Constitution: government and the state Books
The University of Alabama Press The Rise of Constitutional Government in the
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The University of Alabama Press The Presidency and Public Policy The Four Arenas of Presidential Power
Book SynopsisSpitzer's classic study of presidential power, The Presidency and Public Policy examines the annual domestic legislative programs of US presidents from 1954-1974 to show how and in what ways the characteristics of their proposals affected their success in dealing with Congress (success being defined as Congress's passing the presidents' legislative proposals in the forms offered).
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The University of Alabama Press A Presidential Civil Service FDRs Liaison Office for Personnel Management Public Admin Criticism and Creativity
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt's Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of the contemporary executive-focused civil service.Trade ReviewMordecai Lee's A Presidential Civil Service stands out as a substantive contribution to the field of public administration's historical understanding of the nation's current civil service system and its "executive-centric" approach to managing career federal employees." - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory"A careful examination of a heretofore obscure topic that deserves attention from public administration scholars. Recommended." - CHOICE"Lee's deep knowledge, style, scholarship, and mastery of detail make him one of very best historians of US public administration. This is and will remain the definitive study of the origin of the US Presidential Liaison Office for Personnel Management and the long run-up to the establishment of the present-day US Office of Personnel Management. There is much more here about public administration than the establishment and development of the Liaison Office itself, however. Many of the arguments about merit versus management in A Presidential Civil Service continue to animate civil service reform today." - David H. Rosenbloom, author of Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999"An impressive work of scholarship, A Presidential Civil Service synthesizes a vast amount of archival research. Lee's extensive use of primary sources not only bolsters his findings but also adds color and depth to the story. His most important contribution is his challenge of conventional interpretations of the Brownlow report and its aftermath. Until now, attention has been focused on the report itself and on FDR's failure to gain congressional approval of its central elements. Lee makes a strong case that, in fact, FDR managed to achieve his key purpose of centralized control over federal personnel policy with the creation of the Liaison Office for Personnel Management." - James Thompson, associate professor of public administration, University of Illinois-ChicagoTable of Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Origins of the Idea of a Presidential Personnel Agency, 1913-1936 2. The Political Battle over Creating a Presidential Personnel Agency, 1937-1939 3. FDR Constructs a Personnel Management Apparatus, 1939 4. The Liaison Office for Personnel Management in Operation, 1939-1941 5. The Liaison Office for Personnel Management in World War II, 1942-1945 6. From the Liaison Office for Personnel Management to a Full-Fledged Presidential Personnel Agency, 1945-1979 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal
Book SynopsisThe third edition of this renowned English-language guide to German constitutional law has been fully updated and significantly expanded to incorporate previously omitted topics and recent decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court.Trade Review"In the endeavor to gain knowledge from the problems confronted and resolutions reached by our counterparts abroad, the work of Donald P. Kommers, now joined by Russell A. Miller, is a rich resource. Offering far more than excellent English-language translations of the decisions of a renowned tribunal, Professors Kommers and Miller supply incisive analyses and commentary. I am pleased to herald the publication of this third edition of a masterful text. . . . Brought right up to the moment . . . The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany is an engaging, enlightening, indispensable source for those seeking to learn from the text and context of German constitutional jurisprudence."—From the foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, the Supreme Court of the United States"The constitutional law of Germany—and the judgments of the German Federal Constitutional Court—are central for anyone interested in comparative constitutional law. This book is an excellent introduction to German constitutional thinking. It makes one better understand one's own constitution and its problems. I have relied heavily on the previous editions. This latest one is essential."—Aharon Barak, former President, the Supreme Court of Israel"This is the single most important book in English on one of the world's most important courts. More than a hornbook because it includes smartly edited cases, and more than a casebook because it adds outstanding institutional, historical, and doctrinal context, this volume provides a first-rate introduction to the German Federal Constitutional Court, which has been among the most influential courts in the world in creating global constitutional law. With this volume, English-speaking readers can see why."—Kim Lane Scheppele, Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University"With new coauthor Russell A. Miller, Donald P. Kommers delivers a thoroughly updated and, in some respects, reorganized work, which gives needed attention both to constitutional amendments (as in the chapter on federalism) and to conceptual developments in the Constitutional Court's jurisprudence. The authors' evident familiarity with German and U.S. constitutional law deepens the book's comparative perspective. This has been and will remain an indispensable resource for scholars and students who want to develop a deep understanding of Germany's constitutional system."—Vicki C. Jackson, author of Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational EraTable of ContentsForeword to the Third Edition / Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg xi Preface to the Third Edition xiii Acknowledgments xvii Note on Translations and Judicial Opinions xxi Abbreviations xxv Part I. German Constitutionalism 1. The Federal Constitutional Court 3 Origin 4 Jurisdiction 10 Institution 17 Process 25 Judicial Review in Operation 33 Conclusion 40 2. Basic Law and Its Interpretation 42 New Constitutionalism of the Basic Law 43 Nature of the Polity 48 Theories of the Constitution 55 Theory of Basic Rights 59 Interpretive Modes and Techniques 62 Sources of Interpretation 70 Conclusion 75 Part II. Constitutional Structures and Relationships 3. Federalism 79 Territorial Organization 80 Doctrine of Federal Comity 90 Apportionment and Distribution of Revenue 95 Local Self-Government 104 Bundesrat, Reformstau, and Modern Federalism 110 Division of Legislative Power 120 Cooperative Federalism 138 Implementation of Federal Law 141 Conclusion 150 4. Separation of Powers 152 Executive-Legislative Relations 153 Judicial versus Legislative Authority 164 Delegation of Legislative Power 175 Foreign and Military Affairs 189 Conclusion 214 5. Political Representation and Democracy 216 Parliamentary Democracy 216 Elections and Voting 238 Party State and Political Spending 269 Militant Democracy 285 Conclusion 300 6. Jurisprudence of the Open State 302 Basic Law and International Law 302 Germany's Constitutional Openness and International Tribunals 319 Basic Law and European Law 325 Conclusion 352 Part III. Basic Rights and Liberties 7. Human Dignity, Personal Liberty, and Equality 355 Dignity of Persons 356 Right to Life 373 Right to Personality 399 Equality 419 Conclusion 439 8. Freedom of Speech, Press, and Art 441 A Jurisprudence of Balancing 442 Reputational Interests and Offensive Speech 460 Resocialization, Privacy, Truth-Telling, and Assembly 479 Freedom of the Press and Broadcasting 502 Artistic and Academic Freedom 519 Conclusion 536 9. Religion, Conscience, and Family Rights 538 Free Exercise of Religion 539 Minority Religions 553 Religious Practices and Symbols in Public Schools 566 Taxation, Autonomy, and Religious Societies 590 Marriage and Family Rights 600 Conclusion 620 10. Economic Liberties and the Social State 622 Nature of the Economic System 623 Right to Property 630 Occupational and Associational Rights 659 Reunification and Economic Liberties 685 Conclusion 711 Appendix A: Chronological Chart of the Justices 713 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Presidents and Vice Presidents 717 Notes 725 Tables of Cases 833 Index Permissions 845
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University of Pittsburgh Press Researching the Presidency Vital Questions New Approaches Pitt Series in Policy Institutional Studies Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies
Book SynopsisThis collection views the recruitment and selection of presidential candidates, presidential personality, advisory networks, policy making, evaluations of presidents, and comparative analysis of chief executives.Trade ReviewProbably the best book ever written on the subject-an instant classic."" - David Canon, University of Wisconsin
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University of Pittsburgh Press Between The Branches The White House Office of Legislative Affairs White House Office of Leglislative Affairs Pitt Series in Policy Institutional Studies
Book SynopsisKenneth Collier traces the evolution of the methods the White House has developed to influence Congress over nine adminstrations.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Pennsylvania Constitutional Development
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1960, this work remains the seminal study of the development of Pennsylvania's constitution.
