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1. Modern governments

   Jacobs, Walter Darnell

   3d ed. - Princeton, N. J. : Van Nostrand, [1966]

2. Helpful Governments [electronic resource]

   Amin, Mohammad

   Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2008.

   This paper provides an alternative way of testing the theory of legal origins, one based on a firm's perception of how helpful the government is for doing business. The author argues that an approach based on firm perceptions offers a number of advantages over existing studies. Specifically, the analysis demonstrates that heavier regulation in civil law compared with common law countries is not viewed by businesses as an efficient and socially desirable response to disorder. Further, the findings show a strong effect of legal tradition on government helpfulness even after controlling for various institutional measures known to be correlated with the legal tradition of countries. This suggests that there is more to legal tradition than what existing studies have unearthed.

   Online World Bank eLibrary

3. Gillard Governments

   Aulich, Chris

   Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2014.

   The years 2010 to 2013 saw a remarkable period in Australian political history: Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister after she successfully staged a leadership challenge to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. A few months later she led her party to the 2010 federal election, and subsequently steered through seventeen days of negotiation with three independent members to successfully form her second, but minority, government. Yet, three years and three days later, she was overthrown by the very man she had originally dethroned. In this book, expert contributors consider the turbu.

   Online EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

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   Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Cape Government Railways

   1900

   A small section of the top left side of the map has been torn off but no image or text is affected. The map is torn along the left hand folds.

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