Constitution: government and the state

In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century.

Testing assumptions and implications of spatial voting theory, this book connects theory with empirical analysis of voter preferences and behavior.

"e;Superbly written, filled with brilliant insights .

Constitutional Odyssey is an account of the politics of making and changing Canada's constitution from Confederation to the present day.

Focusing on the transnational LGBT movement that has gained unprecedented momentum, this study is a timely contribution to debates both scholarly and popular.

This book demonstrates similarities in health inequities afflicting Black and disabled people in America to support collaborative, intersectional health justice advocacy.

The first full-length study of the historic 2006 immigrant rights protests in the US, in which millions of Latinos participated.

The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics.

Rather than considering the relationship between the three branches of government in the abstract, Beatty focuses on legal practice as it functions in labour law, and shows how the Charter could be used both to reform labour law and to protect against attempts to reverse gains made in labour legislation in the past.

Justice in the U.

This volume uses essential and illuminating primary documents as a portal for understanding the evolution and present parameters of presidential power, the relationship between America's three branches of government, and why wartime often leads presidents to claim expansive powers and authority.

An Introduction to Political Science in Nigeria attempts to fill the void in the literature for undergraduate and graduate students in the Third World, particularly Nigeria, that are studying the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and law.

The numerous legal, moral, and social threats on the horizon in America have caused many Christians to wonder whether they can truly make a difference.

In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service during the month of September, grouped according to topics.

How Trump has used the federal government to promote conservative policiesThe presidency of Donald Trump has been unique in many respects most obviously his flamboyant personal style and disregard for conventional niceties and factual information.

Though Lyndon Johnson developed a reputation as a rough-hewn, arm-twisting deal-maker with a drawl, at a crucial moment in history he delivered an address to Congress that moved Martin Luther King Jr.

Where Trump Learned to RuleTo know Donald J.

Conventional wisdom emerging from China and other autocracies claims that single-party legislatures and elections are mutually beneficial for citizens and autocrats.

A critical exploration of the steps taken to promote peace, reconciliation and justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

The United States is seemingly confronted with more global issues now than it has ever experienced.

Explores how the history of the Hong Kong–China nexus defies many common assumptions about nationalism, colonialism, and decolonization.

Author Marshall S.

The debates that began at St Mary's Church, Putney on 28 October 1647 pioneered the liberal, democratic settlement in England: a written constitution, universal suffrage, freedom of conscience and equality before the law.

Chong argues that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster sovereignty.

This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Weldon's writings address many of the themes that have preoccupied Canadian political economists over the last thirty years: unemployment, wage controls, inflation, pensions, privatization and social ownership, economic planning, social policy, the means and extent of state intervention, and the rise of neo-conservatism.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII.

Details the effects of political aid in the Middle East by analyzing discursive and professional practices in four key subfields.

A historian’s “revealing and much-needed retelling of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the events that led up to it” (William D.

Straight talk about George W.

The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jeffersons revolution of 1800, the Civil War, and the New Deal.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of October, grouped according to topics.

This book, first published in 2000 is a vivid and accurate rendition of Plato''s classic work of political thought.

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.

This is the "e;everything"e; women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women.

This book argues that basic demographic forces are essential to understanding the rise of Evangelical Republicans and Secular Democrats.

This Element explores the government response to protests in China, and its consequences for the mobilization of collective action.