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Fordham University Press Law and Revolution in South Africa
Book SynopsisThe relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.Trade Review"Partly focusing on South Africa as a case study, Cornell considers the challenge of reconstructing a government after the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships." - Law & Social Inquiry, Journal of the American Bar Foundation "This book is a rare one-the reflections on philosophy, law, and political theory are profound and moving. Rather than reproduce the multiple stages of debate surrounding transitional justice - reconciliation vs. forgiveness, memory vs. forgetting- the author shifts the question toward what she calls 'substantive revolution.' This marks an advance in discussions of reconciliation and political life after massive, sustained spasms of violence. When one adds to that a significant dose of philosophy and critical theory - from Heidegger through contemporary political philosophers - the book takes on a new thread in theorizing transition and gives it real complexity. Substantive revolution is deepened by critical theory, critical theory is deepened by engagement with the concrete work of substantive revolution." -- -John Drabinski Amherst College "Law & Revolution in South Africa continues Drucilla Cornell's path breaking work on indigenous law formation in post-apartheid South Africa. The essays collected here add to her evolving approach to fundamental ideas of law, politics, and ethics as informing uBuntu, living customary law, and dignity jurisprudence in South Africa. This book bears directly on the vibrant ongoing debate in South Africa about how to restore societal respect for law in light of its gross misappropriation during the many decades of abuse by colonialist and racist control of the country and the accompanying gruesome suppression of the native population. This is a fascinating debate that should be of interest to all those concerned with achieving legitimacy for the institutions and procedures of legality following a transition to constitutional democracy, and especially the extent to which values embedded in customary legal traditions can be used by courts in wrestling with sensitive legal disputes from morally reconstructive perspectives." -- -Richard Falk Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Transitional Justice Versus Substantive Revolution Should Critical Theory Remain Revolutionary? 2. Is Technology a Fatal Destiny? The Relevance of Heidegger for South Africa and for All "Developing" Countries 3. Socialism or Radical Democratic Politics? On Laclau and Mouffe The Legal Challenge of uBuntu 4. Dignity Violated: Rethinking AZAPO Through uBuntu 5. Which Law, Whose Humanity? The Significance of Policulturalism in the Global South 6. The Significance of the Living Customary Law for an Understanding of Law: Does Custom Allow for a Woman to Be Hosi? The Struggle over uBuntu 7. uBuntu, Pluralism, and the Responsibility of Legal Academics to the New South Africa 8. Rethinking Ethical Feminism Through uBuntu 9. Is There a Difference that Makes a Difference Between Dignity and uBuntu? 10. Where Dignity Ends and uBuntu Begins - A Response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stu Woolman Conclusion: uBuntu and Subaltern Legality Notes Index
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University of Hawai'i Press Leveraging Sovereignty
Book SynopsisExamines the leadership of Hawai’i’s longest reigning monarch, King Kamehameha III. The book highlights the early 1840s, when Kauikeaouli secured recognition from the United States, Britain, and France that he ruled over an independent and sovereign Hawaiian state.
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Ohio University Press Populist Seduction in Latin America
Book SynopsisIs Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy?Trade Review“The first edition of this book was everything one could hope for in an academic book: it was insightful and illustrated with lively and in-depth examples of real politics. The same is true for the revised and expanded second edition. This is a book that all scholars of Latin America should read… . It is a rare book in that it is theoretically important, and excellent for classroom use.” * Bulletin of Latin American Research *For anyone wishing a succinct and theoretically sophisticated concept-building analysis of populist rhetoric and leadership style based on a fascinating lesser-known case study, this book should be on your shelf. * Latin American Research Review *“This highly recommended book argues persuasively that populism generates forms of political inclusion for marginalized sectors of the society, yet does so in ways that endanger individual liberties.” * Choice *“In this substantially expanded edition, Carlos de la Torre extends his insightful analysis of Latin American populism in general, and Ecuadorian populism in particular, to the current government of Rafael Correa. He skillfully demonstrates the ambiguities of populist experiences, which combine political mass involvement and top-down control, and hover between authoritarianism and democracy. An excellent book!” * author of The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies *
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Harvard University Press Kistiakovsky
Book SynopsisKistiakovsky railed against Lenin's concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution and advocated a government based on respect for human rights and constitutional federalism. Heuman shows the fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky's ideas as countries of the former Soviet Union seek to establish precisely those values that he put forth 90 years ago.Trade Review[Heuman's] lucid scholarly account places [Kistiakovsky] firmly in his social and intellectual context, and provides a fascinating picture of the complex intermingling of diverse currents of thought in the early twentieth-century Russian Empire. -- Maureen Perrie * English Historical Review *
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding
Book SynopsisThis innovative Handbook offers a new perspective on the cutting-edge conceptual advances that have shaped â and continue to shape â the field of intervention and statebuilding.Trade Review‘Starting from the premise that international statebuilding efforts over the past three decades have relied on flawed theoretical assumptions and failed to achieve many of their objectives, this Handbook is a cornucopia of critical analyses and perspectives. With an emphasis on peace and conflict, it encompasses a wide array of international interventions where statebuilding is a component, like peacebuilding, military intervention, counterinsurgency, security sector reform, civilian protection, transitional justice, development and humanitarian action.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding: moving beyond the current orthodoxy 1 Nicolas Lemay-Hébert 2 Intervention and statebuilding beyond the human 10 David Chandler 3 Knowledge, expertise and the politics of intervention and statebuilding 19 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Roland Kostić 4 Post-conflict reconstruction, the local, and the Indigenous 30 Elisa Randazzo 5 Data in the context of intervention and statebuilding 41 Isabel Rocha de Siqueira 6 The ambiguity of statebuilding 50 Florian P. Kühn 7 International statebuilding interventions and the politics of scale 61 Shahar Hameiri and Fabio Scarpello 8 Intervening in a diverse world: revisiting the ‘problem’ of difference in international statebuilding 71 Pol Bargués-Pedreny and Xavier Mathieu 9 Decolonial ‘interventions’? Potentials and challenges of decolonial perspectives 82 Philipp Lottholz 10 Democracy promotion and statebuilding 93 Sonja Grimm 11 Post-conflict statebuilding as contentious politics 104 Outi Donovan 12 State formation in the context of hybrid political orders 113 Volker Boege 13 The everyday politics of international intervention 124 Janosch Neil Kullenberg 14 Non-state actors, service delivery and statebuilding 137 Claire Mcloughlin 15 Clear, hold, build … a ‘local’ state: counterinsurgency and territorial orders in Somalia 151 Louise Wiuff Moe 16 International political sociology of interventions 161 Médéric Martin-Mazé 17 From international justice and statebuilding to international justice as statebuilding 175 Sara Dezalay 18 Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding 184 Catherine Baker and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik 19 Civilian protection in the context of interventions 198 Cecilia Jacob 20 The spatial dimensions of statebuilding 210 Annika Björkdahl and Stefanie Kappler 21 The temporal dimension in the study of interventions 220 Róisín Read and Roger Mac Ginty 22 Statebuilding and narrative 231 Josefin Graef and Raquel da Silva 23 Myths and the international politics of intervention and statebuilding 240 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Catherine Goetze 24 Cyber security: states, development and intervention 249 Kristan Stoddart 25 The plain drone, the armed drone and human security 260 Astri Suhrke 26 New forms of intervention: the case of humanitarian refugee biometrics 270 Katja Lindskov Jacobsen 27 Transnational environmental crime: from securitization to intervention and statebuilding 282 Lorraine Elliott 28 The aid bunker: security risk management in conflict zones 294 Florian Weigand 29 From gendered war to gendered peace? Feminist perspectives on international intervention in sites of conflict 303 Maria O’Reilly 30 Romanticising the locals and the externals? Identifying challenges to a gendered SSR 314 Nina Wilén 31 The political economy of gender and peacebuilding 323 Yasmin Chilmeran and Jacqui True Index 339
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Republican Global Constitutionalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Steven Slaughter’s book moves from a dissection of the problems facing our globalized world, through a critique of existing initiatives and institutions, to a neo-republican argument for an array of plausible, concrete proposals. It is a theoretically persuasive, empirically informed study, deserving of attention in the public square and the corridors of power as well as in the seminar room.’ -- Philip Pettit, L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values, Princeton University, US‘Steven Slaughter offers a compelling argument for seeking a middle path to a better international politics. It is a path that aims to avoid what he sees as the too-totalizing control of a full world government, and the ineffectiveness of most attempts at robust global governance. His alternative, Republican Global Constitutionalism, emphasizes the evolution of treaty-based, constitution-like governance in some aspects of international politics, and especially the roles that an active “global citizenry” could play in advancing and transforming global cooperation. This book is highly recommended for those seeking a sophisticated but accessible entry into dialogues on the transformation and/or surpassing of the liberal international order.’ -- Luis Cabrera, Griffith University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Republican Global Constitutionalism 1. International law and organisations 2. Informal global governance 3. Transnational activism and civil society 4. The republican critique of global governance 5. Republican global constitutionalism Conclusion: rebuilding globalisation Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Constitutional Precedent in US Supreme Court
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Schultz offers a timely book on the importance, history, and uses of legal precedent, especially in Supreme Court cases. This book is especially timely because Schultz uses the Supreme Court nominations of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to discuss the shift in precedent during the Roberts Court, especially regarding Roe v Wade prior to its post-publication overturning in June 2022. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates and general readers.’ -- T.T. Gibson, CHOICE‘Students and scholars alike will find a trove of materials on how the US Supreme Court has treated its own precedents over the past 230 years. Never has this been more important than today, as a newly empowered conservative majority is poised to reconsider the rulings of the past.’ -- Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley, US‘The book clearly explains genesis and the role of legal precedent in the construction of American law. What is extremely interesting, that David Schulz in a very convenient way shows us how the precedents are set, how they are modified, and what is a role of judges, especially of chief justices, for the ideology and the content of the court’s decisions.’ -- Dalia Vasarienė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania and The Supreme Court of LithuaniaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The nature of legal precedent in American law 1. Jay to Vinson Courts 2. The Warren Court 3. The Burger Court 4. The Rehnquist Court 5.The Roberts Court Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Rethinking the Separation of Powers
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd State Theory and the Law
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is a timely book that takes a fresh look at an old concept: the state! The original approach chosen by Thomas Vesting consists in a new theory of the state that is focused on its cognitive and cultural meaning. It builds a bridge between legal and political sciences and sheds new light on the knowledge base of both state and society. It rewrites the history of the state and reconfigures the conception of the state of the network society.’ -- Karl-Heinz Ladeur, University of Hamburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The state and state theory 2. The model of liberal democracy 3. The state’s monopoly on the use of force: the early modern territorial state 4. The self-organization of society: the constitutional state 5. Expanding the mission of the state: the welfare state 6. Building order from fragments: the network state 7. Looking forward: the enduring significance of the state in the age of globalization Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Republican Global Constitutionalism
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Anarchy State and Utopia
Book SynopsisAnarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick's highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianismconsidered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century. Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick's complex masterpiece Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick's theory of free market libertarianism Enables a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophy Indicates where Nozick's theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where there are loose ends with further work to be done Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi 1 Nozick’s Introduction and Preface 1 2 Ethical Bearings 9 3 The Experience Machine 40 4 Why State of Nature Theory? 54 5 The Invisible Hand and the Justification of the State 70 6 Risk, Fear, and Procedural Rights 85 7 Has the Dominant Protective Association Become a State? 125 8 Distributive Justice 154 9 The Search for Utopia 200 Index 000
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Constitutional History
Book SynopsisAmerican Constitutional History presents a concise introduction to the constitutional developments that have taken place over the past 225 years, treating trends from history, law, and political science. Presents readers with a brief and accessible introduction to more than two centuries of U.S. constitutional history Explores constitutional history chronologically, breaking U.S. history into five distinct periods Reveals the full sweep of constitutional changes through a focus on issues relating to economic developments, civil rights and civil liberties, and executive power Reflects the evolution of constitutional changes all the way up to the conclusion of the June 2015 Supreme Court term Trade Review'First, the book is in a format that is readable. Second, the topics the book covers are arranged in such a manner that the reader gains insights into the historical developments that impacted the Constitution s evolution. And third, many students majoring in American politics focus on the legislative and executive branches, ignoring in large measure the critical role the judiciary had and has in American politics. This book fills that void and should be read by all students interested in a deeper understanding of American politics.' - M. DeRosa, Florida Atlantic University in CHOICE March 2017Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Prologue xiii Structure of the Book xvii Part 1 The New Republic, 1781–1828 1 John Locke, Deism, and Religious Liberty 5 1 Ideological Origins of the New Republic 9 The Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention 10 Ratification and the Bill of Rights 21 2 Representative and Constitutional Democracy 28 Judicial Review, Judicial Duty 31 Economic Policy in the New Republic 35 3 Nationalization of the Constitution and Executive Power 45 Part 2 The Slave Republic, 1789–1877 53 Constitutional Amendments 56 4 Commerce, Nullification, and Slavery 59 Other Economic Rulings 60 The Nullification Controversy 62 Dred Scott 65 5 Civil War and Reconstruction 70 Lincoln and War 71 Reconstruction 78 6 Rights and Privileges 84 Privileges and Immunities 86 Women’s Rights 89 Persecution of Newly Freed Slaves 91 Part 3 The Free Market Republic, 1877–1937 95 Constitutional Amendments 96 7 The Development of Substantive Due Process 99 Procedural Due Process 100 Substantive Due Process 101 Restraint of Trade in the Free Market Era 105 Liberty of Contract 107 Regulating Industry 111 The Great Depression 113 8 Civil Rights After Reconstruction 115 Equality and African‐Americans 115 Parents and Educational Rights 123 The Right to be Let Alone 125 9 The Re‐emergence of Executive Power 126 Leadership and the Presidency 126 America and World War I 128 Criminal Anarchy and Criminal Syndicalism in the 1920s 137 Part 4 The Welfare State Republic, 1937–1995 143 Constitutional Amendments 144 10 Advocates and Enemies of Social Welfare 147 The Court Changes 149 New Social Welfare Programs 153 11 The Growth of Civil Liberties 154 Free Expression 154 Free Press 158 Religious Establishments 160 Criminal Suspects and Capital Punishment 164 Privacy 167 12 The Civil Rights Movement 172 School Desegregation 172 Civil and Voting Rights 175 Strict Scrutiny and Affirmative Action in Higher Education 177 Affirmative Action in Government Contracts 181 Women’s Rights and Affirmative Action 182 13 Expanding Presidential Power 186 Presidential Power and Japanese Internments 187 Military Tribunals 191 Vietnam and its Aftermath 192 Re‐emergence of a Powerful Executive 195 Part 5 The Contemporary Republic, 1995–2013 199 14 Federal Commerce Power and Economic Regulation 201 Narrowing Federal Commerce Power 202 Health‐care Reform 205 15 Rights, Liberties, and Judicial Doctrines 209 Affirmative Action and Education 209 Campaign Finance 212 The Right to Bear Arms 213 Capital Punishment 216 The Right to Privacy 218 Religious Establishments 220 16 Executive Authority and Terrorism 224 Protecting America in an Era of Terrorism 224 Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 229 Executive Power Under Barack Obama 233 Epilogue 239 Government and the Economy 241 Government and Individual and Civil Rights 243 Executive Power 254 A Republic if you can Keep it 257 Bibliography 260 Prologue 261 Part 1: The New Republic, 1781–1828 262 Part 2: The Slave Republic, 1789–1877 263 Part 3: The Free Market Republic, 1877–1937 263 Part 4: The Welfare State Republic, 1937–1995 264 Part 5: The Contemporary Republic, 1995–2013 265 Epilogue 267 Index 268
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of the State
Book SynopsisThis innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of the state. Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the state. Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world. Trade Review"[Sharma and Gupta] have compiled a timely, useful and dense collection of classical and more recent texts that cover the field, as I know it, pretty well." (Critique of Anthropology, 2009) "The volume presents an innovative and greatly needed introduction to an interdisciplinary research programme between anthropology and political science." (Discourse & Society, February 2008) "[This) volume's refreshing theoretical approach and range of empirical examples should make it a valuable teaching and reference book for all those concerned with the challenging questions posed by the state." (Political Studies Review)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Organization of the Book. Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization. Part I: Theoretical Maps: The “Classics”. Section Introduction. 1. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation): Louis Althusser. 2. Selections from the Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci. 3. Bureaucracy: Max Weber. 4. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State: Philip Abrams. 5. Governmentality: Michel Foucault. 6. Governing “Advanced” Liberal Democracies: Nikolas Rose. Part II: Ethnographic Mappings. Section I: Bureaucracy/Governmentality. 7. Finding the Man in the State: Wendy Brown. 8. Society, Economy, and the State Effect: Timothy Mitchell. 9. Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State: Akhil Gupta. Section II: Development/Planning. 10. Cities, People, and Language: James Scott. 11. The Anti-Politics Machine: Jim Ferguson. Section III: Welfare/Warfare/Law/Citizenship. 12. The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community: Ananya Bhattarcharjee. 13. Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics: Susan Bibler Coutin. 14. Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis: Catherine Lutz. Section IV: Popular Culture. 15. Popular Culture and the State: Stuart Hall. 16. The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony: Achille Mbembe. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of the State
