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The first detailed study of institutional economics and public choice traditions in Afghanistan.

The right to self-determination is renowned for its lack of clear interpretation.

Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.

Why there should be a larger role for the judiciary in American foreign relationsIn the past several decades, there has been a growing chorus of voices contending that the Supreme Court and federal judiciary should stay out of foreign affairs and leave the field to Congress and the president.

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets.

When the door closes on one prime minister's rule, what happens next?

The New Zealand upper house, the Legislative Council (which bore a marked resemblance to its Canadian counterpart the Federal Senate) was abolished in 1950 in an action which represents one of the most clear-cut examples of pragmatic politics in New Zealand history.

Every federal country faces a difficult problem in deciding how its national capital should be governed because of the complex conflicts of interest between the central government, the state governments, and the residents of the capital city.

Brexit will have a significant impact on the UK financial services system.

Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.

Until the eighteenth century, Western societies were hierarchical ones.

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies.

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members?

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

A look inside the weaponization of social media, and an innovative proposal for protecting Western democracies from information warfare.

Will Donald trump international law?

Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform.

The first detailed study of institutional economics and public choice traditions in Afghanistan.

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 UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time.

How the executive branch-not the president alone-formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilaterallyThe president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders.

This work will provide an authoritative and illuminating overview of the U.

The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law offers a sophisticated overview of one of the most contested and consequential areas of American law.

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964.

The scope of presidential authority has been a constant focus of constitutional dispute since the Framing.

The global distribution of power is changing.

This book is about good government-especially ethical and fair government.

The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration.

Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism.

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government.

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.

The full transcript of one of the most shocking testimonies of the Trump Era and in the history of the United States government.

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide.

Arguing about matters of public policy is ubiquitous in democracies.

The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself.

'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.

Offers a First Amendment approach to defend against governmental censorship of the newest form of technological expression: robotic speech.

A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court Almost any Alabamian, white or black, unsophisticated or meagerly educated, can name one man who was a justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Explores the politics of raising revenue from the most dynamic sectors of an economy as an expression of the relationship between state and society, and the capacity of state institutions.

Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy explores the relationship between minority, territory, and autonomy, and how it informs our understanding of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a strategy for accommodating ethno-cultural diversity in modern societies.

This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

Brexit will have a significant impact on the UK financial services system.

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.

Offers an historical, legal, constitutional, moral and philosophical analysis of the declarations of 1812, 1898 and the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

The UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time.

Democracy is being destroyed by an ancient evil, and modernity is in denial.