Constitution: government and the state

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

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.

“1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White’s famous The Making of the President, 1960.

An engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues.

Constitutional law provides the legal framework for the Australian political and legal systems, and thus touches almost every aspect of Australian life.

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600.

Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

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

Evaluates the pressures, both institutional and territorial, that Brexit exerts on both the United Kingdom and Irish constitutional orders.

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 May, grouped according to topics.

The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police.

An exploration of the strategies that both governments and insurgents employed in the liberation wars in Iraqi Kurdistan and South Sudan.

Examines gender in Southeast Asia through cultural constructions of gender, responses to these discourses and the gendering of power.

In the spirit of Glenn Beck’s Original Argument comes a lively manifesto on the need to recover the original meaning of the Constitution.

Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.

How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American historyAmerican governance is burdened by a paradox.

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The environment figures prominently in American political debate of the twentieth century.

Provides the first comparative look into executive decree authority.

Provides a coherent way to think about the intersection of religious practice and taxes.

From campus protests to the Congress floor, the central feature of contemporary American politics is ideological polarization.

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

This book makes a realpolitik argument for supporting democracy in the Arab world, drawing on four decades of policy experience.

Reclaiming Constitutionalism articulates an argument for why the constitutional phenomenon remains attached to the state despite the recent advent of theories of global constitutionalism.

This set of fifteen volumes under the title International Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions, Commentaries and Laws provides readers with a complete guide to the commentaries on individual constitutions and respective constitutional amendments of all major nations of the world, their constitutions, and the constitutional laws.

Places constitutional law in its legal, historical and political context using contemporary examples.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) and is focused on government operations and international affairs.

Stonecash analyzes election results arguing that the separation of presidential and House results occurring from the 1960s to 1980 was a party-driven process.

This book examines how Putin''s Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.

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

An unbiased examination of profiling in the criminal justice system-one of the most hotly contested public policy issues-on the streets, in the courts, and in the jails and prisons of America.

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All forward thrust and hot-damn urgencyA brilliant, brawling epic.

The British referendum on the membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016 was a cataclysmic event in British and European politics.

Examines the demographic shifts in the Middle East and North Africa, placing them in their social, political and economic contexts.

This highly influential anti-Machiavellian text is an important primary source for the understanding of early modern political thought.

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God and the Founders explains the church-state political philosophies of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Athenische Demokratie im Zeitalter des Demosthenes" verfügbar.

The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization.

This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.