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...Ilya Budraitskis In his essay “The Weakest Link of Managed Democracy: How the Parliament Gave Birth to Nonparliamentary Politics,” Ilya Budraitskis reflects on the model of “managed democracy” in Russian political culture and on the specific place of the Russian Parliament. In December 2011, many...

...David Lorenzo Boyd Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 David Lorenzo Boyd Compilation as Commentary: Controlling Chaucer s Parliament of Fowls An authority has a wax nose, which means that it can be bent into taking on different meanings. [Auctoritas cereum habet nasum, id est...

...William B. Hamilton A Short History of Parliament, 1295-1642 . By Thompson Faith . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1953 . Pp. x , 280 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 292 The South Atlantic Quarterly A Short History of Parliament, 1295...

...Steven Philip Kramer President and Parliament: A Short History of the French Presidency . By Derfler Leslie . Boca Raton : University of Florida Presses , 1983 . Pp. vii , 286 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 227 President and Parliament...

...Paul B. Preciado The “marriage for all” law, passed by the French Parliament in 2013, could be thought of as a sign of social progress. But if we observe its terms from the viewpoint of contemporary relationships between biotechnologies and sexuality, we can conclude instead that the law has...

... has exhausted his course as his sovereignty is based on a paranoid political narrative that is bound to implode. If he peacefully concedes power, the new parliament will have the immense responsibility of reconstructing all the institutions of the social formation. Copyright © 2019 by Duke...

... to the global insurgence of neoliberal reason within the university space. The discourse around the 2015–16 student movement became centered on moments of spectacle—violent clashes between students and police, the burning of paintings, and buildings and images of students protesting en masse outside Parliament...

... were felt themselves to be in a quandary with few resources for resolving the tensions they felt between the depth of their miscarriage grief and their pro-choice politics. In 2005, an Australian parliament passed legislation in response to cases of women miscarrying pregnancies as a result of violence...

... was repressive. Not only did they take the land away from the native Irish, but they gradually assumed more and more political power, until they almost completely domin­ ated the Irish Parliament. Thus they required that all proposed Irish measures should be submitted to the Privy Council at West­ minster before...

...William Thomas Lapkade Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 The New Amendment to the English Constitution William Thomas Lapkade, Assistant Professor of History in Trinity College Again the Parliament of Great Britain has justified its reputa­ tion for conservatism...

... and lectures3 and recently recapitulated, extended, and refined by John Brooke in the introductory survey to his and Namier s collaborative The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790,* Namier s central conclusions about the na­ ture of British politics during the early years of the reign...

... covers a multitude of sins. It is the penalty of general and inspiring concepts that they mean many different things and inspire different minds in many different ways. Parliament in its Grand Remonstrance in 1641 declared that the abolition of the Star Chamber and High Com­ mission had most effectually...

.... The story can begin no later than July, 1765, when George III, on a point of personal honor, dismissed George Grenville and his colleagues from his service. From education and experience he had conceived the idea that the king must not allow himself to be dictated to by the factions in his Parliament...

.... The question of the relations between the two houses of Parliament is by no means new, and Lord Roseberry was not the first to suggest a reformation in the House of Lords. Moreover, in view of William of Normandy s cele­ brated performance, few will accuse Mr. Lloyd George to use 304 The South Atlantic...

... of the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1768, and the Liberty riot, also in 1768. In Reid s view, the crucial fact about the conditions of law in preRevolutionary Massachusetts was that it was bicentric and not unicentric. That is, there was not a single law but two laws. Generated by Parliament and royal officials...

.... In the bitter strug gle in the seventeenth century between Parliament and the Stuart monarchs, the appeal to the example of the early tribal popular assembly in the propaganda of the parliamentary party is a fact well known to students of English political history. In the light of this propaganda for preserving...

...Ahmet Insel 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Ahmet Insel The AKP and Normalizing Democracy in Turkey The parliament that emerged from the gen- eral elections on November , in Turkey has created an unexpected...

... Antonio . 2009 . Commonwealth . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Italian Parliament . 2009 . “ Disposizioni urgenti per l’attuazione di obblighi comunitari e per l’esecuzione di sentenze della Corte di giustizia delle Comunità europee (09G0145) .” Decreto legge, testo coordinato...

... Quaeteely The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade had in mind. By directing their efforts against the slave trade, they diminished the amount of opposition and did not interfere directly with the property of the colonists, nor raise the con­ stitutional question of the power of Parliament over...

...Theodore Ropp Elisha Kent Kane and the Seafaring Frontier . By Mirsky Jeannette . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. viii , 201 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 292 The South Atlantic Quarterly A Short History of Parliament, 1295-1642...