Book SynopsisThis innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of the state. Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the state. Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world. Trade Review"[This) volume's refreshing theoretical approach and range of empirical examples should make it a valuable teaching and reference book for all those concerned with the challenging questions posed by the state." Political Studies Review “This is a nuanced, original framework for thinking about the state as a highly variable phenomenon of emergent world orders. With its expert selection of readings and comprehensive analysis, this volume is bound to become a standard reference and popular teaching tool.” George Marcus, University of California, Irvine “The Anthropology of the State will be an important resource for teaching and for introducing students to new questions in anthropology. This collection offers a nice balance of historical and contemporary writings and a lucid introduction that advances theoretical claims about the state with the help of ethnographic examples. Contemporary globalization and transnational systems that are redefining the functions of the state make this an opportune moment for a serious reexamination of the processes of governance.” Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University “One key strength of the volume is its coherence and intertextuality…Recommended.” K. Brown, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Organization of the Book. Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization. Part I: Theoretical Maps: The “Classics”. Section Introduction. 1. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation): Louis Althusser. 2. Selections from the Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci. 3. Bureaucracy: Max Weber. 4. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State: Philip Abrams. 5. Governmentality: Michel Foucault. 6. Governing “Advanced” Liberal Democracies: Nikolas Rose. Part II: Ethnographic Mappings. Section I: Bureaucracy/Governmentality. 7. Finding the Man in the State: Wendy Brown. 8. Society, Economy, and the State Effect: Timothy Mitchell. 9. Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State: Akhil Gupta. Section II: Development/Planning. 10. Cities, People, and Language: James Scott. 11. The Anti-Politics Machine: Jim Ferguson. Section III: Welfare/Warfare/Law/Citizenship. 12. The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community: Ananya Bhattarcharjee. 13. Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics: Susan Bibler Coutin. 14. Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis: Catherine Lutz. Section IV: Popular Culture. 15. Popular Culture and the State: Stuart Hall. 16. The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony: Achille Mbembe. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Restating the State
Book SynopsisIn his essay The end of laissez--faire, Keynes distinguished between the agenda and the non--agenda of government. This book asks how we interpret that distinction today. aeo A ground--breaking collection concerned with rethinking the contemporary role of the state. aeo Comprises essays written by leading scholars and politicians.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright. 2. The Rationale of the Minimal State: Norman Barry. 3. Neo-liberalism and the Theory of the State: From Wohlfahrtsstaat to Rechtsstaat: Raymond Plant. 4. Re-Stating Politics, Re-Politicising the State: Neo-liberalism, Economic Imperatives and the Rise of the Competition State: Colin Hay. 5. False Friend: The State and the Public Demain: David Marquand. 6. Leviathan Life: David Walker. 7. The State and the Market: John Kay. 8. Creating the Public Good: Charles Leadbeater. 9. The State and Innovations in Economic Governance: Colin Crouch. 10. New Localism, Progressive Politics and Democracy: Gerry Stoker. 11. Back to the Centre? Rebuilding the State: B. Guy Peters. 12. Reclaiming ‘The Public’ Through the People: Hilary Wainwright.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Torture and State Violence in the United States
Book SynopsisS.Trade ReviewTorture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of DocumentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic2. Slavery and the Frontier3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police5. The War on TerrorConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Justice Dissent and the Sublime
Book SynopsisCanuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism, queer theory, and animal studies.Trade ReviewArticulated by a careful, sensitive, and provocative writer, this critique is refreshing and valuable. -- Robert Barsky Review 19 Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime remains instructive in its portrayal of the various ways that theories inevitably relapse back into what they attempt to undo. In addition, interspersed throughout the chapters, Canuel offers convincing and powerful readings of major romantic texts. -- Luke Donahue Modern Philology Mark Canuel's provocative, lucid, and intelligent Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime challenges the dominant critical trend in the discourse of the sublime. The Year's Work in English Studies Subtly written, thought-provoking. -- Steve Vine Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beautiful People2. Justic and the Romantic Sublime3. The Reparative Impulse4. Biopolitics and the Sublime5. Aesthetics and Animal TheoryNotesIndex
£40.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Contested Conventions
Book SynopsisContested Conventions is a cohesive and compelling account of the defining issues that led to the establishment of the Constitution; it should appeal to history students and scholars alike.Trade ReviewThis informative study will fit in collections dealing with the birth of the nation at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The writing style is such that it should also appeal to a general readership. This work deserves to be in the libraries of all four-year institutions. Highly recomended. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroductionAbbreviations Used in the NotesPart OneThe Critical Period of American History1. A Union of Large and Small States2. A Union with SlaveholdersPart TwoStacking the Deck3. Massachusetts and the First Nine States4. Virginia Matters5. New York Joins the Union6. North Carolina, the Bill of Rights, and the Madisonian ExchangeEpilogueAppendixesA. The Perils of OriginalismB. Constitutional Convention: Attendance by StatesC. Chronology of RatificationIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Seizing Power
Book SynopsisIn addition, Singh identifies three distinct types of coup dynamics, each with a different probability of success, based on where within the organization each coup originated: coups from top military officers, coups from the middle ranks, and mutinous coups from low-level soldiers.Trade ReviewSingh's book is an informative read-even if you're not planning a coup. Washington Post A powerful book on military coups. Singh's argument is convincing and straightforward... Impressive. This reviewer would not be surprised if Seizing Power quickly establishes itself as a must-read for students of coups and military politics in the years to come. Perspectives on Politics This is a truly insightful book on a subject-coups as means of seizing power-that has been little researched and written about. Naunihal Singh is a true pioneer in that regard, and we must commend him for making a unique contribution to military knowledge with this important, highly useful, and valuable book. Biz India MagazineTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1. IntroductionThe Importance of Understanding CoupsUnderstanding Coup Outcomes and DynamicsOther Theoretical ExplanationsBackground of CasesOverview of Chapters2. TheoryCoups as BattlesCoups as ElectionsCoups as Coordination GamesConclusion3. Counting CoupsUnderstanding Coup AttemptsUnderstanding Coup OutcomesUnderstanding Coup LevelsLimitationsConclusion4. Coups from the Top of the MilitaryA Theory of Coups from the TopThe Case of Ghana, 1975Ghana, 1978Conclusion5. Coups from the MiddleA Theory of Coups from the MiddleGhana, 1967Ghana, 1972Conclusion6. Coups from the BottomA Theory of Coups from the BottomGhana, May 1979Ghana, June 1979Ghana, 1981Conclusion7. USSR, 1991BackgroundAnalysisConclusion8. ConclusionImplications for the Study of Civil-Military RelationsImplications for Future CoupsImplications for PolicyAppendixReferencesIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press The Most Unsordid Act
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1969. In The Most Unsordid Act, Warren Kimball provides a history of the Lend-Lease idea. The genesis and development of the Lend-Lease idea, although spanning less than two years, offers a subject of the broadest significance for major questions of democratic government and society. The story begins with the United States' growing recognition of the British monetary and gold shortage and ends with the passage of the Lend-Lease Act and the American commitment that it involved. Dr. Kimball's narrativechronological, detailed, and dramaticincludes analyses of the domestic and international concerns on both sides of the Atlantic and of the roles of the leading protagonists: President F. D. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, as well as Stimson, Hull, Churchill, and key British representatives. He also examines the possibility that Lend-Lease was designed to benefit the American economy at Britain's expense. A central question animates Kimball's account: HowTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. The Crisis Develops: September 1939-November 1940Chapter 1. "A Terrible, Stultifying Vacuum"Chapter 2. "God, Love and Anglo-American Relationa": The French CrisisChapter 3. Of Garden Hoses and Other Stories: Summer and Fall 1940Part II. The Crisis Faced and Solved: November 1940=March 1941Chapter 4. "Money-Above All, Ready Money"Chapter 5. The "Shoot the Works" Bill: Lend-Lease, Inception to ProposalChapter 6. "God Save America From a King Named George"-Or Franklin: The Congressional DebateChapter 7. "From Something Like Disaster": The Passage of the Lend-Lease AstChapter 8. "Like Hitting Wads of Cotton Wool": ConclusionsAppendixBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at
