Constitution: Government & The State

Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitu...

Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American p...

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms  was introduced in 1982. Since then, Canada has experienced more than twenty-five years of constitutional politi...

Dieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious confli...

This book focuses on the Polish Constitution of 1997, concentrating on its structure, its substance and some of the institutional choices made by t...

Conservative plans for a coalition government, a snap General Election, prime ministers considering whether to resign after an electoral or referen...

Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Begin...

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concor...

A presidency unlike any other, Franklin D. Roosevelts legacy in foreign affairs has been contested since the day of his passing. Few presidential s...

In January 1861, Virginia possessed the largest population of enslaved people within the United States. The institution of slavery permeated the st...

In its modern history, Africa has experienced different waves of constitutional ordering. The latest democratisation wave, which began in the 1990s...

One of the earliest and most consequential presidential decisions in American history was George Washingtons choice to step down after two terms in...

Donald Trump's election has forced the United States to reckon with not only the political power of the presidency, but also how he and his support...

Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political wri...

Imagine what its like to effectively organise and develop a political party with over 65 million (65m) members thats bigger than the total populat...

Understanding Trump requires a willingness to study him and learn from him. His principles grow our of five decades of business and celebrity succe...

The 2020 election will be a decisive choice for America. Will the American people choose four more years of President Trump's focus on economic gro...

Presidential Performance in the Progressive Era: Leadership Stylefrom McKinley to Wilson continues Fred I. Greensteins multivolume Presidential Dif...

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposit...

Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field of technology with potentially significant implications for national security. As such, the...

The U.S. government supports a broad range of scientific and engineering research and development (R&D). Its purposes include addressing nation...

This volume in the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson contains the two important parliamentary documents he prepared during his lifelo...

Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. For...

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concor...

A New Statesman Book of the YearA critical analysis of the transformation of constitutionalism from an increasingly irrelevant theory of limited go...

Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political wri...

This selection of articles, published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at Göttingen, opens with studies on his teacher, Percy Er...

This collection of essays to focuses on the critical issue of corruption that lies at the heart of the crisis of constitutionalism in Africa. Most ...