Constitution: government and the state

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.

An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings.

Tracks power, privilege, and processes of community trust building in digitized media ecologies, focusing on public dialogues about racial inequality.

This introduction to public policy applies analytic models to key policymaking challenges, enabling students to independently evaluate core dilemmas.

An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings.

When a person is not recognised as a citizen anywhere, they are typically referred to as 'stateless'.

Can religion help societies achieve peace and stability?

This book presents an account of the adoption of electoral reforms democratizing electoral practices in nineteenth century European countries.

A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincolns political thought, Michael Zuckerts A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincolns political ideology, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor.

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

The First Amendment guarantee that "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"e; rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths.

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

In this timely book, edited from a manuscript left unfinished at his death, one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars presents his prescription for constitutional change.

Millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, watched in horror as the Challenger shuttle capsule exploded on live television on January 28, 1986.

A comprehensive introduction to the meaning and history of the three key provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment''s first section.

The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that "e;"e;iron triangles"e;"e; operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members of Congress, all presumably with a stake in preserving regulation that protected the industries from competition.

This book explores the extent to which contemporary international law expects states to take into account the interests of others - namely third states or their citizens - when they form and implement their policies, negotiate agreements, and generally conduct their relations with other states.

Problems of regionalism have not received much attention from historians, who have been primarily concerned with central Canada.

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

This book provides the first systematic account of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 and its aftermath using a contentious politics framework.

Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013The United States Senate has fallen on hard times.

This first retrospective following Grant's death examines the significance of his major work, Lament For a Nation.

This book reveals how strategic behavior - or its absence - influences the decisions of the Supreme Court and, as a result, American politics and society.

Fachleute aus Politik, Medien und Wissenschaft konstatieren seit Jahren, dass die Anzahl geeigneter Kandidierender für das Bürgermeisteramt in Baden-Württemberg stetig abnehme.

Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Krieg unterzeichnete die Trump-Regierung im Februar 2020 ein Abkommen mit den Taliban, wonach die Truppen der USA und ihrer NATO-Verbundeten Afghanistan innerhalb der nachsten Monate verlassen mussen.

Conventional wisdom emerging from China and other autocracies claims that single-party legislatures and elections are mutually beneficial for citizens and autocrats.

This book shows how police and politicians in Latin America informally regulate drug markets using corruption and violence.

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

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017As Sir John A.

Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.

What kind of a country is Canada beyond Quebec?

In this book, HP Lee explores how the separation of powers doctrine in Malaysia has been adversely affected by a number of major constitutional conflicts among the various important organs of government.

Using six original surveys, this work challenges conventional understandings of Russia''s politics and economics through an analysis of property battles.

Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - with seismic consequences for the politics and constitution of Britain.

This unique volume traces the history of the state from its beginnings to the present day.

The Canadian system of federalism divides the power to govern between the central federal parliament and the provincial and territorial legislative assemblies.

Why did hundreds of Democratic strongholds break for Donald Trump in 2016 and stay loyal to him in 2020?

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations.

Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations.

This account of the machinations following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, and their damaging effects, is “a gripping tale of insider Washington” (The Boston Globe).

A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

All the fundamentals.

This book uses a multi-method approach to challenge the notion that financial markets exert a broad influence over economic policy making in emerging economies.