Constitution: government and the state

This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies.

Surveys patterns of crisis, coercion and credibility in US-North Korea relations from the 1960s through to 2010.

CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of ''global China.

Der indische Seiltrick fokussiert auf einen wichtigen, aber gefährlich ignorierten Defekt des modernen politischen Denkens, nämlich den unvorsichtigen Gebrauch und den Missbrauch von Sprache.

Presenting new theoretical perspective, this book shows how law and politics shape state high court use of Supreme Court precedent.

More than ever Canada's constitutional monarchy should be treasured as a distinct asset for the nation.

A study of citizenship formation in post-1979 Iran, examining the centrality of non-elite women''s participation in the process.

"e;Almond draws on everything from The Grapes of Wrath to the voting practices of his babysitter to dismantle the false narratives about American democracy.

Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington.

"e;Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be well-advised not to read this book.

In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness?

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

Constitutional conventions precede law and make law making possible, but attempting to define them is politically risky yet increasingly necessary.

The period from the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century was one of critical importance to British constitutionalism.

A study of the poor''s movements in response to the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics.

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The Obama administration's overreaching and pervasive secularist policies represent the greatest government-directed assault on religious freedom in American history.

The story of the spectacular unravelling of journalism as a profession in Russia in the last thirty years.

Provides a quantitative history of the development of constitutional law in the United States during the past 150 years.

A deep and gorgeous study of the Magna Carta and how it still influences our world.

Covenanting Citizens throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English Revolution.

In The Ohio State Constitution, Steven Steinglass and Gino Scarselli provide a comprehensive and accessible resource on the history of constitutional development and law in Ohio.

In order to understand Iran's religious revolution of 1978-1979, it is important to look closely at an earlier revolution in the country, the constitutional revolution of 1905-1909.

Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war?

Why are so many American social programs delegated to private actors?

Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow.

America urgently needs a new direction.

In this New York Times bestseller, a CBS reporter reveals how the Obama Administration spied on her and offers a scathing critique of the media industry.

When the first President Bush chose David Hackett Souter for the Supreme Court in 1990, the slender New Englander with the shy demeanor and ambiguous past was quickly dubbed a "e;stealth candidate"e;.

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.

Many people with orderly minds tend to see in the office and functions of the Lieutenant-Governor simply a copy in essentials of what they profess to find at Westminster and Ottawa.

This "e;Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions"e; contains the full text for the constitutions of all important countries of the world.

Constitutional scholar George Anastaplo believes that many judges and lawyers draw upon a skimpy, if not simply unreliable, knowledge of history.

Conceptions of democracy have implications for democratic legitimacy and political behavior.

Reveals how meaningful corruption control by authoritarian regimes is surprisingly common and follows a different playbook than democratic anti-corruption reform.