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  • Ein ganzes Leben in zwei Tagen

    Von Höhen und Tiefen des Zehnkampfs

    Mitreißende Duelle, das Auf und Ab eines zwei Tage dauerndes Wettkampfes - und ganz am Ende der 1500-m-Lauf, in dem Zehnkämpfer nochmals Alles bis zur völligen Erschöpfung geben: das »Faszinosum Zehnkampf« reicht in seiner Bedeutung weit über das rein Sportliche hinaus. Neben den Highlights von Zehnkämpfen werden Motivation, Training, Werdegang und nicht zuletzt die Rückschläge der »Könige der ... Leer más

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  • Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior

    Passage of Legislation Across Western Europe

    This volume begins where the first Döring book of 1995 finished by considering what effects the rules had on legislative output during the same period. It addresses four distinct yet complementary research topics: - the connection between a number of veto players and law production in West European parliamentary democracies - the impact of closed versus open rules - the effects of committee ... Leer más

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  • Democracy for Realists

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  • Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries

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  • Africa

    Why Economists Get It Wrong

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  • Veto Players

    How Political Institutions Work

    Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Leer más

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  • Public Choice III

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  • Who Votes Now?

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    Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan ... Leer más

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  • Voters and Voting

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  • Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption

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