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The Prime Ministers’ Craft: Why Some Succeed and Others Fail in Westminster Systems, by Patrick Weller

Book of the week: Premiers often have a tenuous hold on power in Cabinet governments, finds Vernon Bogdanor

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Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion, by J. H. Elliott

Inside Lenin’s Government: Ideology, Power and Practice in the Early Soviet State, by Lara Douds

Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement, by Heather Gautney

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