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This book makes a significant contribution by synthesizing topics (legislators, party systems, bureaucracies, executive-legislative relations, and public policy) and regions (Latin America and Asia) that are not commonly compared. [It] applies a wide range of methods, from following bills through legislatures to interviewing local actors and collecting local scholarship and archival materials. -Gretchen Casper, Penn State University Given the tremendous problems caused by recurrent budget deficits in many developing countries today, the books focus on fiscal policy is particularly timely. Anyone concerned with the relationship between institutions and policy will benefit from reading this excellent book, as will those concerned more generally with economics and politics in Argentina or the Philippines. -Mark P. Jones, Michigan State UniversityAs economic reform in developing countries has shifted from macroeconomic stabilization to liberalization, opportunities for legislators to influence the process and outcome of reform have increased and their role has become more important. This book focuses attention on differences in institutional structure, in political parties and electoral rules, to show how they create incentives that can explain the varying ways in which legislators respond to policy initiatives from the executive branch.In Argentina and the Philippines, presidents proposed similar fiscal reforms in the 1990s

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Britain and its internal others ,argues that the new emphasis on equality before the law in an age of imperial expansion was no coincidence. Common English men and women were bestowed &ndash, discursively at least &ndash, with rights and equality at the very moment that the British appropriated rights and property from colonial subjects. As Britain&rsquo,s empire expanded in the second half of the eighteenth century, its law managed interactions among peoples and cultures, linking metropole and colonies in a vast imperial legal web. It was at this time that rule of law became Britain',s signature ideology, and a central justification for its imperial authority and superiority. Neither at home nor abroad did the rule of law emerge neatly from abstract principles of English justice, but was instead the product of imperial contact and collision. The English legal process sustained distinctions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class before the law, creating and protecting whiteness as a privileged category. The demands of internal others &ndash, Jews, Gypsies, Africans, Catholics, and Irish &ndash, for equality before the law drew them into the legal system, challenging longstanding notions of English identity and exposing contradictions in the rule of law. Revisiting six notorious legal events involving Britain',s internal others in London',s courtrooms, streets, and presses &ndash, the Jewish Naturalisation Act and the Elizabeth Canning case (1753&ndash,54), the Somerset Case (1772), the Gordon Riots (1780), the mutinies of 1797, and Union with Ireland (1800) &ndash, this study shows how contact with &lsquo,foreign&rsquo, cultures and communities ,at home, particularly in London, promoted the ideology of rule of law in the service of empire._,

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Este texto, narrado nunha das terceiras persoas máis famosas da Historiada Literatura, relata a conquista da Galia polo seu autor. A obrafoi concibida como un relato de campaña bélica destinado a fornecerdunha fonte de primeira man a historiadores posteriores, pero tamencomo unha arma de propaganda: neste senso, o seu fi n foi incrementara influencia da figura de Cesar na opinion publica informada da antigaRoma, e asi servir de alicerce para a concrecion das suas ambicionsde poder. Por iso, A guerra da Galia constitue unha fonte da maiorimportancia para comprender o seu xeito de actuar, asi como a suapersonalidade.Os efectos sobre o territorio da conquista de Cesar sentense aindahoxe, pois a administracion da Galia como provincia converteuna nunhapeza basica do Imperio Romano, da que xurdiria o reino medievaldos francos e o futuro estado frances.