Constitution: Government & The State

In this timely and provocative volume, some of the world's leading political and constitutional theorists come together to debate Michael Sandel's ...

Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy A Study of `The Constitutional Code'

"In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democraci...

In constitutional theory the convention of individual ministerial responsibility ensures the accountability of ministers to Parliament. In practice...

This book provides the first detailed examination of the Attlee government's rejection of British participation in the Schuman Plan in 1950, which ...

This book is the first to draw together the various strands of Irish national security policy and practice in a single chronological study, from in...

Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relat...

This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and ...

Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relat...

Zionism and the Creation of a New Society is the history of the development of the Jewish State from the early idea of Jewish nationalism. Ranging ...

William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history...

This is the first thorough examination of what has become an intensely relevant contemporary issue. Beginning with an account of the basic premises...

In 1787, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote The Federalist to rally support for the ratification of the Constitution of the Unit...

The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political ef...

Presidential term limits restrict the maximum length of time that presidents can serve in office. They stipulate the length of term the presidents ...

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...

This text studies the attitudes of the founding "fathers" toward slavery. Specifically, it examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his ...