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University Press of America Crime Policy in America
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s.Trade ReviewThis is the first up-to-date book to provide an overview and discussions of the shaping of federal, state, and local criminal justice policies throughout American society . . . This excellent book increased my knowledge of the social, political, psychological, and economic context of criminal justice policies. I highly recommend this book to criminal justice students and practitioners, legislators, lobbyists, advocates, librarians, and educators. -- Albert R. Roberts, professor of criminal justice, School of Arts and Sciences, RutgersCrime Policy in America is a detailed and insightful analysis of the America’s criminal justice system. Dr. Shahidullah provides an exceptional historical review of the America’s criminal justice system and moves the reader to contemporary issues within the appropriate cultural and social contexts. -- James F. Hodgson, vice-president, Virginia Association of Criminal Justice EducatorsDr. Shahidullah provides a detailed and extensive review of the federalization of crime and justice policy in the United States . . . Carefully documenting a myriad of laws and legislation, as well as key Supreme Court decisions, Dr. Shahidullah illustrates the expansive growth of the federal and state crime legislation and the subsequent growth of affiliated agencies, institutions, and programs. Clearly organized, the comprehensive reference is adaptable for classroom instruction, and will also serve the interests of policy-makers, scholars and librarians. -- Judith A. Rider, professor of criminal justice, St. John’s University, editor of Criminal Justice AbstractTable of Contents Foreword Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Crime Policy: Meaning, Nature, Actors, and Contexts Chapter 2: Federalization of Crime and Justice Policy: History, Trends, and Processes Chapter 3: The War on Drugs: Evolution of the Policy of Criminalization Chapter 4: Policy-Making in Juvenile Justice: Growth, Change, and Continuity Chapter 5: Sex Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 6: Cyber Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 7: Crime and Justice Policy in America in the 21st Century: The Emerging Trends References
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University Press of America Crime Policy in America
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s. This book examines the nature of presidential policy-making in crime and justice from Nixon to Obama, congressional policy-making since the birth of the Bill of Rights, and judicial policy-making since the promulgation of the Judicial Act of 1789. The perspective of this book is deeply historical, sociological, and legalistic. Historically, the book has explored the evolution of different policy strategies at different periods of American history; sociologically, it scrutinized the impact of the get-tough policy paradigm on crime and justice, and from a legal perspective it has examined the conflict and the consensus of Congress and the federal judiciary on different issues of crime and justice from drug crimes to sex crimes to counterterrorism. The second edition of the book hTrade ReviewThis is the first up-to-date book to provide an overview and discussions of the shaping of federal, state, and local criminal justice policies throughout American society . . . This excellent book increased my knowledge of the social, political, psychological, and economic context of criminal justice policies. I highly recommend this book to criminal justice students and practitioners, legislators, lobbyists, advocates, librarians, and educators. -- Albert R. Roberts, professor of criminal justice, School of Arts and Sciences, RutgersCrime Policy in America is a detailed and insightful analysis of the America’s criminal justice system. Dr. Shahidullah provides an exceptional historical review of the America’s criminal justice system and moves the reader to contemporary issues within the appropriate cultural and social contexts. -- James F. Hodgson, vice-president, Virginia Association of Criminal Justice EducatorsDr. Shahidullah provides a detailed and extensive review of the federalization of crime and justice policy in the United States . . . Carefully documenting a myriad of laws and legislation, as well as key Supreme Court decisions, Dr. Shahidullah illustrates the expansive growth of the federal and state crime legislation and the subsequent growth of affiliated agencies, institutions, and programs. Clearly organized, the comprehensive reference is adaptable for classroom instruction, and will also serve the interests of policy-makers, scholars and librarians. -- Judith A. Rider, professor of criminal justice, St. John’s University, editor of Criminal Justice AbstractTable of Contents Foreword Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Crime Policy: Meaning, Nature, Actors, and Contexts Chapter 2: Federalization of Crime and Justice Policy: History, Trends, and Processes Chapter 3: The War on Drugs: Evolution of the Policy of Criminalization Chapter 4: Policy-Making in Juvenile Justice: Growth, Change, and Continuity Chapter 5: Sex Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 6: Cyber Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 7: Crime and Justice Policy in America in the 21st Century: The Emerging Trends References
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University of British Columbia Press Good Government Good Citizens
