Constitution: Government & The State

By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War...

The British general election of May 2010 delivered the first coalition government since the Second World War. David Cameron and Nick Clegg pledged ...

Who governs Britain? Is Parliament sovereign? Who chooses the Prime Minister? And who enforces the rules?The United Kingdom is in the throes of pol...

In two preceding volumes, Forts Henry and Donelson and Fort Donelsons Legacy, Benjamin Franklin Cooling offered a sweeping portrayal of war and soc...

The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State argues that to preserve our freedom Americans must mount a defense of t...

How the Supreme Courts decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and...

We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the United States Consti...

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instit...

A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was createdwith lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constit...

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation th...

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversyShale gas extractioncommonly known as frackingis often po...

In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human ...

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent d...

The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals...

The Identity of Governments in International Law provides a comprehensive account of the international legal regulation of governmental status. It ...

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instit...

Debate over the meaning and purpose of the grand experiment called the United States has existed since its inception. Alexander Hamilton and James ...

With an engaging visual design, an inexpensive price, and filled with contemporary content, THINK American Government 2012 Edition, 4/e is the Amer...

Minority special status arrangements figure prominently in efforts to articulate universality with territorialized difference in many parts of the ...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...

Few terms in political theory are as overused, and yet as under-theorized, as constitutional revolution. In this book, Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roz...

This book examines the use of presidential power during the War on Terror. Justin DePlato joins the debate on whether the Constitution matters in d...

Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock l...

Exploring the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping, this concise and accessible book, based on over...

This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporat...

Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the ...

A searing manifesto for troubled times in India.India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet...

This volume of original essays, by some of Israels most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible anal...