Constitution: Government & The State

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...

Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states—how they form, what sustains them, why they fail—this study of subaltern social groups in the ...

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that gov...

In this provocative and passionate book, Dan Russell outlines the history of Aboriginal self-government in Canada. He compares it to that of the Un...

Ratifying the Republic explains how the United States Constitution made the transition from a very divisive proposal to a consensually legitimate f...

Japan and China did not begin to emerge as unified political entities until the nineteenth century. Yet scholars and politicians persistently refer...

The way humanity governs itself is today changing very rapidly. Profound transformations in structures of political authority are underway in Europ...

Canada’s history of intense constitutional debate is often depicted as a source of national embarrassment – a diversion from more sensible endeavou...

This book analyses the formulation, interpretation and implementation of sharia in Pakistan and its relationship with the Pakistani state whilst ad...

The Sovereignty Revolution is the late Senator Alan Cranston's analysis of the problems created by our current conception of sovereignty, "with eve...

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