Constitution: government and the state

Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification protocols.

This book demonstrates that politicians'' discussions of race increase policy success and public awareness, improving racial inequality.

Public fire departments in the U.

A fascinating manifesto, proposing that the world should be split into smaller regions to distribute power more evenly.

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.

Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state, arguing against a general theory of the state, and identifying forms of class power crucial to socialist strategy that goes beyond the apparatus of the state.

The book traces the social and political origins of economic policy in India during its high growth phase after 1991.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

David J.

Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public?

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional?

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.

The future of the U.

The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, and torture.

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.

Explores Africa in the late twentieth century, focusing on the logic of political order and the foundations of the state.

political science is for everybody is the first intersectionality-mainstreamed textbook written for introductory political science courses.

Jeffrey E.

If free and fair elections are the heart of our prized democratic system of government, the integrity of our electoral system must be beyond question.

The New Labour government first elected in 1997 had a defining influence on the development of the modern UK constitution.

The book covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of the functioning of federal systems on the African continent.

The first major scholarly defense of the centrality of the Framers'' intentions in constitutional interpretation to appear in years.

Growing political radicalization and polarization in American government has created a scarcity of civilian leadership, knowledge, expertise, and power.

A description of the constitutional rights of women in twelve countries.

This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

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This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about.

Faced with crises that would challenge any president, Barack Obama authorized pay czar Kenneth Feinberg to oversee the $20 billion fund for victims of the BP oil spill and to establishand enforceexecutive pay guidelines for companies that received $700 billion in federal bailout money.

The Canadian federal system is a product of a complex decision taken by the Fathers of Confederation in the 1860s.

In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents.

New from Voices of the Tea Party.

Variously and roundly perceived as gridlocked, incompetent, irresponsible, and corrupt, American government commands less respect and trust today than perhaps at any time in the nation's history.

Executive Privilegecalled the definitive contemporary work on the subject by the Journal of Politicsis widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power.

Resnick, a leading Canadian nationalist, argues that English-Canadian attitudes toward Quebec have changed fundamentally since the November 1988 election.