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Title: The Governments of Europe

Author: Frederic Austin Ogg

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THE GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE

The MacMillan Company
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MacMillan & Co., Limited
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The MacMillan Co. of Canada, Ltd.
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THE GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE

by

FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG, Ph. D.

Professor of Political Science
in the University of Wisconsin
Author of
"Social Progress in Contemporary Europe"

New York
The MacMillan Company
1918
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1913.
by the MacMillan Company
Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1913.
Reprinted July, December, 1913; June, 1914; August, 1915;
July, 1916; September, 1917.

TO MY FATHER

PREFACE (p. vii)

It is a matter of common observation that during the opening years of
the twentieth century there has been, in many portions of the
civilized world, a substantial quickening of interest in the
principles and problems of human government. The United States is
happily among those countries in which the phenomenon can be observed,
and we have witnessed in recent times not only the organization of
societies and the establishment of journals designed to foster
research within the field, but also a notable multiplication and
strengthening of courses in political science open to students in our
colleges and universities, as well as the development of clubs,
forums, extension courses, and other facilities for the increasing of
political information and the stimul