Download or read book An Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law written by R. C. van Caenegem and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constitutional question is of paramount importance in the political and nationalist agenda of late twentieth-century Europe. Professor van Caenegem's new book addresses fundamental questions of constitutional organisation: democracy versus autocracy, unitary versus federal organisation, pluralism versus intolerance, by analysing different models of constitutional government through an historical perspective. The approach is chronological: constitutionalism is explained as the result of many centuries of trial and error through a narrative which begins in the early Middle Ages and concludes with contemporary debates, focusing on Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Special attention is devoted to the rise of the rule of law, and of constitutional, parliamentary, and federal forms of government. The epilogue discusses the future of liberal democracy as a universal model.
Download or read book Handbook of Administrative History written by Jos Raadschelders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration is commonly assumed to be a young discipline, rooted in law and political science, with little history of its own. Likewise, teaching and scholarship in this field is often career oriented and geared either toward the search for immediately usable knowledge or guidelines and prescriptions for the future. Although most administrative scientists would acknowledge that their field has a history, their time horizon is limited to the recent past. Raadschelders demonstrates that public administration has in fact a long-standing tradition, both in practice and in writing; administration has been an issue ever since human beings recognized the need to organize themselves in order to organize the environment in which they lived. This history, in turn, underlines the need for administrators to be aware of the importance and contemporary impact of past decisions and old traditions. In seeking to go beyond the usual problem-solving and future-oriented studies of public administration, this volume adds greatly to the cognitive richness of this field of research. Indeed, the search for theoretical generalizations will profit from an approach that unravels long-term trends in the development of administration and government."Raadschelders approaches public administration history from a dual perspective, as trained historian and professor of public administration.... The volume is appropriately called a aehandbook' in view of its methodical listing of the literature on administrative history, together with summaries of numerous authors' principal theories. The second chapter is an essay on sources in the field, including an extended bibliography.... These parts of the book alone make it useful to scholars in the field.... Raadschelders is helpful in other ways as well. The third and fourth chapters offer a highly sophisticated discussion of methodological problems encountered in writing administrative history, including the issue of perceiving 'stage
Download or read book Histoire des institutions publiques depuis la R volution fran aise written by Gérard Sautel and published by Dalloz-Sirey. This book was released on 1997 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage est une histoire qui appartient au droit public des temps récents, laquelle commence avec les bouleversements de la Révolution française, et s'étend jusqu'à ceux du XXe siècle - période complexe, de longue date familière aux auteurs. Plus encore que pour d'autres époques, il a paru raisonnable de ne pas perdre de vue l'articulation du droit public général (souvent source de cohérence...), non plus que le dynamisme des forces politiques et sociales (souvent source de dispersion...). L'Ancien Régime finissant avait déjà construit l'Administration comme une mise en œuvre des options gouvernementales. Cet exercice institutionnel devient sans doute plus difficile à l'intérieur du triptyque désormais classique des pouvoirs ; mais, s'il demeure d'une nature plus proche de l'exécutif, il ne néglige ni le recours nécessaire à la réglementation, ni le respect d'un équilibre qui se veut juste. Dans cet ensemble où se joue l'action publique, la présente étude s'est concentrée sur certains points essentiels : s'attachant d'abord à la situation de l'administration au sein de l'Etat et à ses aménagements locaux ; envisageant ensuite l'impératif service de la Justice, dont le principe veut qu'elle inspire toutes décisions à l'intérieur de l'Etat ; enfin terminant cette trilogie par le service indispensable des finances qui assurent la vie matérielle de la communauté étatique. Restait à donner un exemple des réseaux multiples de services qui s'accrochent au niveau central de l'Administration. Pour ce faire, on a choisi le service des travaux publics, dont l'ancienneté est le meilleur garant de la solidité et de la finesse de sa technique.
Download or read book The Statesman s Year book written by Frederick Martin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historians History of the World France 1815 1904 Netherlands written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Download or read book France 1815 1904 Netherlands written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books of Reference for Students Teachers of French written by Eugen Braunholtz and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century written by Koenraad Wolter Swart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Monarchy was the dominant power of the seventeenth century. The French armies were victorious on most battlefields and French political institutions were introduced into many countries. Among enemies as well as among friends French literature was admired and French manners were imi~ tated. This glorious period of French history had its seamy aspects, however. 1) France's military triumphs and cultural achievements did not imply a sound political and social structure. One of the most outstanding political abuses was the sale of public offices (venalite des offices), which had become an official institution of the State. Almost all offices, civil as well as military, from the lowest to the highest, were publicly sold either by the officials or by the King himself. Sale of offices is not just another form of corruption. It had serious political implications because it placed power in the hands of officials who were often incapable and unreliable. The bureaucracy, one of the fundamental institutions of the absolute monarchy, was thus deprived of much of its strength. Sale of offices also influenced the social structure of the country because it only gave to wealthy people the opportunity to hold office and excluded other classes. Further, the creation of new offices added to the burden of the taxpayer and had a disas~ trous effect on France's financial system. Finally, the invest~ ment of a large part of the national wealth in unproductive goods affected unfavorably the economic activity of the country.
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation written by M. de Jong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation. As a member of the panel, this author asked those in the audience who lived and/or worked in a country different from their country of origin to raise their hands. About half of the audience of well over one hundred academic teachers and researchers from all comers of the world, the present author included did so. Next he asked who had a spouse or partner from a country different from their country of origin to also raise their hands. About half of the audience, the present author included, raised their hands. This is the soft side of globalisation. The soft side of globalisation is important. Exchanges, personal mobility, international romances, multi-culturalism and multi-lingualism (inevitably meaning non-native speakers struggling to keep up with native English speakers) are part of the academic scene, so much so that we can hardly imagine it to be otherwise. These are not entirely new phenomena, but they have become ever more prominent, relying on an ever more elaborate institutional infrastructure of exchange programmes, international journals, associations and the global conference industry. It was at the AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) congress at Bmo in the Czech Republic in July 2000 that the plan for this book was hatched.
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Legal System written by Andrew West and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to explain the French legal system in sufficient breadth and depth to give the reader a full understanding of its operation. The book deals with topics such as the court structure, legal professions and sources of law, as well as matters of proof and procedure before the courts.
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881 1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
