How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives.
Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and it is the first book on the subject to focus on congressional oversight rather than roll-call voting.
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.
The subject of revolutionary overthrow of constitutional orders in Africa is at the intersection of three disciplines: jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and power politics, and civil-military relations, that is, military security policy which is one aspect of national security policy.
Algunos asuntos ocupan de tal manera la atención de un país que llegan a ser un tema primordial de debate público, hasta convertirse en el referente de los ciudadanos para evaluar el desempeño de un gobierno.
En esta tercera edición del primer tomo de la obra Curso de Derecho Constitucional, enfocado en las bases conceptuales y doctrinarias del Derecho Constitucional, la autora ha enriquecido el trabajo original, que hacía referencia a conceptos fundamentales relacionados con el Estado, el Gobierno, los Derechos Humanos y al modelo democrático constitucional, tanto de Chile como de otros países occidentales.
OECD's 2010 review of Luxembourg's environmental conditions and progress in air, water, waste and materials management; nature and biodiversity; the environment-economy interface; the environment-social interface; and international commitments and co-operation.
An essential primer on impeachment for today's divided public squareWe are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common.
Das Handbuch widmet sich dem nordrhein-westfälischen Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (TVgG-NRW) sowie den Konkretisierungen in den dazu erlassenen Rechtsverordnungen.
The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy contributes to the understanding of the ambivalent nature of power, oscillating between conflict and cooperation, public and private, global and local, formal and informal, and does so from an empirical perspective.
Chasing Evil tells the story of the evolution of modern fugitive investigations within the United States Marshals Service and the pursuit of notorious criminals Andrew Phillip Cunanan, Rafael Resendez-Ramirez (The Railway Killer), the Texas Seven, and John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, better known as the Beltway Snipers.
Es de enfatizar que el esfuerzo del autor al exponer la teoria del perspectivismo y la doctrina de la complicidad social buscando la verdad politica de los pueblos de Hispanoamerica es un ejercicio en el que se exploran diversos aspectos que no son los habituales para referirse a los proceres hispanoamericanos.
There is a strong movement today to fundamentally transform America from a country of freedom, liberty, and justice to a nation of large government that controls every aspect of our lives.
As procedures governing the rulemaking process have proliferated since the Administrative Procedure Act was enacted, the potential procedural pitfalls have multiplied.
At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as 5 million illegals in the United States, the 1972 John Lennon deportation case takes on special relevance today, notwithstanding the passage of forty years since he was placed in deportation proceedings.
The fourth edition of Government Contract Law is a comprehensive, step by step guide through all aspects of federal government contracting and incorporates numerous significant changes in procurement since the Third Edition was published.
The number of amicus briefs has increased dramatically over the years, filed not only with the Supreme Court but also with regularity in federal courts of appeals, state supreme courts, and state intermediate appellate courts.
Exploring how the law can be used to influence, for better and for worse, the lives of the billions of individual animals we call wildlife, this new book focuses not only on the legal issues involved but also on the compelling ethical and moral issues that are inextricably intertwined with our treatment of wild.
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
