Constitution: Government & The State

In this lively, authoritative collection, Thomas J. McInerney presents famous and lesser-known speeches, letters, and other important documents fro...

The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis reve...

Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex. Scholars working in this area have backgrounds in law, religious studies, his...

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Histo...

Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments t...

In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in som...

The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price-a member of the moderate wing of the Re...

Since 2015, Poland's populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been dismantling the major checks and balances of the Polish state and subordinating ...

The 1776 Report is the official report of The President's Advisory 1776 Commission. Submitted to the President and released as a public document on...

Republicans today often ask, “What would Reagan do?” The short answer: probably not what they think. Hero of modern-day conservatives, Ronald Reaga...

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of ...

“A harrowing journey through the corridors of the twenty-first century totalitarianism that goes by the name of progressivism. Must read!”— DINESH ...

The role and powers of nation states are a topic of increasing debate. The transfer of competencies upwards to supra-national organizations, sidewa...

This is the first volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The series focuses on three major aspects of democrati...

This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri;...

Forty years ago, central government was seen as the key actor in the making of public policy. Today, it is often portrayed as a parochial council, ...

Parliamentary and presidential government, exemplified by the United Kingdom and most continental European countries on the one hand and the United...

Democratic design is increasingly seen as the key to crafting stability in the fragile states of the developing world. Getting the democratic insti...

Catherine Alexander charts how Turkish people, both within and outside the state bureaucracy, attempt to personalise the impersonality of the state...

This fascinating and original book is the first to analyse the evolution of internal security policy and external defence policy in Ireland from in...

The role of institutions is to establish the domains of public activity and the rules to select leaders. Democratic regimes organize in simple inst...