Constitution: government and the state

Maps and explains how and why European integration has become politicised.

This book traces the politics of the Shia in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia since the nineteenth century.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Esquire Best Book of 2017Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets?

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

A comparison of Turkey''s and Egypt''s diverging foreign policies during the Cold War in light of their leaderships'' nation making projects.

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.

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.

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.

Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process.

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

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A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one.

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

In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation.

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

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

The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain.

This book looks at the role Russia''s geography plays in the centralization of state power.

America's founders were gravely aware of the dangers of concentrated power, and intentionally designed a system of separating government powers into the legislative, executive, and judicial.

Presidents are more constrained in exercising unilateral actions than before.

American politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes are often inundated with public-opinion polls.

Conservative plans for a coalition government, a snap General Election, prime ministers considering whether to resign after an electoral or referendum defeat, and the prospect of Labour and Conservative deals with the Liberals, SNP and Northern Ireland Unionist parties, have become dominant features of British politics since 2010, and the hung parliament in June 2017.

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

"e;Clears up some common misconceptions of the CIA .

As "e;market referees"e;, regulators contribute to the delivery of essential public services.

Examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success.

Now with four new chapters that explore Biden's 2020 presidential campaign; his sparring with Trump, both in and out of the debates; and his ultimate election as the 46th president of the United StatesRaised in the working-class towns of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and with lackluster grades in school and no particular goals, Joe Biden shocked the nation in 1972 when he became one of the youngest elected senators in U.

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Featuring original research, this collection celebrates the remarkable career of former Supreme Court President, Brenda Hale.

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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.

How did the Ayatollah Khomeini create his Islamic state?

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.

Chong argues that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster sovereignty.

"e;It was my hope to produce a book that would not only have some historical interest, but would be useful for those in public life, in educational work, in preparation for citizenship, and would be especially a book that parents would wish their children to read.

Sulkin shows that legislators'' campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of their behavior in office.

Matthew Whitaker came to Washington to serve as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and following Sessions's resignation, he was appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States.

As the second chamber of the Westminster parliament, the House of Lords has a central position in British politics.