Constitution: government and the state

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.

Provides an innovative study of how mixed judicial selection operates to influence judges'' and courts'' decisions.

Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war?

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

In Freedoms Anchor, famed legal commentator Judge Andrew P.

Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them.

Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency.

The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life.

In the fourth of the Federalist Papers, published in 1787, John Jay warned of absolute monarchs who will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it.

This ground-breaking collection of essays outlines and explains the unique development of Latin American jurisprudence.

The United Statesthe worlds great bastion of freedomis sliding toward socialism.

Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice.

Luigi Ferrajoli es sin duda el teórico del derecho que, después de Hans Kelsen y de Norberto Bobbio, mayores energías intelectuales ha dedicado a la reflexión filosófica sobre la democracia.

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kongs political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present.

Sie sind die Elite unter Deutschlands Spezialeinheiten.

Conventional theories of elections hold that an election is analogous to a consumer product market.

The book phenomenon of `Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St.

By advancing ''Jacobinism'' as a historically specific geopolitical economy in world history, this book provides a new reading of the Ottoman and Turkish road to modernity.

The book demonstrates the underappreciated extent and political importance of both positive and negative mass partisan attitudes in Brazil.

Popular interpretations of American government tend to center on the presidency.

This book explains why the United States, a country that values religious freedom, has persecuted some religious minorities while protecting others.

Justice in the U.

This is the "e;everything"e; women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women.

Understanding the impact of constitutional rights in the real world depends on understanding the law of constitutional remedies for their violation.

Approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism.

This remarkable book shatters just about every myth surrounding American government, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers, and offers the clearest warning about the alarming rise of one-man rule in the age of Obama.

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 September, grouped according to topics.

La minimización o la negación del colonialismo -como la negación del genocidio de los armenios, la del holocausto judío o la de las injusticias sistemáticas perpetradas contra los palestinos- se funda en la racionalidad de Occidente que ha impuesto una hegemonía centralizando la historia, impidiendo o limitando la construcción de la memoria de los pueblos vencidos y sometidos y, en nombre de la razón de Estado y de la soberanía, justificando la guerra y el colonialismo mediante el establecimiento del denominado derecho internacional clásico, cuyos principios y normas terminaron legitimando las relaciones políticas de dominación y las relaciones económicas de la dependencia que le dieron origen y estructura al orden global moderno.

The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.

The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay--known collectively as the Federalist Papers--comprise the lens through which we typically view the ideas behind the U.

This Element develops an explanation of how and why all public policy preferences move over time.

This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.

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.

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.