Constitution: government and the state

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 argues that government action alone will not prevent dangerous climate change, but that private governance can fill the gap.

Tracing the development of originalism, Eric J.

In this book, Verkuil uses his inside perspective on government to examine the increasing impact of private contractors on governance.

Analyzes the effectiveness of the earned income tax credit in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can be improved.

This book challenges the notion of presidents being the sole steward of American interests through an examination of a range of policies.

What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017.

The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jeffersons revolution of 1800, the Civil War, and the New Deal.

This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia''s experience under Putin.

Après l’échec du projet de constitution européenne, faut-il renoncer ?

Depuis plus de deux siècles, le fédéralisme donne la preuve que des personnes peuvent vivre ensemble sans sacrifier leur diversité.

The Constitution states that "e;"e;no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States,"e;"e; yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie.

This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the first and most established regional organization initiated by China.

The first full-length study of the historic 2006 immigrant rights protests in the US, in which millions of Latinos participated.

Government is under enormous pressure to change.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

An introductory survey of the government's role in America's continuing drive for equality.

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.

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

The lives and careers of Sir Charles Stewart and his brother Lord Castlereagh take in a grand stage, from Britain and Ireland to the kingdoms and empires of western and central Europe.

Reveals how Supreme Court justices'' personalities, particularly conscientiousness, influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution.

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

Föderalismus und Demokratie sind für uns selbstverständliche Merkmale deutscher Gegenwartspolitik.

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

Menachem Mautner offers a compelling account of Israeli law as a site for the struggle over the shaping of Israeli culture.

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

The last two decades have witnessed an exponential growth in debates on the use of foreign law by courts.

This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases.

A worthy heir to Alexis de Tocqueville's landmark nineteenth-century analysis of the democratic experiment in the United States, Renaud Lassus's The Revival of Democracy in America is both a brisk, lucid assessment of the nation's current political and social climate and a resounding call for optimism at a moment when the prevailing winds seem to be blowing the other way.

Reveals how the U.

A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.

In Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom, Andrew E.

Analyzes the effectiveness of the earned income tax credit in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can be improved.

Drawing on original data, this book is the first account of popular understandings of political ethics in contemporary British politics.

The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years.

Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this two-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians.

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.

Assesses the function, successes of and challenges for the EU''s Common Security and Defence Policy.

A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).