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DMHP 0201

SECOND PUBLIC EXAMINATION

Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Honour School of Modern History and Politics

COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

TRINITY TERM 2003

Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 2.30 p.m.— 5.30 p.m.

Please start the answer to each question on a separate page.

Answer THREE questions.

There are TWELVE questions in this paper.

Do not turn over until toldthat you may do so.

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1. Is the left-right ideological axis still the best way to map party systems?

2. Do 'new institutional' scholars of comparative politics conceive ofinstitutions as

dependent or independent variables or both?

3. Whatrole do constitutions play in the protection of individual rights?

4. Assess the significance for policy outputs ofpresidentialcomparedwith parliamentary

politicalsystems.
5. Is the numberofparties in a polity solelya function of its electoralsystem?

6. What best explains cross-national variations in judicial power?

7. 'The 'new public management'is neither new nor prescriptively compelling.'Discuss.

8. Has the importance of regulation grownin liberal market economies?

9. What makes legislatures effective agents of executive oversight?

10. Assessthe strengthsand weaknessesof federal systems ofgovernment.

11. EITHER: a) 'Without politicalconsensus amongthe voters, democratisation

cannot succeed.' Discuss.

OR: b) Assess the success or failure ofpost-1989 constitutions as facilitators

ofliberal democracy.
12. Has the influence of interest groups declined?

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