Constitution: government and the state

This book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

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

Over time the presidential election of 1964 has come to be seen as a generational shift, a defining moment in which Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future.

This Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its military posture over the last three decades.

This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenges of social difference across Pan-Asia.

This book explores some of the most glaring misunderstandings about the U.

This book provides a standard to gauge partisan gerrymandering, which increased after the Supreme Court ruled it a non-justiciable issue.

Im Sommer 1999 zog die Regierung von Bonn nach Berlin.

New from Voices of the Tea Party.

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

The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth.

For more than two centuries the idea of the nation-state has been widespread.

Constitutionalism under Stress reflects on comparative constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe through the work of eminent constitutional scholar Wojciech Sadurski.

Engel examines changing politicians'' perceptions of the threat posed by opposition and how it influenced manipulations of judicial authority.

This book examines Japan and Korea''s post-World War II constitutional history to challenge enduring assumptions about the nature of constitution-making.

In this firsthand account, David Bernhardt, 53rd Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, describes how he witnessed firsthand the administrative state's transformation from a collection of departments under the command of the President into a sprawling and unaccountable bureaucracy.

The Bush Administration has notoriously argued that detainees at Guantanamo do not enjoy constitutional rights because they are held outside American borders.

Israel is a modern state whose institutions were clearly shaped by an ideological movement.

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi-the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita.

Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate.

This book is a critical look at how courts, legal scholars, and the academic culture mischaracterize and misunderstand religious beliefs.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the European Union''s many crisis management capacities and explains their origins.

A study that maps India''s political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular.

Government is under enormous pressure to change.

This Element evaluates the shifting relationship between the state, society, and markets in North Korea in an authoritarian context.

Seeking Equality compares economic inequality in the United States and Canada.

This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from the models of Supreme Court decision making.

In recent years, a more active and aggressive Congress has often sharply disagreed with the president over the ends and means of American foreign policy.

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years.

With an introduction that traces the long constitutional history of Florida, Talbot D'Alemberte provides a thorough understanding of Florida's state constitutional history.

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerce clause doctrine.

The Washington State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

The Scottish independence question is one of the pivotal questions facing British politics and the future of the United Kingdom.

This book studies representation in Chinese local congresses, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and quantitative surveys of congressmen and women.

Tracking trends in American public opinion, this study examines moods of public policy over time.