Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to TodayHarvard University Press, 1999 - 412 páginas This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America. |
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... civil service provided this employment , the last of these being the least demanding of personal talents or educational attainment . The typical civil servant , high and low , obtained his post through political connections that , as ...
... civil servants and are appointed by the government to act as the chief administrative officers of an agency with specific functions . In such an agency , the top civil servants who had previously determined admin- istrative policy ...
... civil servants work in agencies administered by quangos ( Drewry , 1994 , 167 ) .26 The development of this system ... civil servants . There is , apparently , evidence that com- mitment to the ruling party , or at least to its political ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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