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The theory and practice of modern government

Title
The theory and practice of modern government / by Herman Finer ; revised by William B. Guthrie ; with a foreword by Howard Lee McBain.
Author
Finer, Herman, 1898-1969.
Publication
New York : Dial Press, 1934.

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Additional Authors
Guthrie, William B. (William Buck), 1869-1940
Description
xv, 918 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Representative government and representation
  • Political science
  • Political science
  • Representative government and representation
  • Staatslehre
  • Verfassungslehre
  • Vergleichende Regierungslehre
  • Vergleichende Regierungslehre
Note
  • A revision of the author's two volume work. cf. Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Introduction -- 1. Government and the state -- 2. Politics and economics -- 3. State activity: historical development -- 4. State activity: analytical -- Part II. The elements of organization -- 1. Forms of government, especially democracy -- 2. The separation of powers: false and true -- 3. Constitutions (the institutional fabric of the state) -- 4. The central-local territorial fabric of the state (federalism) -- 5. The German Federation since 1918 -- Part III. The sovereign majority -- 1. The electorate and political parties -- 2. Representative government is party government -- 3. Public opinion and the parties -- 4. A closer view of party -- 5. The creeds and policies of modern parties -- Part IV. Parliaments -- 1. Parliaments: general problems -- 2. Second chambers -- 3. The commons -- 4. Deliberation and procedure -- 5. Remedies for defects in representation -- Part V. Cabinets and chiefs of state -- I. The British cabinet -- 2. The French cabinet -- 3. The German cabinet system -- Part IV. The civil service -- 1. Character of civil service: France -- 2. Recruitment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Germany -- 3. England: origins, reform and recruitment -- 4. France and the U.S.A. -- 5. Problems which arise after recruitment -- 6. Redress of grievances and guarantee of rights -- 7. Legal remedies against public administration and administrative law -- 8. The public and the services.
LCCN
34038357
OCLC
  • ocm00981736
  • 981736
  • SCSB-245990
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library