Constitution: government and the state

Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.

This book provides a standard to gauge partisan gerrymandering, which increased after the Supreme Court ruled it a non-justiciable issue.

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.

How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life?

Red state vs.

In this book, primary source documents, including Constitutional provisions, federal and state laws, and U.

“Clears up some common misconceptions of the CIA .

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

Plato's Republic is arguably the most famous and influential work of philosophy ever written.

Provides an innovative study of how mixed judicial selection operates to influence judges'' and courts'' decisions.

The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question.

How does the ideal state look like?

This book examines why some rebel groups abuse civilians and factionalize, presenting an inside look at Liberia''s rebels and using innovative quantitative methods.

How do legal professionalism and politics influence efforts to structure the process of selecting and retaining state judges?

This book shows how memories of Mao era suffering drive popular resistance to state power in authoritarian China.

Born to poor tenant farmers in a log cabin in Graves County, Kentucky, Alben Barkley (1877--1956) rose to achieve a national political stature equaled by few of his contemporaries.

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.

Joseph Jones's study focuses on the period since World War I.

Comprehensive overview of the Eurozone crisis from a multidimensional constitutional perspective which incorporates the underlying economic assumptions and developments.

This "e;Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions"e; contains the full text for the constitutions of all important countries of the world.

A comprehensive introduction to the meaning and history of the three key provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment''s first section.

A worthy heir to Alexis de Tocqueville's landmark nineteenth-century analysis of the democratic experiment in the United States, Renaud Lassus's The Revival of Democracy in America is both a brisk, lucid assessment of the nation's current political and social climate and a resounding call for optimism at a moment when the prevailing winds seem to be blowing the other way.

From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the South has exerted an outsized influence on American government and history while being distinctly anti-government.

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.

Take an exclusive look inside the Oval Office?

This book argues that for a nation to become fully democratic, it must strengthen the interactions between its soldiers, politicians, and civilians.

Examines gender in Southeast Asia through cultural constructions of gender, responses to these discourses and the gendering of power.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

In ';grassroots' campaigns, the grass isn't always greenor natural.

The story of the spectacular unravelling of journalism as a profession in Russia in the last thirty years.

This book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization.