Constitution: government and the state

From one of America’s most distinguished constitutional scholars, an intriguing exploration of America’s most famous political tract and its relevance to today’s politics In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America’s most famous political tract.

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.

Offers a pioneering study of state-making, religion, and development in contemporary Pakistan and its northern frontier.

In this 2004 book, Harvard law professor Richard H.

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history.

In his ground-breaking book, the leading political philosopher Russell Hardin develops a new theory of liberal constitutional democracy.

Discover a fascinating and novel look at the U.

Drawing on long-term fieldwork in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book studies the war-time social processes during the civil war and their long-term legacy on the constitution of Nepali society.

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

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

Is Bipartisanship Dead?

Fisher and Fox demonstrate how ordinary people experienced the foreclosure crisis and how lenders and public institutions failed to protect them.

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

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie die Schweiz – genauer: das politische System, die materielle und formelle Verfassung – in den Werken einiger prominenter, klassischer wie moderner, Staatstheorien vom 18.

Mit dem E-Government-Gesetz (EGovG BW) schuf das Land Baden-Württemberg im Jahr 2015 die gesetzliche Grundlage für die Förderung der elektronischen Verwaltung in den Behörden des Landes, den Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbänden sowie den sonstigen der Aufsicht des Landes unterstehenden juristischen Personen des öffentlichen Rechts.

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.

The twin concepts of liberty and the free market have been instrumental in shaping American identity.

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 February, grouped according to topics.

Lankina traces the origins of Russia''s inequalities over the past two centuries from the Tsarist institution of estates, through communism, to the present day.

The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers.

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

It is safe to say that a sizeable majority of the world's population would agree with the proposition that that property rights are important for political and social stability as well as economic growth.

Constitutional scholar George Anastaplo believes that many judges and lawyers draw upon a skimpy, if not simply unreliable, knowledge of history.

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

A cross-country examination of authoritarianism and democracy in North Africa and the Middle East.

The European Union: Dilemmas of Regional Integration is a readable, informative volume for students and instructors of introductory and intermediate courses in international relations and comparative politics.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America.

This book examines the "e;constitutional faith"e; that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "e;civil religion.

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

Whether newly-freed slaves could be trusted to own firearms was in great dispute in 1866, and the ramifications of this issue reverberate in today's gun-control debate.

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

A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making.

Over the last two decades the development of the 'third sector' has been underpinned by principles of independence and autonomy,regulation and accountability and patronage through partnership.

Some of today's most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, commissioned by the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Culture, both at the University of Arkansas.

Documents the struggle of the European Commission to maintain its autonomy in a complex institutional setting and adverse political environment.

The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 17892020, Expanded Second Edition is a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics.

This book questions the theoretical assumptions of sovereignty and offers new ways to move the critiques of this subject forward.

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups.

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day.

The first ever history of Saudi jihadism, published in 2010, offering a powerful explanation for the rise of Islamist militancy in Saudi Arabia.