Constitution: Government & The State

Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the struct...

The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American hist...

'Exhilarating' Financial Times 'Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling' Literary Review 'A profound meditation on how and why democra...

The Crown in Canada, the institution of constitutional monarchy, for decades neglected or considered an irrelevant colonial relic, is now the objec...

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hi...

“America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy”—John Quincy Adams’s famous words are often quoted to justify noninterference in other n...

This thorough examination of the roots and motivations for U.S. national security space policy provides an essential foundation for considering cur...

Canada's public policy underwent significant changes through the course of the twentieth century - from the creation of a protected national market...

An analysis of current trends in Quebec society and politics and the future of Quebec in the Canadian federation.

This volume--the fifth in a series providing key documents for the constitutional history of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the twelfth c...

Nine well-known authors associated with the world federalist movement critique the 1995 Report of the Commission on Global Governance entitled Our ...

China’s constitution explicitly refers to its sovereign domain as “sacred territory.” Why does an avowedly secular state make such a claim, and wha...

China’s constitution explicitly refers to its sovereign domain as “sacred territory.” Why does an avowedly secular state make such a claim, and wha...

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social an...

Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies. Post-modernist wr...

Richard Cooper (Harvard) examines government, markets, and citizens in the millennium; Mark Zacher (UBC), Ronald McKinnon (Stanford), and Sylvia Os...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This book is an unprecedented synthesis of the literature on state development that explains how and why the contours of the British state have cha...

This is an accessible yet challenging introduction to the state and state theory, the author makes the distinction between "state" and "government"...

This collection, which will total between 300 and 500 letters from Americans of all walks of life, will become an important piece of history as it ...