Book SynopsisThe definitive book on judicial review in Athens from the 5th through the 4th centuries BCE. The power of the court to overturn a law or decreecalled judicial reviewis a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judges, for example, determine what is consistent with the Constitution, though this practice is often criticized for giving unelected officials the power to strike down laws enacted by the people's representatives. This principle was actually developed more than two thousand years ago in the ancient democracy at Athens. In Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens, Edwin Carawan reassesses the accumulated evidence to construct a new model of how Athenians made law in the time of Plato and Aristotle, while examining how the courts controlled that process. Athenian juries, Carawan explains, were manned by many hundreds of ordinary citizens rather than a judicial elite. Nonetheless, in the 1890s, American apologists found vindication for judiciaTrade ReviewThe book has been nicely produced by JHU Press, and, at its best, has the merit of drawing our attention to major issues of constitutional law and the history of institutions as the basic contexts to understanding the political culture of Athenian democracy. —Alberto Esu, University of Mannheim, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsAbbreviations and Conventions Introduction: The People and the Law—Demos and NomosPart I. Legislative Procedure and Court ControlChapter 1. Making Law and Mending the ConstitutionChapter 2. Judges and LawmakersChapter 3. "Unlawful Acts" (Paranoma) and the Case of the Arginousai GeneralsPart II. The Constitutional WindowChapter 4. Privileged Characters: Aristokrates' Shield for CharidemosChapter 5. Outrage: The Case against AndrotionChapter 6. Overthrowing the Court: The Case against Timokrates' Surety LawChapter 7. Breaking the Bargain: The Case against Leptines' LawPart III. The Crown Case and Its AntecedentsChapter 8. The Aftermath of ChaironeiaChapter 9. The Crown Case Comes to TrialConclusion: Law's MeasureNotesBibliographyIndex
£42.75
University of Toronto Press The End of the Charter Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies in Canadian politics. Although the impact of the Charter on Canadian law and society was profound, a new status quo has been established. Even though there will be future Charter surprises and decisions that will claim news headlines, Peter J. McCormick argues that these cases will be occasional rather than frequent, and that the Charter "revolution" is over. Or, as he puts it in his introduction, "I will tell a story about the Charter, about the big ripples that have gradually but steadily died away such that the surface of the pond is now almost smooth."The End of the Charter Revolution explores the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, beginning with a generalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Towards the Charter False Dawn: The Supreme Court in the 1950s False Start: The Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights as Fumbled Opportunity Preparing the Revolution: Transforming the Court Accomplishing the Revolution: Entrenching the Charter 2. Interpreting the Charter Modes of Constitutional Interpretation Interpreting the Bills of Rights Conclusion: Interpreting Constitutions, Interpreting Rights 3. The Dickson Court: The Charter Framed The Dickson Court and the Charter: The "First Five" Following Up The Blockbuster: Morgentaler The Odd One Out: The Labour Trilogy Conclusion 4. The Lamer Court: The Charter Expanded The Lamer Court and Gay Rights The Lamer Court and Equality Rights The Lamer Court and Free Speech or Obscenity The Lamer Court and Judicial Independence The Lamer Court and Charter Remedies: The Expanding Repertoire Charter Remedies: Retroactive Invalidity Charter Remedies: Declaration Charter Remedies: Adjusting the Legislation through Interpretation Charter Remedies: Reading up and Reading in Charter Remedies: Temporary Suspension of Invalidity Charter Remedies: The Constitutional Exemption Conclusion 5. The McLachlin Court: The Charter Contained The McLachlin Court: Substantive Issues under the Charter Substantive Issues: Voting Rights Substantive Matters: Extradition and the Death Penalty Substantive Matters: Equality Rights Substantive Matters: Freedom of Religion Substantive Matters: Freedom of Association Substantive Matters: Health Care Substantive Matters: Freedom of Expression Remedies under the Charter Remedies: The Supervisory Order Option Remedies under the Charter: Damages and Monetary Remedies Remedies under the Charter: The Notion of Positive Rights Conclusion 6. The Charter by the Numbers 1. Caseload Size and Its Components 2. Frequency of Disagreement: Minority Reasons in Charter Cases 3. Size and Content of Decisions 4. "Swing" and "Contest" Judgements 5. Judicial Citations, Age, and Precedential Replacement 6. Citations of Dissents and Concurrences 7. "Foreign" Citations 8. Academic Citations Conclusion Conclusion Cases Cited Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Red White and Kind of Blue
Book SynopsisDavid Schneiderman offers a critical perspective on the Americanization of Canadian constitutional practice and a timely warning about its unexamined consequences.Trade Review'Highly recommended.' -- G. A. McBeath Choice Magazine vol 53:11:2016 "Red, White and Kind of Blue? is crisp and unnerving. It suggests Parliament is so malleable, and many of its participants so weak, it dispensed with ancient checks and balances without a shot being fired." -- Holly Doan Blacklocks Reporter, October 10, 2015 "By providing a provocative discussion of contemporary issues and analysis of constitutional reform, Red, White and Kind of Blue is a worthy read. As for its core argument, the book should succeed in spurring a useful debate about Canada's constitutional culture as well." -- Emmett MacFarlane, The Literary Review of Canada, March 2016Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. "No Servile Copy": Constitutional Differences That Matter Chapter Two. President or Prime Minister? Prorogation 2008 Chapter Three. The King's Prerogative vs. Parliamentary Privilege: Prorogation 2009 Chapter Four. A "More Salutary Check"? Electing the Canadian Senate Chapter Five. Appointing Justices: Supreme Court Nominees and the Press Conclusion
£26.99
University of Toronto Press The Economic Constitution of Federal States
Book SynopsisA study of 'economic imperialism' based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient.
£18.99
Bristol University Press Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance
Book SynopsisThis book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence, to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US, and Australasia.Trade Review"A timely and important book on a significant development in city governance and regional leadership; everything you need to know about directly elected mayors." Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick Business School, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Directly elected mayors in urban governance ~ David Sweeting Part 1: UK perspectives; Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a difference? ~ David Sweeting and Robin Hambleton; Assessing the directly elected mayoral model in Bristol, England: An empirical investigation of the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor ~ Thom Oliver; Do mayors make a difference? In their own words… ~ Howard Elcock; Directly elected mayors: necessary but not sufficient to transform places?: The case of Liverpool ~ Nicola Headlam and Paul Hepburn; Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: Comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool ~ Nasrul Ismail; Part 2: International perspectives; The two worlds of elected mayors in the United States: What type of mayor should cities choose? ~ James H. Svara; Popular leaders or rats in the ranks?: Political leadership in Australian cities ~ Paul Burton; Directly elected mayors in New Zealand: The impact of intervening variables on enhanced governing capacity ~ Christine Cheyne; Directly elected mayors in Germany: Leadership and institutional context ~ Björn Egner; Breeding-ground for local non-partisanship, bonus for incumbents Directly elected mayors in Poland ~ Adam Gendźwiłł and Paweł Swianiewicz; Debating directly elected mayors in the Czech Republic: Political games and missing expertise? ~ Petr Jüptner; Part 3: Comparative perspectives; New and established mayoralties: Lessons for local governance in constructing new political institutions: The English and Polish cases ~ Colin Copus, Alasdair Blair, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Michael Dadd; Directly elected mayors: a route to progressive urban leadership? ~ Robin Hambleton; Conclusions and reflections ~ David Sweeting.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance
Book SynopsisThis book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence, to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US, and Australasia.Trade Review"A timely and important book on a significant development in city governance and regional leadership; everything you need to know about directly elected mayors." Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick Business School, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Directly elected mayors in urban governance ~ David Sweeting Part 1: UK perspectives; Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a difference? ~ David Sweeting and Robin Hambleton; Assessing the directly elected mayoral model in Bristol, England: An empirical investigation of the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor ~ Thom Oliver; Do mayors make a difference? In their own words… ~ Howard Elcock; Directly elected mayors: necessary but not sufficient to transform places?: The case of Liverpool ~ Nicola Headlam and Paul Hepburn; Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: Comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool ~ Nasrul Ismail; Part 2: International perspectives; The two worlds of elected mayors in the United States: What type of mayor should cities choose? ~ James H. Svara; Popular leaders or rats in the ranks?: Political leadership in Australian cities ~ Paul Burton; Directly elected mayors in New Zealand: The impact of intervening variables on enhanced governing capacity ~ Christine Cheyne; Directly elected mayors in Germany: Leadership and institutional context ~ Björn Egner; Breeding-ground for local non-partisanship, bonus for incumbents Directly elected mayors in Poland ~ Adam Gendźwiłł and Paweł Swianiewicz; Debating directly elected mayors in the Czech Republic: Political games and missing expertise? ~ Petr Jüptner; Part 3: Comparative perspectives; New and established mayoralties: Lessons for local governance in constructing new political institutions: The English and Polish cases ~ Colin Copus, Alasdair Blair, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Michael Dadd; Directly elected mayors: a route to progressive urban leadership? ~ Robin Hambleton; Conclusions and reflections ~ David Sweeting.
£25.64
New York University Press The Presidents and the Constitution Volume Two
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is excellent for collections on American politics, the Constitution, and the presidency. -- CHOICE * CHOICE *
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New York University Press The Presidents and the Constitution Volume Two
Book SynopsisA revealing look at the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from Woodrow Wilson through Donald J. TrumpDrawing from the monumental publication The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History in 2016, the nation's foremost experts in the American presidency and the US Constitution tell the intertwined stories of how the last eighteen American presidents have interfaced with the Constitution and thus defined the most powerful office in human history. This volume leads off with Woodrow Wilson, the president who led the nation through World War I, and ends with Donald J. Trump, who ushered the US into uncharted political and legal territory. In between, the country was confronted with international wars, the civil rights movement, 9/11, and the advent of the internet, all of which presented unique and pressing constitutional issues. The last one hundred years reveals the awesome powers of the American presidency in domestic and foreign affairs, illustraTrade Review"This book is excellent for collections on American politics, the Constitution, and the presidency." -- CHOICE * CHOICE *
£66.60
New York University Press The Presidents and the Constitution
Book SynopsisShines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the officethe first president to the forty-fourthhas contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation's chief executive. By examining presidential history through the lens of constitutional conflicts and challenges, The Presidents and the Constitution offers a fresh perspective on how the Constitution has evolved in the hands of individual presidents. It delves into key moments in American history, from Washington's early battles with Congress to the advent of the national security presidency under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to reveal the dramTrade ReviewA fluidly fashioned collection of essays about how the roster of American presidents shaped the executive duties as defined in the Constitution....an evenhanded consideration of each president's operating style and effectiveness...A useful...tome featuring top-drawer contributors. * Kirkus Reviews *This volume helpfully spans the gamut of presidents and should be of interest to literate lay persons as well as academics looking for a comprehensive text for classroom use. * Journal of American History *As an author, Gormley is adept at bringing objectivity to controversial subjects, while also highlighting the human motivation behind significant historical events. * Donaldscarinci.com *Gormleyhas assembled a first-rate group of scholars of the American presidency...This book deserves close scrutiny by any student of the U.S. presidency and political development. * Library Journal *The collection of presidential essays leaves readers understanding the extent of the evolution that occurs with each new president. * Choice Connect *An indispensable book on a touchy subject. The American Constitution is not abstract art, it is the foundation of all of our laws. We cut ourselves adrift at great risk to the survival of our civilization. Reviewing the constant, ongoing battle between each successive president and the laws that limited his power offers a perspective that we haven't seen. Gomley has connected the dots and the results offer lessons beyond American history. This is a book about human nature and the struggle for power. As we can see, getting to the White House was not the end of that struggle. It was just the beginning. -- Doug Wead,author of The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's LeadersIn our system of divided powers, presidents shape Constitutional interpretation with their appointments and by the arguments they make. But often, they have looked on helplessly as the Constitution was used to curb their powers and foil their hopes. This remarkable collection of writers captures the drama of this history, president-by-president. A great idea, well and gracefully executed. -- E.J.Dionne, Jr.,author of Why the Right Went WrongKen Gormley and 44 writers on all our presidents have connected the Constitutional dots brilliantly, demonstrating the immense concentration of power in the chief executive and the different, often contradictory, ways it has been used or misused. The book is a class in Constitutional Law all by itself. In several crucial ways this is what the 2016 race for the White House is aboutwho has precisely what power, who shares it, how is it going to be exercised, and what, if any, are its limits. -- Bob Woodward, Associate Editor, The Washington PostEverything you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court and the Presidency but were afraid to ask. -- Nina Totenberg,correspondent for NPRGormley and his impressive roster of collaborators have abundantly delivered on the promise of this book's title. The balance between presidential power and presidential accountability is indeed a living history. And good thing, too, as the past generation alone has given us countless examples of how new conflicts and crises create new demands to revise and clarify the practical meaning of constitutional principles. Readers familiar with Gormley's authoritative work on the Clinton impeachment drama will recall how he blended scholarly detachment and fluency with the legal principles at stake with a journalistic gift for making political characters come to life, illuminating their human strengths and frailties, their mix of high and low motives. Here he has replicated that achievement and coaxed his fellow contributors to do the same. Their brisk and readable survey of 44 presidencies puts present-day controversies in context and shows how living history isn't about legal abstractionit is about ambition, conflict, and the consequences and limits of presidential power. -- John Harris * Politico *
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University of Toronto Press Just Words
Book SynopsisJoel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.
£20.69
University of Toronto Press Regionalism in the Canadian Community 18671967
Book SynopsisProblems of regionalism have not received much attention from historians, who have been primarily concerned with central Canada. To increase the knowledge of this neglected area of study five seminars were held in the summer of 1967 under the auspices of the Canadian Historical Association and the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada with the help of a grant from the Centennial Commission. The five seminars, held at the universities of Saskatchewan, Victoria, Laval, Laurentian, and Memorial, discussed the same topic: Canadian regionalism since confederation. This volume includes the papers presented by twenty-one Canadian and American scholars.The papers deal with ideas and facts which in the past have not received much attention, and they provide clear evidence that there are more than the traditional two versions (English and French) of Canadian history. The wide range of opinion on basic Canadian problems will interest both the scholar and the general reader.
£27.90
University of Nebraska Press Gendered Citizenship
Book SynopsisGendered Citizenship explores how the original ERA conflict served as the vehicle through which Americans not only forged new conceptions of citizenship, but also renewed the justification for sex-specific treatment.Trade Review"Gendered Citizenship sheds important light on the mid-twentieth-century ERA conflict, exposing some of its forgotten dimensions."—Katherine Turk, American Historical Review"The great contribution made by Rebecca DeWolf in Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963 lies in the granular detail she provides about the way the amendment evolved in the early 1920s and why it took the shape it did."—Glenna Matthews, California History"This book's substantial strength lies in its detailed and lucid accounting of the myriad actors, organizations, institutions, laws, and court rulings that shaped the ERA's fortunes in the period from 1920 to 1963, an era given less attention by historians. DeWolf's prodigious research reveals both the complexity and the extent of activism surrounding the Era and situates its trajectory solidly within wider historical contexts."—Lynne Curry, Journal of American History"DeWolf's well-researched history emphasizes the ongoing significance of the conflict a century ago for politics today and will be of interest for graduate students and scholars of the subject, as well as educated readers with a passion for legal and political history."—Nancy Elizabeth Baker, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Gendered Citizenship is a must-read for history lovers, policy wonks, women's rights activists, and anyone else interested in how the U.S. government can support gender equality."—Rebecca Brenner Graham, Society for U.S. Intellectual History"Although this book is on the ERA, it does go into other laws that affected women, especially their employment opportunities. Read it as a general review of public policy on women, especially at the federal level up to 1963. Then imagine how different things would have been if the ERA had been ratified several decades ago."—Jo Freeman, seniorwomen.com“Like the sun peeking through the clouds, Rebecca DeWolf’s groundbreaking book clears the fog that has long surrounded the Equal Rights Amendment. . . . Anyone who wants to understand why the ERA is not yet law would be well advised to read this book.”—Johanna Neuman, author of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote“By tracing the origins of the ERA from the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to 1963, DeWolf offers a deep legal and judicial review of the debate around what constitutes equality under the law and the very nature of citizenship.”—Page Harrington, former executive director of the National Woman’s Party at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument“Rebecca DeWolf has brought us a meticulously researched and vividly detailed account of the original ERA conflict that provides readers with rich context to trace how the arguments against gender equality of nearly a century ago continue to shape our cultural attitudes about the role and duties of women in the domestic sphere today.”—Betsy Fischer Martin, executive director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University“Rebecca DeWolf has given us a book we desperately need—perhaps now more than ever. In Gendered Citizenship DeWolf peels back the layers of conflict surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment . . . to the core question regarding the true scope of American citizenship that arose in the wake of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment securing women’s suffrage in 1920.”—Angie Maxwell, author of The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Equal Rights Amendment and American Citizenship 1. The Radical Nineteenth Amendment: Masculine Citizenship and Women’s Status 2. “The Right to Differ”: The Power of Protectionism, 1920–1932 3. “To Be Regarded as Persons”: Emancipationism on the Move, 1933–1937 4. “We Women Want to Be Persons Now”: The Rise of Emancipationism, 1938–1945 5. “Motherhood Cannot Be Amended”: The Return of Protectionism in the Postwar Era 6. “Socially Desirable Concepts”: The Triumph of Protectionism, 1947–1963 Epilogue: The Legacy of Protectionism Notes Bibliography Index
£69.70
University of Nebraska Press Gendered Citizenship
Book SynopsisGendered Citizenship explores how the original ERA conflict served as the vehicle through which Americans not only forged new conceptions of citizenship, but also renewed the justification for sex-specific treatment.Trade Review"Gendered Citizenship sheds important light on the mid-twentieth-century ERA conflict, exposing some of its forgotten dimensions."—Katherine Turk, American Historical Review"The great contribution made by Rebecca DeWolf in Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963 lies in the granular detail she provides about the way the amendment evolved in the early 1920s and why it took the shape it did."—Glenna Matthews, California History"This book's substantial strength lies in its detailed and lucid accounting of the myriad actors, organizations, institutions, laws, and court rulings that shaped the ERA's fortunes in the period from 1920 to 1963, an era given less attention by historians. DeWolf's prodigious research reveals both the complexity and the extent of activism surrounding the Era and situates its trajectory solidly within wider historical contexts."—Lynne Curry, Journal of American History"DeWolf's well-researched history emphasizes the ongoing significance of the conflict a century ago for politics today and will be of interest for graduate students and scholars of the subject, as well as educated readers with a passion for legal and political history."—Nancy Elizabeth Baker, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Gendered Citizenship is a must-read for history lovers, policy wonks, women's rights activists, and anyone else interested in how the U.S. government can support gender equality."—Rebecca Brenner Graham, Society for U.S. Intellectual History"Although this book is on the ERA, it does go into other laws that affected women, especially their employment opportunities. Read it as a general review of public policy on women, especially at the federal level up to 1963. Then imagine how different things would have been if the ERA had been ratified several decades ago."—Jo Freeman, seniorwomen.com“Like the sun peeking through the clouds, Rebecca DeWolf’s groundbreaking book clears the fog that has long surrounded the Equal Rights Amendment. . . . Anyone who wants to understand why the ERA is not yet law would be well advised to read this book.”—Johanna Neuman, author of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote“By tracing the origins of the ERA from the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to 1963, DeWolf offers a deep legal and judicial review of the debate around what constitutes equality under the law and the very nature of citizenship.”—Page Harrington, former executive director of the National Woman’s Party at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument“Rebecca DeWolf has brought us a meticulously researched and vividly detailed account of the original ERA conflict that provides readers with rich context to trace how the arguments against gender equality of nearly a century ago continue to shape our cultural attitudes about the role and duties of women in the domestic sphere today.”—Betsy Fischer Martin, executive director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University“Rebecca DeWolf has given us a book we desperately need—perhaps now more than ever. In Gendered Citizenship DeWolf peels back the layers of conflict surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment . . . to the core question regarding the true scope of American citizenship that arose in the wake of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment securing women’s suffrage in 1920.”—Angie Maxwell, author of The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Equal Rights Amendment and American Citizenship 1. The Radical Nineteenth Amendment: Masculine Citizenship and Women’s Status 2. “The Right to Differ”: The Power of Protectionism, 1920–1932 3. “To Be Regarded as Persons”: Emancipationism on the Move, 1933–1937 4. “We Women Want to Be Persons Now”: The Rise of Emancipationism, 1938–1945 5. “Motherhood Cannot Be Amended”: The Return of Protectionism in the Postwar Era 6. “Socially Desirable Concepts”: The Triumph of Protectionism, 1947–1963 Epilogue: The Legacy of Protectionism Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
Cornell University Press Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial
Book SynopsisIn an original assessment of all three branches, Jasmine Farrier reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from the partisan narratives of everyday politics, Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers. By focusing on the lawsuits brought by Congressional members that challenge presidential unilateralism, Farrier provides a new diagnostic lens on the permanent institutional problems that have undermined the separation of powers system in the last five decades, across a diverse array of partisan and policy landscapes.As each chapter demonstrates, member lawsuits are an outlet for frustrated members of both parties who cannot get their House and Senate colleagues to confront overweening presidential action through normal legislative processes. But these lawsuits often backfire leaving Congress as aTrade ReviewThis is an important book for anyone concerned about the health of the constitutional order. [This book is] an essential resource for those who need a crash course in separation of powers litigation and its efficacy. * Congress & the Presidency *Farrier's work could not be more relevant than it is in the present politically charged environment, an environment in which tribalism rules and people believe their own 'facts.' Required reading for everyone who cares about democracy in the US. * Choice *Jasmine Farrier's Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial considers the efficacy of one potential check on presidential power—member suits, or lawsuits by legislators seeking judicial correction of executive violations of separation-of-powers principles. Her analysis leads to an ultimately pessimistic view of the vibrancy (and potentially the viability) of the separation of powers in contemporary U.S. politics. * Political Science Quarterly *Jasmine Farrier's work demonstrates the incredible restraint among judges in the federal system when it comes to addressing separation-of-powers questions, especially when members of Congress bring suits against the president. [T]his book makes an excellent and unique contribution to a very well-researched field. A number of audiences will benefit from reading Farrier's careful analysis of American constitutionalism and the separation of powers. * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Systemic Constitutional Dysfunction 1. War Is Justiciable, Until It Isn't 2. Suing to Save the War Powers Resolution 3. Legislative Pro cesses Are Constitutional Questions 4. Courts Cannot Unknot Congress 5. Silence Is Consent for the Modern Presidency 6. So Sue Him Conclusion: Lawful but Awful Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty
Book SynopsisAround the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to take back sovereignty. The contributors to this collection use ethnographic research in disputed and exceptional places to study sovereignty claims from the ground up. While it might immediately seem that citizens desire a stronger state, the cases of compromised, contested, or failed sovereignty in this volume point instead to political imaginations beyond the state form. Examples from Spain to Afghanistan and from Western Sahara to Taiwan show how calls to take back control or to bring back order are best understood as longings for sovereign agency. By paying close ethnographic attention to these desires and their consequences, The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty offers a new way to understand why these yearnings have such profound political resonance in a globally interconnected world. Contributors: Panos Achniotis, Jens Bartelson, Joyce Dalsheim, Dace DzenovskTable of ContentsIntroduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign Agency, by Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves 1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics, by Rebecca Bryant 2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard 3. "Because I Have a Hookup": Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina, by Azra Hromadžić 4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan State, by Sara Friedman 5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan, by Torunn Wimpelmann 6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees, by Alice Wilson 7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People,Their State, and the Problem of Mobility, by Dace Dzenovska 8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below, by Panos Achniotis 9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State, by Joyce Dalsheim 10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an "Unwritten" Border, by Madeleine Reeves Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition, by Jens Bartelson
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Stanford University Press Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the
Book SynopsisThe Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in Lebanon have one thing in common—they are biopolitical subjects forged through bureaucratic, ideological, and legal techniques of the state. With this book, Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference. She presents state power as inevitably contingent, like the practices of everyday life it engenders, focusing on the regulation of religious conversion, the curation of legal archives, state and parastatal violence, and secular activism. Sextarianism locates state power in the experiences, transitions, uprisings, and violence that people in the Middle East continue to live.Trade Review"Maya Mikdashi's gloriously written Sextarianism is the book we have been waiting for. Deeply personal in its tone, expansively political in its intent, this book draws on unusual archives and intimate knowledge of Lebanon to show the relation between gender, sexuality, and the state in all its ambivalent, messy complexity."—Laleh Khalili, University of London"Sextarianism is luminous. Maya Mikdashi brings panache and an exquisite eye for the quotidian to diverse objects of analysis, all while prying open new conversations about archival research as collective labor. A must-read for anyone studying state formation, the geopolitics of queer theory, and secularism, with implications far beyond Lebanon."—Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University"A tour de force by one of the most dynamic, iconoclastic, and original socio-political analysts of the Arab world of this generation. Maya Mikdashi's Sextarianism will transform the way Lebanon has been understood; more radically, it will force everyone to rethink how religious and sexual differences work at/as the nexus of states and citizenship."—Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University"Both theoretically sophisticated and deeply poignant, Sextarianism disrupts assumptions that secularism liberates people from religion, challenging idealized solutions to political-sectarianism. Readers are gifted with marvelously vivid and careful ethnography, through which Maya Mikdashi brings to life the often-painful effects of state sectarian practices on people's lives in Lebanon."—Lara Deeb, Scripps College"Using court records, Mikdashi... disentangles the ways in which the sectarian Lebanese state handles sexual difference through the application of personal status laws....Recommended."—M. L. Russell, CHOICE
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Stanford University Press States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in
