Constitution: government and the state

This book analyzes the conflict between two rising powers - direct democracy and the courts.

God and the Founders explains the church-state political philosophies of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

Dynamics of American Political Parties examines the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics.

The Myth of Presidential Representation evaluates the nature of American presidential representation, questioning the commonly held belief that presidents represent the community at large.

This book explains why Algeria''s post-colonial domestic political economy unravelled, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony.

The first ever history of Saudi jihadism, published in 2010, offering a powerful explanation for the rise of Islamist militancy in Saudi Arabia.

In this book David Karol explains important variations in party position change, enhancing our understanding of parties, interest groups, and representation.

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

This book demonstrates that low and uneven voter turnout leads to disadvantages for racial and ethnic minorities and proposes a practical and cost-effective solution.

This book analyzes the conflict between two rising powers - direct democracy and the courts.

The left and right in America are now divided by politically irreconcilable worldviews, and the root of that divide is authoritarianism.

God and the Founders explains the church-state political philosophies of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

Dynamics of American Political Parties examines the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics.

This book examines Pakistan''s troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy.

The Myth of Presidential Representation evaluates the nature of American presidential representation, questioning the commonly held belief that presidents represent the community at large.

This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the US by tracing the development of regulated competition.

This book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country''s past, focusing on historical land dispossessions.

This book reveals how strategic behavior - or its absence - influences the decisions of the Supreme Court and, as a result, American politics and society.

Using income surveys and various political-economic data, this book shows that income inequality is fundamental to the dynamics of US politics.

This book argues that House incumbents have not improved their electoral fortunes in recent decades.

How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain the current American constitutionalism.

The American Congress Reader is a supplement to the American Congress textbook.

This book traces the theory of Quaker constitutionalism from the early Quakers through Founding Father John Dickinson to Martin Luther King, Jr.

This book focuses on the contested meanings of norms in a world of increasing international encounters.

This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico''s current economic and political challenges.

This book looks at how public authority and the state are formed throughout Africa in land struggles and debates over property.

There is long-standing constitutional protection of the right to marry that applies to same-sex couples.

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This book questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of rights-based judicial review by constitutional courts.

Leading scholars explore constitutional themes from both international and European law and theory perspectives.

This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and unapologetic defense.

This book explains the politics behind the design of the US Constitution.

This book explores two basic questions regarding constitutional theory.

This book examines the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab world.

In this excellent new book by Helen Irving, your questions about Australia''s constitution are answered.

In this 2004 book, Harvard law professor Richard H.

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

This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.

This book describes the conceptual, historical and normative features of the electoral constituency.

This book explains the adoption of the US Constitution in terms of what the proponents were trying to accomplish.

This book explores conflict between national and subnational politicians over the formulation of economic policy.

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

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

This book analyses the economics of regional sovereignty movements in the Russian Federation from 1990–1993.

A study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation.

A study of the the royal pardon in Tudor England.

The first systematic historical treatment in English of public law in the later Roman Empire.

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This unique volume traces the history of the state from its beginnings to the present day.

The authors speculate on the relationship between identity and citizenship in Israel.