Constitution: Government & The State

In this fifth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Lee Gregory provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction...

Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri La...

This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements and nonviolent resistance. Bringing together a range of studies focusin...

A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one. Moreover, ...

Tolerance, while proving necessary in today's varied world, can be grudgingly given and resentfully received. Toleration may be necessary, but it h...

The author explores how tribal governments have worked through the constraints of their eroded territory and sovereignty to provide effective leade...

In his piercing introduction to An Economic Interpretation the author wrote that 'whoever leaves economic pressures out of history or out of discus...

In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil se...

Utopias - whether philosophical, literary, or actual experiments - are attempts to solve all social problems. In the wake of the attack on the Worl...

Utopias - whether philosophical, literary, or actual experiments - are attempts to solve all social problems. In the wake of the attack on the Worl...

In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, ...

This is an eye-opening expose, revealing a sometimes funny but more often disturbing world of fanaticism and extremism.

Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's d...

This guide is intended for busy legal practitioners and all other professionals who are involved in the criminal justice system and who require qui...

Challenging dominant assumptions in international relations, Altered States demonstrates that national political institutions change more frequentl...

Business and the State in Contemporary Russia is the most recent volume in the John M. Olin Critical Issues series, published by Westview in conjun...

Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People. Throughout the developed world indigenou...

Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's d...

In 1942, Hugh Borton, then a 39-year-old assistant professor of Japanese history, was called to serve in the State Department. Here he rose rapidly...

Can independent nations unify politically? Amitai Etzioni raised this searching question in his seminal 1965 book, Political Unification: A Compara...

In 1942, Hugh Borton, then a 39-year-old assistant professor of Japanese history, was called to serve in the State Department. Here he rose rapidly...

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a life...

This book covers the development of the presidential office within the context of constitutional interpretations of presidential power and socio-po...

Ukraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their ro...

This book examines how mass media debates have contributed to the politicization of the European Union. The public controversies over the EU’s atte...

Now updated to include the 2014 midterms and preview the coming 2016 election cycle, After Hope and Change provides the most comprehensive and auth...

At the end of the twentieth century, with the economy booming and unemployment at historic lows, the American economy was a job-producing marvel. T...

The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 was hailed by many as a historic event and by some as the end of the Reagan era in American ...

The field of knowledge for development now occupies a top position on the agenda of all Asian governments as well as large development organization...

This book studies the role of the EU in peace and security as a regional actor with global aspirations, in the context of challenged and changing m...

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the pre...

State domination in the non-Western world is hallmarked by its constantly shifting character. This stimulating book develops a new approach to the ...

This new volume shows how state sovereignty is more fluid and contested than is usually appreciated within both conventional and constructivist lit...

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the pre...

In Against Reform, John Pepall offers a stringent critique of proposed reforms to Canada's political institutions. Examining electoral reform, an e...

This book explores highly charged topics that give special meaning to the U.S. Senate's life and culture. They include the decades-long struggles b...

In Against Reform, John Pepall offers a stringent critique of proposed reforms to Canada's political institutions. Examining electoral reform, an e...

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

Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social sc...

The collapse of the Soviet Union would seem to sound the death knell for Marxism as a blueprint for social change. Why has this doctrine - the repo...

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

A novel analysis of the evolution of the states system of Europe since the mid-seventeenth century. Andreas Osiander looks at the four major Euro...

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 ...