Constitution: government and the state

This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity.

This thorough examination of the roots and motivations for U.

Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible.

This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written.

When will dissident members of a Congress successfully seize power from their party leaders and fellow lawmakers?

The United States Circuit Courts of Appeals are among the most important governmental institutions in our society.

This book develops a new political-institutional explanation of South America''s ''two lefts'' and the divergent fates of the region''s democratic regimes.

The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries.

Examines constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs.

This book challenges the convention that government bureaucrats seek secrecy and demonstrates how participatory bureaucracy manages the tension between bureaucratic administration and democratic accountability.

From action flicks to biopics to SNL skits, how presidents are portrayed on screen: “An interesting study of the real presidency and the reel presidency.

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.

Since the election of President Donald Trump, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution-covering presidential incapacity-has been a frequent topic of public discussion.

The Bill of Rights-the first 10 amendments to the U.

Judgement Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution?

With only 54 years of existence, the Constitution of the State of Alaska is in its developmental infancy compared to the constitutional history of the rest of the United States.

Obwohl das politische System der Schweiz als Erfolgsmodell angesehen wird, ist die Detailkenntnis der eidgenössischen politischen Strukturen und Prozesse in den Nachbarländern eher überschaubar.

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 book, primary source documents, including Constitutional provisions, federal and state laws, and U.

In 1924 America passed legislation that effectively outlined which immigrants were to be considered beneficial to the national body and which were not.

When David Souter was nominated by President Bush to the Supreme Court, he cited John Marshall Harlan as his model.

In order to show the potentialities of abrighter future, we must first resuscitate the visions of abetter past.

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint provides a novel justificatory foundation for the principle of freedom of expression.

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.

No province in Canada has codified a written constitution, and whether Quebec should be the first remains a controversial question.

Some people would gnash their teeth at the idea that America was - and can be again - a Christian nation.

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

This book offers a broadly comparative, historical, and quantitative analysis of electorates and party systems in Western and Central Eastern Europe since the nineteenth century.

This book looks at the factors that affect voters'' perceptions of the president, presidential approval ratings, attitudes about Congress, and voter trust toward government.

Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General.

Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.

The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity.

Das Verhältnis der Mitgliedstaaten zur EU erweist sich nach wie vor als das dringendste Problem der europäischen Integration.

Reconstructions is a book about international development and several of its conceptual, theoretical, and some of its practical and behavioural facets.

The debate over internal constitutional change took place at a time when many people were concerned about relations between Great Britain and the self-governing colonies.

Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows.

A majority of states used funding from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) in fiscal year 2017 to entirely or mostly support 7 of 10 major state child care activities.

Ein Buch, das Mut machtDie Menschheit befindet sich in einem gewaltigen Transformationsprozess.