Constitution: government and the state

Examining how the White House works or doesn't before and after TrumpDonald Trump has reinvented the presidency, transforming it from a well-oiled if sometimes cumbersome institution into what has often seemed to be a one-man show.

Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner.

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century's first such political movement in the Middle East.

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.

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

An insightful, often humorous look at how Washington works, or doesn'tThe title ?

Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens.

Providing a kaleidoscope of resources and entries on the people, places, and events that coalesced into the American Revolution, this guide offers a concise introduction to one of the most famous revolutions ever fought.

Presidential campaigns are our national conversations - the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas.

Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner.

Pay-to-Play Politics examines money and politics from different angles to understand a central paradox of American democracy: why, when the public and politicians decry money as the worst aspect of American politics, are there so few signs of change?

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.

What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?

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The Imperiled Presidency: Presidential Leadership in the 21st Century calls for a dramatic re-evaluation of the American president's role within the separation of powers system.

With its blend of accessible writing and actual excerpts from Court opinions, this book serves to explain the legal and cultural underpinnings of landmark U.

This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the many legal cases in which he was involved.

This book explores some of the most glaring misunderstandings about the U.

What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?

Offering a unique resource for students, scholars, and citizens, this work fully explains all of the 21 enumerated powers of the U.

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.

The Bill of Rights-the first 10 amendments to the U.

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An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings.

This is the "e;everything"e; women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women.

This book provides evaluations of American presidents over the course of 66 years of U.

Offering a unique resource for students, scholars, and citizens, this work fully explains all of the 21 enumerated powers of the U.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

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).

An Introduction to Political Science in Nigeria attempts to fill the void in the literature for undergraduate and graduate students in the Third World, particularly Nigeria, that are studying the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and law.

This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama's foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments.

Habermas's Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of Juergen Habermas's social and political theory from the 1950s to the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, his global academic bestseller, which has been translated into 30 languages.

In this new perspective, Iran's quest for nuclear power-in the context of the global energy challenge and the Cold War-era nuclear arms race-takes on new dimension.

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an ?

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.

The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

A demonstration of how the negatives of power-sharing accords all-too-often outweigh the positivesPower-sharing pacts are a key tool for resolving wide-ranging violent conflicts, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and with a particular concentration in sub-Saharan Africa.

An unbiased examination of profiling in the criminal justice system-one of the most hotly contested public policy issues-on the streets, in the courts, and in the jails and prisons of America.

This volume uses essential and illuminating primary documents as a portal for understanding the evolution and present parameters of presidential power, the relationship between America's three branches of government, and why wartime often leads presidents to claim expansive powers and authority.

This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects.

Justice in the U.

The Imperiled Presidency: Presidential Leadership in the 21st Century calls for a dramatic re-evaluation of the American president's role within the separation of powers system.

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

Presidential campaigns are our national conversations - the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas.

In 1787, the American union was in disarray.

Providing a kaleidoscope of resources and entries on the people, places, and events that coalesced into the American Revolution, this guide offers a concise introduction to one of the most famous revolutions ever fought.