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Excerpt from Analysis of Political Systems Two recent writers in particular have shown me the way towards the type of political analysis which this book favours. The late Mr. T. D. Weldon, especially in his The Vocabulary of Politics, exposed the vagueness of terminology in much theorizing about politics. Professor Maurice Duverger in his Political Parties has shown that the study of political institutions can be analytical as well as descriptive. I should like to thank Professor Edvard Thermaenius of Stockholm for explaining to me that British Cabinet Government is not synonymous with what the Swedes call parliamentarism. I owe a special debt of gratitude to the Commonwealth Fund, New York, for enabling me to study the American type of presidential government at first hand and for introducing me to the interesting work being done in the United States in the field of political behaviour. Several British colleagues were kind enough to give me their comments on portions of the manuscript and numerous students helped me to work out my ideas in lectures and seminars. To all of them, and to Miss Rita Turner who typed out the manuscript, I proffer my thanks. I am especially grateful to Professors Wilfrid Harrison of the University of Liverpool and Manning J. Dauer of the University of Florida for their wise criticisms and helpful advice; and to my wife, Diana, for always insisting that I try to make my meaning as clear as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.