A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making.
The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer.
Uncle Sam's Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poorand what Americans must do to stop it.
This fifth volume in the George Mason Lecture Series analyzes contemporary separation of powers in the American political system and offers answers to the following questions: what is the relationship, if any, of American separation of powers to the older concept of mixed government?
Conventional wisdom emerging from China and other autocracies claims that single-party legislatures and elections are mutually beneficial for citizens and autocrats.
Popular perception holds that presidents act "e;first and alone,"e; resorting to unilateral orders to promote an agenda and head off unfavorable legislation.
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.
Women are riding out the recession more easily than men, with a lower unemployment rate and a higher percentage attaining high school diplomas and Bachelor and Master degrees.
In only one year, Obama has saddled Americans with a skyrocketing deficit that will leave future generations deeply in debt; a health-care plan that prescribes a cure worse than the illness; catastrophically expensive environmental schemes; and a foreign policy that appeases enemies and punishes friends.
Some of today's most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, commissioned by the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Culture, both at the University of Arkansas.
Navigate the Intricacies of Government with ConfidenceHave you ever scratched your head wondering why the government is so complex, or how on earth it seems to be dragging its feet every time a decision needs to be made?
The United States military has evolved from a tiny and distrusted institution at the margins of government into a central element of America and American power, yet the military is sometimes hard to comprehend because of its unique language, history, and culture.
What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017.
Set within the context of growing political pluralism and the increasing use of new communication technologies for social mobilisation, the Institute of Policy Studies organised a national conference on civil society in November 2013.
Thrilling and informative guide to the life and death of JFKIdeal for fans of In Cold Blood and Oliver Stone's JFKRevised and expanded version of DiEugenio's original bookTwenty years ago, before the ages of Obama and Trump, James DiEugenio wrote the first edition of Destiny Betrayed.
En Teoria politica e historia constitucional, Claudio Contreras sigue una linea de investigacion que inicio con su tesis doctoral defendida en la Universidad Nacional de Plata.