Book SynopsisOn any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and society, rarely do we consider how bread is prepared, consumed, discussed, and circulated—and what this all represents. With this book, José Ciro Martínez examines khubz 'arabi to unpack the effects of the welfare program that ensures its widespread availability. Drawing on more than a year working as a baker in Amman, Martínez probes the practices that underpin subsidized bread. Following bakers and bureaucrats, he offers an immersive examination of social welfare provision. Martínez argues that the state is best understood as the product of routine practices and actions, through which it becomes a stable truth in the lives of citizens. States of Subsistence not only describes logics of rule in contemporary Jordan—and the place of bread within them—but also unpacks how the state endures through forms, sensations, and practices amid the seemingly unglamorous and unspectacular day-to-day.Trade Review"Original, lucidly written, and theoretically rigorous, this rich ethnography tells us how to find the state in a quite unexpected place: the bakery. An outstanding book."—John Chalcraft, London School of Economics, author of Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East"The exciting States of Subsistence not only challenges how we think about state power in Jordan, but offers a nuanced reading of the literature on state power and an original theoretical approach. José Ciro Martínez provides a roadmap for examining quotidian practices of state power in democracies and non-democracies alike."—Jillian Schwedler, author of Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent"Beautifully written, rich in ethnographic detail, States of Subsistence examines the constitution of the state at a novel site: the bakery. Drawing on remarkable access to the inner workings of both bakeries and government bureaucracy, José Ciro Martínez offers a nuanced account of how subsidized bread figures in people's everyday lives and encounters with the state."—Jessica Barnes, author of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt"Jose Ciro Martinez's brilliant new book,States of Subsistence, largely sets aside those dominant questions of bread riots, food security, regime survival and economic reforms to craft a uniquely important and absolutely fascinating look into the political meaning of the lived experience of subsidized bread in Jordan."—Marc Lynch, Abu Aardvark"In this fascinating book, [Martínez] reveals the extent to which the bread subsidy is intimately woven into the economic, social, and political life of the kingdom."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"Centering the perspectives of Jordanians with intimate knowledge of bread and baking, Martínez demonstrates the analytical payoff of taking cultures of consumption and culinary knowledge seriously."—Anny Gaul, Current History"Martínez sees the consumption and production of bread as a microcosm for how Jordanians coexist with authoritarian power. There is no other book about the politics of subsidizing bread in Jordan, certainly none that bestows such a memorable conclusion."—Sean L. Yom, Middle East Research and Information Project"I have long waited for this kind of book, an embodied political economy of a staple food such as bread, and how it literally—rather than just symbolically—sustains a nation. Martinez's evocative ethnography of bread and political stability in Jordan is a prime example of how minute attention to everyday food practices can yield deep analytical insights into the workings of a state."—Katharina Graf, Gastronomica"This splendid ethnographic study addresses one of political science's most glaring lacunae. Few things weigh more heavily than food upon both citizens and governments alike. Yet few other concepts are as understudied as this one, particularly by political scientists working on the Middle East.... To make sense of this uncertain future, observers of Jordan should consider how politics and food became wedded to one another in the first place. States of Subsistence is a magnificent place to start."—Sean Yom, International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. A New Style of Administration 2. Sensing the State 3. Statecraft 4. Echoes, Absences, and Reach 5. Tactics at the Bakery 6. Leavened Apprehensions Conclusion
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Stanford University Press Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the
Book SynopsisThe Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in Lebanon have one thing in common—they are biopolitical subjects forged through bureaucratic, ideological, and legal techniques of the state. With this book, Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference. She presents state power as inevitably contingent, like the practices of everyday life it engenders, focusing on the regulation of religious conversion, the curation of legal archives, state and parastatal violence, and secular activism. Sextarianism locates state power in the experiences, transitions, uprisings, and violence that people in the Middle East continue to live.Trade Review"Maya Mikdashi's gloriously written Sextarianism is the book we have been waiting for. Deeply personal in its tone, expansively political in its intent, this book draws on unusual archives and intimate knowledge of Lebanon to show the relation between gender, sexuality, and the state in all its ambivalent, messy complexity."—Laleh Khalili, University of London"Sextarianism is luminous. Maya Mikdashi brings panache and an exquisite eye for the quotidian to diverse objects of analysis, all while prying open new conversations about archival research as collective labor. A must-read for anyone studying state formation, the geopolitics of queer theory, and secularism, with implications far beyond Lebanon."—Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University"A tour de force by one of the most dynamic, iconoclastic, and original socio-political analysts of the Arab world of this generation. Maya Mikdashi's Sextarianism will transform the way Lebanon has been understood; more radically, it will force everyone to rethink how religious and sexual differences work at/as the nexus of states and citizenship."—Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University"Both theoretically sophisticated and deeply poignant, Sextarianism disrupts assumptions that secularism liberates people from religion, challenging idealized solutions to political-sectarianism. Readers are gifted with marvelously vivid and careful ethnography, through which Maya Mikdashi brings to life the often-painful effects of state sectarian practices on people's lives in Lebanon."—Lara Deeb, Scripps College"Using court records, Mikdashi... disentangles the ways in which the sectarian Lebanese state handles sexual difference through the application of personal status laws....Recommended."—M. L. Russell, CHOICE
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press A Constitutional Culture: New England and the
Book SynopsisIn A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule. With the return of Charles II to the English throne in 1660, the puritan-led colonies faced enormous pressure to conform to the crown’s priorities. Charles demanded that puritans change voting practices, baptismal policies, and laws, and he also cast an eye on local resources such as forests, a valuable source of masts for the English navy. Moreover, to enforce these demands, the king sent four royal commissioners on warships, ostensibly headed for New Netherland but easily redirected toward Boston. In the face of this threat to local rule, colonists had to decide whether they would submit to the commissioners’ authority, which they viewed as arbitrary because it was not accountable to the people, or whether they would mobilize to defy the crown. Those resisting the crown included not just freemen (voters) but also people often seen as excluded or marginalized such as non-freemen, indentured servants, and women. Together they crafted a potent regional constitutional culture in defiance of Charles II that was characterized by a skepticism of metropolitan ambition, a defense of civil and religious liberties, and a conviction that self-government was divinely sanctioned. Weimer shows how they expressed this constitutional culture through a set of well-rehearsed practices—including fast days, debates, committee work, and petitions. Equipped with a ready vocabulary for criticizing arbitrary rule, with a providentially informed capacity for risk-taking, and with a set of intellectual frameworks for divided sovereignty, the constitutional culture that New Englanders forged would not easily succumb to an imperial authority intent on consolidating its power.Trade Review"The 1660s in New England were once considered diminished and insignificant, a once united and inspired society that had lost its original direction….In Adrian Chastain Weimer’s hands, the 1660s emerge as the opposite of diminished and insignificant….[Her] analysis of this decade and her argument about constitutional thinking in the early English Atlantic are convincing….She rehabilitates Restoration New England as a vibrant and politically engaged place where dynamic debates took place about the future among an energized population" * William and Mary Quarterly *"A Constitutional Culture tells a captivating story of division, resistance, and the charter-based allegiance of New England’s colonists to the newly restored Stuart Crown in the 1660s...Weimer constructs a clear, resolute perspective of colonial resistance through the Restoration era that is both compelling and comprehensive. Her familiarity with the sources and historiography is evident in the well-crafted, detail-rich story of this very impressive work. " * H-Early America *"With A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer joins the first rank of historians of colonial New England and makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the nature of political culture in early America. Weimer centers the period immediately following the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660 as the critical moment when a distinctive constitutional culture, different from and in resistance to the constitutional culture of Restoration England, coalesced in New England." * Mark A. Peterson, Yale University *"Weimer’s deeply researched and elegantly written study offers fascinating new insight into the resistance of New Englanders to the absolutist pretensions of the Restoration monarchy. Drawing on a wide range of sources that highlight the social depth in politics in 1660s New England and the powerful interactions between the English state and Charles II’s subjects across the Atlantic, A Constitutional Culture is a must-read for English historians and Americanists alike." * Tim Harris, Brown University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Englands Israel and the Foundations of Modern
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Bristol University Press Westminster and the World: Commonwealth and
Book SynopsisConstitutional scholar Elliot Bulmer considers what Britain might learn from Westminster-derived constitutions around the world. Exploring the principles of Westminster Model constitutions and their impact on democracy, human rights and good government, this book builds to a bold re-imagining of the United Kingdom’s future written framework.Table of Contents1. Rediscovering Britain’s Wider Constitutional Tradition 2. The Decline and Fall of the British Constitution 3. Towards a Written Constitution 4. Some Objections Answered 5. The Westminster Model as a Constitutional Archetype 6. Foundations, Principles, Rights and Religion 7. The Crown, Prime Minister and Government 8. Parliament I: Functions, Powers and Composition 9. Parliament II: Privileges, Organization and Procedures 10. Nations, Regions and Local Democracy 11. Judiciary, Administration, Elections and Miscellaneous Provisions 12. Constitution-Building Processes
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