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The two pieces which follow have been extracted from books which are intended to introduce students to aspects of government and politics. The first extract is taken from Robert Dahl’s book Modern Political Analysis’. In this extract, Dahl deals principally with the question of the classification of ‘political systems’ and introduces two classical definitions — Aristotle’s and Weber’s. He also examines the criteria from which classification is made. The second extract, ‘Constitutionalism: A Preliminary Discusssion’, is by G. Sartori, and deals in a clear, straightforward way with the question: what is a constitution?
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M. Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation, trans. A. M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons (New York, 1947 ).
K. C. Wheare, Modern Constitutions (London, 1960 ).
W. I. Jennings, The Law and the Constitution (London, 5th edn., 1959 )
G. Sartori, Democratic Theory (Detroit, 1962 ).
C. J. Friedrisch, The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective (Chicago, 1958 ).
K. Loewenstein, Political Power and the Governmental Process (Chicago, 1957 ).
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Dahl, R.A., Sartori, G. (1970). The Formal Structure Of Government. In: Understanding Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15392-3_24
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