Tools and reserves of soviet communism -- The functional concept of soviet communism -- The functional concept of soviet foreign policy -- Recent policies of the U.S.S.R. -- The soviet position at mid-century -- Regional personality -- Economic position -- Traditions of government -- Nationalism and regionalism -- Liberalism -- Socialism -- Agrarianism -- Communism -- Authoritatianism -- Establishment of a soviet orbit -- United front and people's front -- Confirmation of communist control -- Instrumentalities of soviet influence -- People's democracy -- State authority -- State administration -- People's justice -- Transition to socialism -- Economic activity -- Nationalization -- Social welfare -- Crisis government -- Universalism versus particularism -- The religious schism -- Conflict between Austria and Prussia -- Macht und geist -- The late arrival -- The social question -- Historical background -- Underlying principles -- Extraparliamentary forces -- Pseudo parties and unprincipled politics -- William II and the demise of the bismarckian empire -- A road to parliamentarism -- War government- foretaste of dictatorship -- Revolution for democracy -- Framing of the Weimar constitution -- Theory and practice -- Politics of the republic -- Crisis of democratic society -- Changing interpretations -- Permanent revolution: Fundamental traits -- Stages of totalitarian growth -- National socialism and the forces of regimentation -- Hitler and the generals -- War on the world -- Resistance to the total state -- Heir to dictatorship -- Balance sheet of military government -- The bonn constitution: Form and essence -- German democratic republic, Eastern version -- Postwar economic developments -- Germany among the nations -- Promise and fulfillment in Italian experience -- The past in Italy's present -- Particularism and regionalism -- Economic capacity -- Other factors -- Unification -- The statuto -- Parliamentary government -- Party system -- Balance sheet -- Coming of fascism -- Italy and the allies -- Politics and government -- Postwar elections -- Postwar parties -- Constitution of 1948 -- Organization of the state -- The christian democratic regime -- Postwar situation -- Feudal background -- The crown -- Legal sovereignty of parliament -- British thought on political authority -- Institutional development of parliment -- Parliment and the executive -- Parliament as a representative institution -- Other representative bodies -- British theory and practice of representation -- Suffrage -- Party system -- Economic and social order -- Crisis government -- Modern British political thought -- Advent of labour -- Labour and the constitution -- Labour and the economy -- Labour and the planned society -- Swing to conservatism -- New impulses in the commonwealth and international society -- The democratic tradition -- The republican experience -- The process of political reconstruction -- Organs of parliamentary rule -- Processes of administration and justice -- From Laissez faire to semisocialism -- From empire to Quasi commonwealth -- Party Pattern -- Social texture -- Economic challange -- Residue of great-power status -- France, Europe, and the world community |
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Europe -- Politics and government.
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Europe. |
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Politics and government. |
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