Introduction to comparative Govt (Record no. 8371)

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Classification number 320.3 Blo
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Personal name Blondel, Jean
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Title Introduction to comparative Govt
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Weidenfeld & Nicoloson
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1969
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Extent 557 p.
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Summary, etc. It is now a generation since Herman Finer wrote his Theory and Practice of<br/>Modern Government and since Carl Friedrich wrote Constitutional Government and<br/>Democracy: both were classics of the time of the Second World War and<br/>immediate postwar period. They concentrated, and they could not do other-<br/>wise, on the study of the governments of what were to become the Western<br/>and Eastern worlds, which constituted at the time almost the 'only' parts of<br/>the contemporary world. This was already wider than the scope of previous<br/>studies, of which Bryce's Modern Democracies is perhaps the finest. Before 1914,<br/>liberal democratic government was slowly becoming the rule: the world<br/>seemed to lean towards democracy through constitutional advance and the<br/>gradual opening up of societies. But the hope ended when the First World<br/>War started the 'era of tyrannies' and a dichotomy, almost of a manichaean<br/>type, led to reflections on the frailty of constitutional rule and to an examina-<br/>tion of the conditions and prospects of party dictatorships. With the 1950s,<br/>the dichotomy had in turn to be abandoned: the whole world became the<br/>scene and with over fifty new nations, liberal and dictatorial rule began to be<br/>combined in half-way experiments. 'Development' seemed overwhelming<br/>and governments appeared conditioned, not by how they should be<br/>run,<br/>but<br/>by what they could achieve.<br/>The relative character of liberal and dictatorial government became a<br/>leitmotiv and both older models seemed unsatisfactory; but, for a time, no<br/>new theory replaced these old models. 'Hyperfactualism' grew, while dis-<br/>content characterized the study of government; only at the periphery, and<br/>mainly in relation to parties, did theory continue to progress. At last this<br/>discontent led to new models, perhaps grandiose and overambitious, but able<br/>to take into account both new and old countries. Now that over a decade has<br/>elapsed since Easton's Political System and Almond's first formulation of a<br/>structural-functional approach, it becomes once more possible to consider<br/>comparative government generally, but this time on a world-wide basis, and<br/>to place liberal constitutionalism and dictatorial rule within this broad<br/>context. It is to this object that this text is devoted; but it is an Introduction,<br/>as the gap between the 'grand theory' provided by the new approach and the<br/>necessary middle-range developments is still only partly filled and such a<br/>relatively short book cannot do more than consider very generally most<br/>middle-range problems.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Politics And Govt.
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