Constitution: Government & The State

Packed with current examples and practical insight, Wilson/Dilulio/Bose/Levendusky's AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES, 17th Edition, ...

Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity....

Initiated in 1978, Chinas reform and opening up is regarded as the greatest economic transformation in the countrys history. By changing the proper...

When Your Rugged Constitution was first published, Harry S Truman was President. It quickly became a go-to resource for generations of young Americ...

FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSOne of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019Shortlisted ...

While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little emp...

This edition of Civil Society and Disarmament explores recent work by the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in support of legal in...

In May 1798, after Congress released the XYZ Affair dispatches to the public, a raucous crowd took to the streets of Philadelphia. Some gathered to...

In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace. In 2020, Donald Trump was impeached. Both were investigated by the FBI, an agency under their control....

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leade...

The only full-scale history of Syngman Rhees (18751965) early career in English was published nearly six decades ago. Now, in The Making of the Fir...

As controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (18221885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the America...

This is a global anthology of great texts in the history of political dissent. Volume 1 spans the ancient and early-modern world, beginning with th...

American government evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth century. The changing character of these institutions is a critical part ...

This publication contains a commentary on the voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible State behaviour from the 2015 report of the United Nation...

This publication explores human rights in the context of constitution making. It notes the important role of participatory processes which should b...

Upon the 2018 death of George H. W. Bush, pundits and politicians mourned the passing of an exemplar of the statesmanship and bipartisan ethos of a...

A classic and bestselling work by one of Americas top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Time...

This book is a unique contribution to the study of democratization in Hong Kong, with chapters including the legal tradition in Hong Kong, the feat...

Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of America's preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wi...

A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous Deep...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how th...

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

Quality Standards for Highly Effective Government, Second Edition establishes a new normal in government that will ultimately reinvent the practice...

In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term constitutional culture to encapsulate the col...

This second edition of the authoritative Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government brings together in one volume some of the best available scho...

What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present...

The Arab Spring was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. T...

The developments of early 2011 changes the political landscape of the Middle East. But even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that aut...

The Arab Spring was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. T...

The developments of early 2011 changes the political landscape of the Middle East. But even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that aut...

From Brown v. Board of Education to Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court has, over the past fifty years, assumed an increasingly controve...

How did the British Government and Civil Service shape the Northern Ireland peace process? What kind of tensions and debates were being played out ...

The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might ha...

Rethinking Democratic Innovation takes a fresh look at diverging visions of improving democratic governance and asks whether these existing tension...

Edition and facing English translation of important Latin text, offering advice for rulers. Sedulius Scottus [fl. ca 850] is an important figure i...

India's recent economic transformation has fascinated scholars, global leaders, and interested observers alike. In 1990, India was a closed economy...

Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international crim...