Political structure and processes

It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions.

The 526 documents printed in this volume run from 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814.

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

How partisan balance between the U.

Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational.

The Judge as Political Theorist examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review.

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy.

In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists.

The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics.

Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently bloody.

The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam.

Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide.

Since the 2000 presidential election, the United States has been embroiled in debates about electronic voting.

In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today.

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system.

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

The future of the U.

Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote.

Was George W.

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens critically examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization.

The combustible mix of race and religion in American historyReligion has been a powerful political force throughout American history.

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states.

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on.

The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns.

A leading historian reveals the radical origins of humanity's most cherished secular valuesDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality-these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases.

When does democracy work well, and why?

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600.

When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "e;substantive due process"e; embodied by the Constitution.

Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment.

Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies.

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations.

What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi?

The presidency of George W.

Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated.

We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion.

The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts.

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

Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose and meaning of human life.

Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought.

Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters.

Democracy is overrated.

Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities?