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  • Rational Choice and British Politics
    Iain Professor McLean
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    109,42 €

  • The British Presidency
    Frances Lesley Foley / Michael Foley
    Makes a compelling argument about the increrased importance of political leaders and the changing style of leadership in Britain and the US. Introduces new concepts and backs them up with a convincing argument about the existence of a British ’presidency’. Completely up-to-date - the first convincing analysis of Tony Blair’s leadership style. Locates the emergence of the New La...
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    32,59 €

  • When Sacred and Secular Mix
    Stephen V Monsma / Stephen V. Monsma / Stephen VMonsma
    Despite Americans’ traditional emphasis on the separation of church and state, both in theory and practice, few are aware of the hundreds of millions of public dollars that flow annually to religiously based nonprofit organizations. Based on a massive nation-wide survey of nearly 800 such groups, Stephen V. Monsma’s important study explores the implications of this financial pa...
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    51,59 €

  • Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy
    Andrew Arato
    Spurred by recent governmental transitions from dictatorships to democratic institutions, this highly original work argues that negotiated civil society-oriented transitions have an affinity for a distinctive method of constitution making- one that accomplishes the radical change of institutions through legal continuity. Arato presents a compelling argument that this is the pre...
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    69,10 €

  • The Other Founders
    Saul Cornell
    Fear of centralized authority is deeply rooted in American history. The struggle over the U.S. Constitution in 1788 pitted the Federalists, supporters of a stronger central government, against the Anti-Federalists, the champions of a more localist vision of politics. But, argues Saul Cornell, while the Federalists may have won the battle over ratification, it is the ideas of th...
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    60,69 €

  • Storm Over the Constitution
    Harry V Jaffa / Harry V. Jaffa / Harry VJaffa
    Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of ’original intent.’ According to legal scholars such as Judge Robert Bork, Lino Gralia, Charles Cooper, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a jurisprudence of original intent requires that judges bring n...
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    64,07 €

  • Between Authority and Liberty
    Marc W. Kruman / Marc WKruman
    In a major reinterpretation of American political thought in the revolutionary era, Marc Kruman explores the process of constitution making in each of the thirteen original states and shows that the framers created a distinctively American science of politics well before the end of the Confederation era. Suspicious of all government power, state constitution makers greatly...
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    54,60 €

  • To Constitute a Nation
    Helen Irving
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    62,71 €

  • The Politics Today companion to the British Constitution
    Colin Pilkington
    This companion to the British Constitution was born out of the view that the tendency for modern political studies to concentrate on processes rather than structures, results in a failure to understand the basic political terminology. Teachers and writers assume a knowledge on the part of others that may well not exist. This means that students coming to politics for the first ...
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    21,29 €

  • Limiting Government
    András Sajó
    Until the previous decade, constitutionalism in Eastern Europe was considered to be an outmoded concept of the nineteenth century. Changes in the region, however, have brought back the fundamental question of the need to restrict government power through social self-binding.This book discusses the mechanisms of such restriction, including different forms of the separation of po...
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    39,03 €

  • Constitutionalizing Globalization
    Daniel J. Elazar / Daniel JElazar
    Constitutionalizing Globalization explores two converging trends: the spread of federalism and federal arrangements around the world, and the globalization taking place on the international scene. Daniel Elazar shows how globalization of the economy and the concern for global human rights bring with them the need for development of a constitutional order that will control both....
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    70,74 €

  • We the Court
    M. P. Maduro / Miguel Poiares Maduro
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    167,56 €

  • New Federalist Papers
    Alan Brinkley
    Today’s political controversies call into question some of the principles that have shaped government through most of this century.New Federalist Papers, written by three constitutional experts, defends the representative democracy put in place by the framers of the Constitution. Like Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, the authors of New Federalist Papers see danger in the effort to d...
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    15,83 €

  • Judicial Activism
    Christopher Wolfe
    In this revised and updated edition of a classic text, one of America’s leading constitutional theorists presents a brief but well-balanced history of judicial review and summarizes the arguments both for and against judicial activism within the context of American democracy. Christopher Wolfe demonstrates how modern courts have used their power to create new 'rights' with fate...
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    60,28 €

  • The Tempting of America
    Robert H. Bork / Robert HBork
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    23,10 €

  • In Defense of Property
    Gottfried Dietze
    In Defense of Property focuses on the importance of private property and its protection throughout history. Emphasizing the connection between property and propriety, Gottfried Dietze shows how the universal appreciation of property functions as an ethical institution, securing happiness under law and order. ...
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    94,31 €

  • Judging the State
    Paula R. Newberg / Paula RNewberg
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    198,67 €

  • The Amendments to the Constitution
    George Anastaplo
    A companion to the widely acclaimed The Constitution of 1787, this new book by eminent constitutional scholar George Anastaplo examines the nature and effects of the twenty-seven amendments to the U.S. Constitution. ...
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    39,84 €

  • CQ’s Guide to the U.S. Constitution
    Ralph Mitchell
    A detailed index to the provisions of the Constitution, plus texts of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are provided, as well as a glossary of terms that helps clarify the terminology used in the Constitution. ...
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    20,25 €

  • The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson
    Garrett Ward Sheldon
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    38,48 €

  • Free Speech in an Open Society
    Rodney A. Smolla / Rodney ASmolla
    This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence. 'Intellectually venturesome. . . '.--'The New York Times Book Review'. ...
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    17,20 €

  • America’s Constitutional Soul
    Harvey Claflin Jr. Mansfield
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    42,13 €

  • Liberal Democracy and Political Science
    James W. Ceaser
    Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that liberal democracy is a compound of two elements not easily wed: constitutionalism...
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    44,72 €

  • The Constitution and the American Presidency
    In this unusual and provocative volume, historians examine the presidencies of Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, F. D. R., and Truman, while political scientists assess the contemporary presidency and suggest a range of reforms, from modest to radical, including fundamental alterations to the balance of power between the presidency and the Congress. ...
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    42,96 €

  • Revolution Within the Revolution
    William Roscoe Estep
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    24,56 €

  • The Presence of the Past
    Sheldon S. Wolin
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    35,63 €

  • The Stuart Constitution
    Published in 1966. The Stuart Constitution at once established itself as the standard documentary textbook for courses in English seventeenth-century history in schools (A-level), polytechnics, and universities, and one which at the same time offered an individual revisionist outlook on many of the problems involved. For the second edition Professor Kenyon has entirely rewritte...
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    111,65 €

  • Forecasting
    William Ascher
    Energy needs...oil supplies...inflation rates...the demand for new homes...in concerns like these, forecasting plays a crucial role. Forecasts not only determine how billions of dollars will be spent by also commit national policies far into the future; yet, no one really knows how to judge the reliability of forecasts. In this innovative study, William Ascher examines the reco...
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    43,42 €

  • Charles Beard and the Constitution
    Robert E. Dr. Brown / Robert EDrBrown
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    16,60 €