Politics and Government

In 2014, Congress for the first time provided the President with authority and funds to overtly train and lethally equip vetted members of the Syri...

Ireland was once viewed as the sick man'''' of Europe, but over the course of a generation, it was transformed into the home of the Celtic Tiger'''...

Legislative oversight is most commonly conducted through congressional budget, authorisation, appropriations, confirmation, and investigative proce...

Since the 1980s, Guatemala, the most populous country in Central America with a population just over 14 million, has continued its transition from ...

Few families have influenced America like the Roosevelts--two presidents from different parties, including our longest-serving chief executive, ...

Acclaimed for the scholarship of its prominent authors and the clarity of its narrative, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES sets the st...

In 1840s Rhode Island, the states seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively di...

John Murphys Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for ...

After a tumultuous few months that have seen an election-winning prime minister replaced as leader by Australia's first woman prime minister, many ...

Social policy reflects the dominant social, economic and political discourses of a nation's government and reveals how each country addresses the n...

The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 to 960 BCE) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great dis...

Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more...