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Democracy promotion is an established principle in US and EU
foreign policies today, but how did it become so? This comparative
study explores the promotion of democracy, focusing on exponents
from emerging democracies alongside more established Western
models, and investigates the impact of democratic interests on
foreign policy.
For anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this
is the story of that barn and many others in Southeastern
Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the
Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One of the
earliest-settled areas in North America, this region of the
Keystone State, which includes eleven counties, is home to an
astounding 20,000 standing barns, in various states of repair,
built from the late 1700s on. Discussed in this text are the
primary factors that have determined the fundamental structures and
appearances of the six great barn classifications, including forest
resources. Other featured topics are architectural aspects and
regionalisms, dates of construction, survival of 18th-century
examples, mysterious decorations, and barn preservation. Completing
this treatise are representative color photographs, building plan
sketches, charts conveying the prevalence of types, and a glossary
of barn terms.
The laws that legislatures adopt provide a crucial opportunity for elected politicians to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy vary considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in an effort to micromanage policymaking processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial discretion to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter? The authors address these issues by developing and testing a comparative theory of how laws shape bureaucratic autonomy. Drawing on a range of evidence from advanced parliamentary democracies and the U.S. States, they argue that particular institutional forms--such as the nature of electoral laws, the structure of the legal system, and the professionalism of the legislature--have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policymaking process.
Rationalizing Parliament examines how institutional arrangements in
the French Constitution shape the bargaining strategies of
political parties. The book investigates the decision by French
cities to include in the Constitution legislative procedures aimed
to 'rationalize' the policy-making role of parliament and analyses
the impact of these procedures on policy outcomes, cabinet
stability and political accountability. Drawing on diverse
methodological approaches, including formal models, multivariate
statistics, historical analysis and qualitative case studies,
Professor Huber contributes to general theoretical debates about
the endogenous choice of institutions, and about the exogenous
impact of institutional arrangements on political decision-making.
Through its use of theories developed in the American politics
literature, the study reveals important similarities between
legislative politics in the United States and in parliamentary
systems and shortcomings in conventional interpretations of French
institutional arrangements.
Updates the highly acclaimed original edition with extensive new
material that relates to the form, essence, and age of each Dutch
barn as well as the evolution of the barn building era.
Gregory D. Huber updates John Fitchen's The New World Dutch Barn
with extensive new material. Added to Fitchen's descriptions of
barn types, framing style, and exterior appearance is research
information that relates to the form, fabric, and essence of each
Dutch barn. Huber notes the secondary expressions seen in barns in
various locations in both New York and New Jersey, the evolution of
the barn building tradition, and why only one of the four major
tie-beam types found in the Netherlands proliferates in
America.
In 1921/22 Edouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for
the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format
pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to
French Rococo painting. Two overdoors provide an intimate insight
into the artist's art collection. The cycle of paintings is of
outstanding quality as regards both content and form, but it to
date has seldom been examined and exhibited. It was created
immediately after the end of the First World War and the re-opening
of the Louvre. Vuillard's Louvre pictures are a humanist manifesto
for the social importance and responsibility of museums as places
that preserve the evidence of human creativity for future
generations.
The laws that legislatures adopt provide a crucial opportunity for elected politicians to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy vary considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in an effort to micromanage policymaking processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial discretion to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter? The authors address these issues by developing and testing a comparative theory of how laws shape bureaucratic autonomy. Drawing on a range of evidence from advanced parliamentary democracies and the U.S. States, they argue that particular institutional forms--such as the nature of electoral laws, the structure of the legal system, and the professionalism of the legislature--have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policymaking process.
Rationalizing Parliament examines how institutional arrangements in
the French Constitution shape the bargaining strategies of
political parties. The book investigates the decision by French
cities to include in the Constitution legislative procedures aimed
to 'rationalize' the policy-making role of parliament and analyses
the impact of these procedures on policy outcomes, cabinet
stability and political accountability. Drawing on diverse
methodological approaches, including formal models, multivariate
statistics, historical analysis and qualitative case studies,
Professor Huber contributes to general theoretical debates about
the endogenous choice of institutions, and about the exogenous
impact of institutional arrangements on political decision-making.
Through its use of theories developed in the American politics
literature, the study reveals important similarities between
legislative politics in the United States and in parliamentary
systems and shortcomings in conventional interpretations of French
institutional arrangements.
The writer Ferdinand Schmatz is not only an outstanding poet and
essayist; for more than thirty years he has also taught at the
University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he has headed the
Institute of Linguistic Arts since 2012. In alles oder nichts
wortet [all or nothing in words], his colleagues, peers, and
students honor the work and influence of Ferdinand Schmatz in a
special way; by reading his texts, through literary responses to
his writing, in anecdotes, common thought experiments, and warm
appreciation. This volume also includes conversations with the
author and excerpts from selected works of other artists, including
those of composers Wolfgang Mitterer and Beat Furrer.
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