As part of a new series of Greenwood's comprehensive reference guides to the United States Constitution, Professor Durchslag's edition on the Eleventh Amendment's guarantee of state sovereign immunity is the most thorough and up-to-date treatment of that amendment.
This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians in key urban centers.
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.
This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead.
In The Louisiana State Constitution, Lee Hargrave provides a compehensive history and provision-by-provision commentary of the state's current constitution.
A "e;brisk and interesting"e; exploration of exposing misconduct in America-from the Revolutionary War era to the Trump years (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker).
In THE INTERNET AS A GAME, Jill Anne Morris proposes that by defining internet arguments as games, we can analyze ad hominem and ad baculum arguments coming from online mobs and trolls using procedural rhetoric.
After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tennessee, but on the shoulders of a single man: twenty-four-year-old legislator Harry Burn.
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.
While primary elections are most often associated with presidential candidates in the United States, similar methods for selecting party leaders and candidates are becoming increasingly common in parliamentary democracies around the world.
The Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context, and shaped the relationship between (state) sovereignty and (individual) liberty.
The Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context, and shaped the relationship between (state) sovereignty and (individual) liberty.
A study of the rivalry between two American politicians and how it transformed them & the nation they sought to lead in the dark days before the Civil War.
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.
Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy.
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s.
The Gumshoe and the Shrink is a tale of political intriguea detective story and medical mystery set against the backdrop of the closest and most storied presidential election in American history.
Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.
This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.
