Constitution: Government & The State

Law is a fast globalizing field and many lawyers, judges, and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative 'borrowing'. But this new f...

A groundbreaking new study based on extensive and original data that examines court policies and proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic to uncove...

A groundbreaking new study based on extensive and original data that examines court policies and proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic to uncove...

In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government...

It wasn't long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court...

The corruption of public officials in the United States and its corrosive impact on public policy, political stability and democratic institutions,...

Protecting Your Freedoms in Todays Cultural Warfare In America, the seeds of tyranny have taken rootand were reaching critical tipping points on ma...

Former Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city a...

'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prin...

This beautiful hardcover volume contains the two documents every American and citizen of the world should read: the complete text of the Declaratio...

The ambition of the Scottish Government is to create a wealthier and fairer nation. Following the devolution acts of 1998, 2012 and 2016, it has ex...

This book traces the roots of modern-day Kashmir and the role of Sheikh Abdullah in its making. As the most influential political figurehead in twe...

This title was first published in 2002. The Imperial Republic addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the conce...

The War on Terror has been going on for over a decade and it shows no signs of winding down in near future, a war which has directly contributed to...

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

With a strong focus on constitutional law, this book examines the legal as well as the political power of 'the people' in constitutional democracie...

The book traces the political struggles of politicians and ministry officials, judges and academics for a European Union from the Hague European Co...

Once viewed as an environmental hazard to the planet, East Asia is now at the forefront of pro-environmental policymaking. The region's progress ha...

An analysis of selective aspects of Indias constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of...

In the past few years, constitutional courts have been presented with new challenges. The world financial crisis, the new wave of terrorism, mass m...

Originally published in 1997, South Africa: The Battle over the Constitution analyses rivaling positions in the South African constitutional debate...

Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have ...

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Cent...

Two decades since the enactment of South Africas present constitution, the durability and endurance of past inequalities and injustices illustrate ...

First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book d...

This title was first published in 2002. The Imperial Republic addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the conce...

A timely history of the profound impact of Earl Warren's Supreme Court on many areas of modern American government and society From 1953 to 1969, ...