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Este libro clásico se ha convertido en obra de referencia indispensable para aquellos que quieran aproximarse al estudio de los partidos políticos en España, desde el reinado de Fernando VII hasta el estallido de la guerra civil. Tras esbozar una teoria general de la politica, el primer volumen pasa revista al sistema politico español en sus tres vertientes: la organizacion de la participacion, las leyes reguladoras del conflicto y el proceso politico. Por otra parte, se estudia la evolucion de los partidos. En el segundo tomo se recopilan los documentos programaticos considerados de mayor interes historico y doctrinal.

Francis G. Castles Castles (social and public policy, U. of Edinburgh) has assembled, systematized, and updated arguments from articles and books he has written in recent years on the future of the welfare state. Here he focuses on 21 OECD countries over the period 1980-98 in order to base his projections about what is likely to happen to the Western welfare state in the future on what has been happening in the near past. His topics include crises, myths, and measurement; a race to the bottom; the structure of social provision; A European welfare state convergence; explaining expenditure outcomes; populating aging and the public purse; birth-rate blues as a possible real crisis in the making; and towards a steady-state welfare state.

Reshaping the British Constitution provides a vigorous critique of the deformations of Britain''s customary constitution and why it could not effectively stem the growth of a centralized political authority. On this foundation it provides a critical description and assessment of recent constitutional changes including devolution, House of Lords reform, human rights and the encroachment of the European Union. Nevil Johnson suggests that since the reform programme has rested on pragmatic political expediency rather than on coherent thinking about constitutional principles, it is likely to strengthen the familiar deformations of the customary constitution.