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The processes of constitutional change in America are particularly difficult to understand because of the constant interaction between the constitutional document of 1787 and the wider set of understandings and practices surrounding that document.

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Challenging those who accept or advocate executive supremacy in American foreign-policy making, this book proposes that we abandon the supine roles often assigned our legislative and judicial branches in that field.

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The reliance on state declarations of rights to expand rights protections during the last two decades has highlighted the political importance of state constitutions.

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Explores questions ranging from the nature of creating the US Constitution to the philosophy behind amending it. This collection brings together 14 essays that consider the meaning of having a constitution, the implications of choices in the design of constitutions, and the meaning of judicial supremacy in the interpretation of the Constitution.

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Labour's reforms of the UK's constitutional arrangements promise an overhaul of the constitution. A conference was held Cambridge University to discuss the legal and practical implications of the reforms. Papers given are reproduced in this volume.

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This volume has been written specifically for students of the U.S. system of government, and for students interested in federalism in practice.

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This guide to over 1500 recent books and journal articles deals broadly with current affairs in Canada. The bibliography is organised around 14 topics, focusing on the major themes involved in the study of Canadian politics.

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This volume is a study of the orchestration of cordial concurrence at the quadrennial nominating conventions of the two major political parties.

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This volume is a study of the orchestration of cordial concurrence at the quadrennial nominating conventions of the two major political parties.

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With this translation, one of the classics of German historical literature becomes available in English. In Weltburgertum und Nationalstaat the eminent historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the transition in Germany from eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism to nineteenth-century nationalism, and to clarify the genetic history of the German

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This easy-to-use handbook presents a fascinating and fresh take on American presidential elections and makes a wide range of statistics available to serious researchers and political fanatics alike.

Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections isn't your typical history book about presidential elections.

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This examination of the role of gender stereotyping in media coverage of executive elections uses nine case studies from around the world to provide a unique comparative perspective.

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In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989.

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Focuses on the procedural problems of our electoral system, including those posed by the computerization of voting systems. This work analyzes events in the electoral history of the US to reveal particular dynamics of democratic electoral systems that permit purportedly free and fair elections to subvert rather than express the public will.

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They also investigate ways in which national or state governments can be involved as high units in decentralization processes, but show that decentralization can involve local governments, neighborhoods, businesses, or even individuals as the lower or decentral units.

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Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustase), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941.

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In an exploration of mass voter alignments in Great Britain, Kenneth D. Wald illuminates the electoral consequences of major social divisions and the relationship between social structure and partisanship. He establishes that the transition from religion to social class as the chief influence on British voting occurred after World War I, as most sc

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In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.S. history, Cruel and Unusual Punishment stands out as a levelheaded, even-handed, and thorough analysis of the issue.

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The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.

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The turbulent period of renewal and innovation that followed Russia's crushing defeat in the Crimea has been interpreted, historically, in terms of the emancipation of the serfs and the evolution of the gentry class. But, contends Frederick Starr, such an approach underestimates the breadth and intensity of the impulse for local reforms per se. Aft