Constitution: government and the state

The book provides a comprehensive assessment of current African-American education policy and its politics.

The idea of the separation of powers is still popular in much political and constitutional discourse, though its meaning for the modern state remains unclear and contested.

In diesem Standardwerk zu Demokratietheorien ordnen verschiedene Autor*innen Ausschnitte aus Originaltexten historisch ein.

The first examination of the impact of reforms intended to promote government transparency and increase public participation in China.

The political theory of the Irish Constitution considers Irish constitutional law and the Irish constitutional tradition from the perspective of Republican theory.

This book shows that powerful hereditary chiefs do not undermine democracy in Africa but, on some level, facilitate it.

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

A constitutional order is a system of systems.

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.

Concern about the integrity of American elections did not start with Trump's election; flaws in procedures have gradually grown during recent decades.

For George H.

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 English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest.

A ground-breaking new study of China''s development paradox - predicated on informal and ambiguous institutions - through property and resources.

This work will provide an authoritative and illuminating overview of the U.

If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality is the longest running war in American history.

Does the president represent the entire nation?

This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution.

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India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward from its bestselling predecessor, India That Is Bharat.

Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.

Contributors include Ignatius Ayua Akaayar (Nigeria), Raoul Blindenbacher (Switzerland), Dakas C.

Providing a comprehensive view of the constitutional architecture of federations, contributors address change and development in federal states from the standpoint of constitutional revision and reform.

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward.

Money and politics in an election that broke the moldBeginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level.

Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

This book examines how Putin''s Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.

Americas greatest days are yet to come.

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

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';How can the immigrant of yesterday be lionized as the very foundation of the nation's character, while the immigrant of today is often demonized as a threat to the nation's safety and stability?

This book analyses the fraught history and politics of the Stability and Growth Pact from its origins to the present economic crisis.

From 1951 to 1971, Tom Kent was successively Assistant Editor of The Economist; Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, confidant, adviser, and speechwriter to Opposition Leader Lester B.

This book seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life.

The debate over 'renewing' Canadian federalism in response to the 'Quiet Revolution' in Quebec and the more recent economic demands of English-speaking provinces forms part of a great response to the challenging problem of rebuilding the federal system and the Canadian constitution in an attempt to meet new cultural, social, and economic demands.

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

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s “immensely readable” history of the United States from FDR’s election to the final days of the Cold War (Publishers Weekly).

This book provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution.

In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule.

This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.

The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts.

The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries.

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