Constitution: Government & The State

Civil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational lif...

The freedoms of speech and religion assumed a sacrosanct space in American notions of civil liberty. But it was not until the twentieth century tha...

In the 225 years since the United States Constitution was first drafted, no single book has addressed the key questions of what constitutions are d...

This volume covers the nature and operation of different organs of the constitution. It includes documents dealing with Parliament; the monarchy; t...

This volume considers the UK as a state that was both internally differentiated and placed a premium on its external relations and world power. It ...

Reynolds brings together the leading scholars to discuss the successes and failures of constitutional design. Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz de...

Elections have always been an integral part of post-independence African politics and have assumed utmost importance in the course of recent democr...

The impact of public opinion on criminal justice policy is the highly topical theme of Lord Windlesham's third volume of Responses to Crime. Like t...

This volume explores constitutional reform, and in particular expansions in the franchise. It presents evidence covering the origins of these trans...

This is the second volume in a two-volume series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of i...

From the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, several government reform movements succeeded in controlling traditional types of public corrup...

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and...

In the increasingly questioning world of the 1990s, the role of the monarchy in a democracy is again coming under scrutiny. Its critics argue that ...

The modern European state, defined by a continuous territory with a distinct borderline and complete external sovereignty, by the monopoly of every...

This timely and important new work takes a critical look at government in the American states and illustrates the disconnect between state governme...

Sovereignty is among the most important phenomena for making sense of political life. But there are many mistaken assumptions associated with the c...

Sovereignty is among the most important phenomena for making sense of political life. But there are many mistaken assumptions associated with the c...

This important book provides the first systematic assessment of the so-called Norway Model, suggested as an off-the-shelf option for the UK to ‘squ...

This volume covers the interaction of society – the people, groups and organisations that made it up – with the constitution. It includes documents...