Constitution: Government & The State

One of the central themes of politics in the 1980s was the rolling back of the state's economic borders, placing greater emphasis on the role of in...

As the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination draws near, the events of that fateful day will undoubtedly be on the minds of man...

Why is Canadian unity important to democratic pluralism worldwide? Democratic pluralism is the ability of different cultural and language communiti...

European integration is progressing at an even more rapid rate. Accompanying this progress is an increasing debate about the institutional shape an...

Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, ...

In eleven provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a wide range of the intellectual, political, military, an...

The eighteenth century's critique of privilege and its commitment to the idea of advancement by merit are widely regarded as sources of modernity. ...

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. T...

Of all the written portraits of the delegates who attended the Federal Convention of 1787, few are as complete and compelling as those penned by Wi...

Recent presidents have responded to the evolving rules of the campaign finance system and the competitive electoral landscape by devoting substanti...

A political scientist who went on to become president, Woodrow Wilson envisioned a "responsible government" in which a strong leader and principled...

For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the...

“American republicans,” notes Forrest McDonald, “regarded selected doctrines of Montesquieu’s as being virtually on par with Holy Writ.” But exactl...

Most scholars and pundits today view Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy as aggressive liberal leaders, while viewing Schlesinger’s famou...

For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the...

The Cold War Presidency: A Documentary History is a must-have reference for students and scholars of this era. This new volume contains an extensiv...

Watching the disastrous response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was like watching "a train wreck in slow motion." Katrina exposed the weakne...

Today the Millennial generation, the cohort born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, is the largest generation in the United States. It exceeds...

With an avalanche of scholarship on the House, it can be tough to balance out coverage in a typical Congress course with appropriate readings on th...

This work addresses the development of congressional practices and institutions and ties the changes to key political and economic events. In conne...

In more than 230 years of statehood, the United States has created its own distinctive way of living and governing--a way which its citizens cheris...

In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-govern...

Throughout their relatively short history, lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace as...

The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world. The debates between the members of the Assembly form th...

These new essays prepared to commemorate the centennial of the National Institute of Social Sciences have been carefully crafted to deal with an ov...

This work addresses the development of congressional practices and institutions and ties the changes to key political and economic events. In conne...

A pioneering historical analysis of the state from a sociological perspective which focuses on the changing nature of political power and the group...

A continuation of Hanes Walton Jr.’s work on Southern Democratic presidents, Remaking the Democratic Party analyzes the congressional and president...

New Scotland, New Society asks a series of vital questions regarding the attitudes and behaviour of the Scots. Are the ties that bind people to eac...

A pioneering historical analysis of the state from a sociological perspective which focuses on the changing nature of political power and the group...

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led ...

The World of the Policy Analyst offers a detailed study of the policy analyst′s role in the policymaking process. By stressing the need of the anal...

Scottish devolution brought high hopes for an open political culture. But how far have these been fulfilled? Open Scotland? argues that in the fi...

The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world. The debates between the members of the Assembly form th...

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led ...

What are Scots' expectations of their new Parliament? What influenced them when they were casting their votes in the first elections? What social p...

How much independence can a small country like Scotland have? Lindsay Paterson argues that throughout the last 300 years the nature of Scottish ind...

Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macr...

This book, first published in 1987, analysed the state and changing nature of political opposition in Western Europe at the time. For each country ...

This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of...

This book explores the impact of cultural identity, the internal configurations of the educational field, and the struggles both inside and outside...