Constitution: government and the state

This book provides an account and explanation of a fundamental dilemma facing secular states: the 'legitimacy gap' left by the withdrawal of religion as a source of legitimacy.

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 March, grouped according to topics.

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.

How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror .

Students in state and local politics courses frequently have low levels of prior knowledge about the topic and even lower levels of engagement.

Demonstrates how party elites influence candidate decisions and shape the outcomes of primary elections for House and Senate.

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 December, grouped according to topics.

This book explains why Algeria''s post-colonial domestic political economy unravelled, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony.

While exercising its power to review the constitutionality of governmental action, the Supreme Court has relied on certain "e;methods"e; or "e;modes"e; of interpretation - that is, ways of figuring out a particular meaning of provision within the Constitution.

Money and politics in an election that broke the moldBeginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level.

I have an Article II, Donald Trump has announced, citing the US Constitution, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.

Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety affects the news we consume, who we trust, and what public policies we support.

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

Students in state and local politics courses frequently have low levels of prior knowledge about the topic and even lower levels of engagement.

William Tudor, Willard Phillips, and Richard Henry Dana were not their fathers' Federalists.

An insightful, often humorous look at how Washington works, or doesn'tThe title ?

In William Howard Tafts Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J.

Leading political scientists analyze how Congress tackles - and fails to tackle - national challenges, from health care to immigration.

The GCC is a major player in the post-2011 reordering of the Middle East.

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

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means.

This book explores how global capitalism has reconfigured state-market relations, and how interactions among capital, labor and consumption threaten global democracy.

The second volume of Burns’s acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations.

A young soul trapped in an old body.

The military was the key political institution in early twentieth-century Turkey.

The framers of the U.

"e;Makes a compelling case that the best protection for individual rights (and wallets) in America rests in divided government.

How and why did Kenya''s transitional justice efforts fail, and what does this say about the persistence of the past?

In Supreme Bias, Christina L.

In this compelling study, which unites the fields of constitutional theory and comparative politics, John E.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

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

Explores the possibilities of constitutionalism from diverse theoretical and comparative perspectives, particularly those from outside liberal and Anglo-European paradigms.

This book traces the developing relationship between Canada and the oas (Organization of American States) and the pau (Pan American Union) before Canada's accession to full membership in the former organization in 1989.

Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day.

There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W.

This book develops a theory of presidential public leadership taking into account the partisan nature of the political debate and the role of presidents.

Das Amt des Bundeskanzlers prägt in besonderer Weise das deutsche Regierungssystem.

The first comprehensive, authoritative study of the political, economic and social forces which led to Brexit and its likely consequences.

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

While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s, the neighbouring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.