Constitution: Government & The State

America is turning away from support for democrats in Arab countries in favor of 'pragmatic' deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremis...

In recent years a series of crises have erupted on the European Union's eastern borders. Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent conflict ...

What does the US Constitution mean for you?One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the US Constit...

In recent years a series of crises have erupted on the European Union's eastern borders. Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent conflict ...

'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect ...

By examining the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, Joseph Sassoon portrays life under these regimes and explores the mechanisms u...

Congress is frequently said to be 'broken', 'dysfunctional', and 'weak', but how does the contemporary Congress really work? Does Congress have the...

The ninth edition of this respected textbook provides a fresh perspective and a crisp introduction to congressional politics. Informed by the autho...

The Iraq War of March 19, 2003 was an implausible war at the outset. We now understand that it could have been averted and never should have been w...

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Res...

This book places the 2010 elections in Florida in historical context and offers insight into and an explanation for the substantial gains made by t...

In Part One, the uses of divine revelation in the Western world are reviewed by recalling authors that include Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, ...

A new reading of The Prince, arguing that the classic text is neither a scientific treatise on politics nor a patriotic tract but rather an artful,...

Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of it where people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an...

Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group...

In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, co...

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Time...

*Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize 2022* In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertili...

The Civic Education Crisis: How We Got Here, What We Must Do is a call to action, an effort to save our republic through better civic education. Am...

To a large extent, elite politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen hold the fortunes of their societies in their hands. This edited volume describe...

Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such dece...

The FLOTUS Effect emphasizes the import of agency on the part of Michelle Obama in relation to her politics as evidenced in her positionality and p...