Political structure and processes

The 2024 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this fourth edition of Elaine Kamarck's Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them.

Asks how the ''parchment'' promises of a written constitution are translated into political practice, working through the many problems of constitutional implementation after adoption.

This book considers how the personal and the professional dimensions are related, and how they matter for aid work.

Neither a work concerned only with her Marxist writings nor a personal biography concerned with her private life, this book examines Rosa Luxemburg's ideas on revolution and democracy and how the two are bound together by her views on the importance of political action.

Adios Muchachos is a candid insider's account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua.

What happened to the Quebec sovereignty movement after 1995?

The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity.

Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality.

In an ideal democracy, representatives would entirely reflect citizens' views, preferences and wishes in their legislative work.

Mit dieser Trilogie bietet Eugen Drewermann eine umfassende Analyse der Entstehung und der Wirksamkeit des kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystems.

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

The work examines how the attitudes and preferences of various Christian groups in the United States can influence U.

The book explores contemporary selfie-taking practices; digital experiences of love, romance and infidelity; sexting rituals; self-tracking habits; strategies used by the Internet famous; and the power of hashtag campaigns and memes in espousing a cause.

The United States has been described as a nation with the soul of a church.

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?

Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society.

This first volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service covers its evolution from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854 to the first years of Mrs Thatcher's government in 1981.

The African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective.

He, Breen, and Allison-Reumann combine qualitative and quantitative research to compare the successes and failures of attempts at federalism in Asian countries.

'A definitive guide, in here you'll find everything you need' S.

Despite the boycott Hamas was subjected to since its victory in the 2006 parliamentary elections, it has become a significant player on the international stage.

Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.

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How institutions shape the American presidencyThis incisive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the institutional sources of presidential power and executive governance, enabling students to think more clearly and systematically about the American presidency at a time when media coverage of the White House is awash in anecdotes and personalities.

In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era paradoxically marked by intensifying globalization and resurgent nationalism.

Eight years apart in age, John F.

After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development.

This collection of original chapters reflects the increasing interest over the past few decades in the relationship between political humor (as a distinct form of political discourse) and a country's culture: Beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and processes that are affected, shaped by, and related to historical experiences, socialization processes, social structure, religion, the economic system, and majority/minority relations.

Long recognized as the authoritative guide for clinicians working with divorcing families, this book presents crucial concepts, strategies, and intervention techniques.

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

Können Religionen überhaupt etwas mit der Politik zu tun haben?

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law.

This study offers an explanation for why advances in women''s rights rarely occur in democratizing states.

This provocative history of early modern Europe puts information and information management at the centre of the period''s many transformations.

This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of transitional justice as an unfinished agenda in Indonesia's democracy.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

This book takes a close look at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging existing claims and answering previously unanswered questions, by considering all of its publicly available decisions, both in its entirety as a body of jurisprudence and on a case-by-case level.