Book SynopsisGood Government? Good Citizens? explores the evolving concept of the citizen in Canada at the beginning of this century. Three forces are at work in reconstituting the citizen in this society: courts, politics, and markets. Many see these forces as intersecting and colliding in ways that are fundamentally reshaping the relationship of individuals to the state and to each other.How has Canadian society actually been transformed? Is the state truly in retreat? Do individuals, in fact, have a fundamentally altered sense of their relationship to government and to each other? Have courts and markets supplanted representative politics regarding the expression of basic values? Must judicialized protection of human rights and minority interests necessarily mean a diminished concern for the common good on the part of representative politics? To what extent should markets and representative politics maintain a role in the protection of human rights and minority interests? WillTrade ReviewIn Good Government? Good Citizens? W.A. Bogart provides a thoughtful analysis of the drama of social and political change in Canada over the last several decades. -- Mike Hogeterp * The Catalyst, Summer 2006 *Bogart offers an important thesis about the power of judges and rights that demands further inquiry both in Canada and elsewhere in the West. -- Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., Dept of Political Science, West Virginia University * Law and Politics Book Review *Any reader who would cares about the future of democracy in Canada would do well to read this broad-ranging and thought-provoking book. -- Miriam Smith, Department of Political Studies, Trent University * Canadian Public Policy, vol. XXXII. No. 1, 2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Society that Was1 Before the TransformationPart 2: Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Society in Transition2 The Ascendance of Courts3 Representative Politics in Disarray4 Chasing Choice: The Market AboundingPart 3: Some Examples of a Changing Canada5 Aboriginals: Two Row Wampum, Second Thoughts, and Citizens Plus6 Citizens in Cyberspace: The Internet and Canadian Democracy7 The Youngest Citizens and Education as a Public Good?8 Evermore Citizens Who Are Senior: An Ageing Canada Conclusion: "The Dance of Adjustment"NotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Seeking the Courts Advice The Politics of the
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of the Canadian reference power, Seeking the Court’s Advice examines how policy makers use the courts strategically to achieve political ends.Trade Reviewthis is an excellent book that completely fills a major and unfortunate lacuna in the academic literature. It is well organized, well written, thorough and balanced, and it winds up with recommendations for better squaring the practice with judicial independence concerns.A first book, you say, and by a very junior author? It certainly doesn’t read that way—this is a polished work of mature scholarship. I recommend it highly. -- Peter McCormick * Canadian Journal of Political Science *[Puddister] manages to provide a superb and comprehensive analysis of the development, evolution, and purposes of the reference power. -- Emmett Macfarlane, associate professor, University of Waterloo * The Review of Constitutional Studies *…Seeking the Court’s Advice will likely affect the way the power is exercised and conceived of by governments, interveners, and courts. -- Jennah Khaled, JD, Osgoode Hall Law * Osgoode Hall Law Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reference Cases as a Mix of Law and Politics1 Origins and Implications of the Reference Power2 Contestation and Reference Cases3 Routine Politics and Nonroutine Litigation: References after 19494 “It’s Always a Little Bit of Politics”: Why Governments Ask Reference Questions5 Why Not Refer Everything? The Padlock Act and Blasphemy6 Seeking the Court’s Advice and the Delegation of Decision MakingConclusion: A Legal Solution to Political ProblemsAppendix A: Canadian Reference LegislationAppendix B: Reference Case ListNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Seeking the Courts Advice
Book SynopsisCan Parliament legalize same-sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearms registry? Each of these questions is contentious and deeply political, and each was addressed by a court in a reference case, not by elected policy makers.Reference cases allow governments to obtain an advisory opinion from a court without a live dispute and opposing litigants and governments often wield this power strategically. Through a reference case, elected officials can insert the courts and the judiciary into political debates that can be both contentious and normative. Seeking the Court's Advice is the first in-depth study of the reference power, drawing on over two hundred reference cases from 1875 to 2017. With novel insight and analysis, Kate Puddister demonstrates that the actual outcome of a reference case win or lose is often secondary to the political benefits that can be attained from relying on courts througTrade Reviewthis is an excellent book that completely fills a major and unfortunate lacuna in the academic literature. It is well organized, well written, thorough and balanced, and it winds up with recommendations for better squaring the practice with judicial independence concerns.A first book, you say, and by a very junior author? It certainly doesn’t read that way—this is a polished work of mature scholarship. I recommend it highly. -- Peter McCormick * Canadian Journal of Political Science *[Puddister] manages to provide a superb and comprehensive analysis of the development, evolution, and purposes of the reference power. -- Emmett Macfarlane, associate professor, University of Waterloo * The Review of Constitutional Studies *…Seeking the Court’s Advice will likely affect the way the power is exercised and conceived of by governments, interveners, and courts. -- Jennah Khaled, JD, Osgoode Hall Law * Osgoode Hall Law Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reference Cases as a Mix of Law and Politics1 Origins and Implications of the Reference Power2 Contestation and Reference Cases3 Routine Politics and Nonroutine Litigation: References after 19494 “It’s Always a Little Bit of Politics”: Why Governments Ask Reference Questions5 Why Not Refer Everything? The Padlock Act and Blasphemy6 Seeking the Court’s Advice and the Delegation of Decision MakingConclusion: A Legal Solution to Political ProblemsAppendix A: Canadian Reference LegislationAppendix B: Reference Case ListNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Debt and Federalism
Book SynopsisDebt and Federalism is the first complete account of the Canadian federal bankruptcy and insolvency power, showing how four landmark cases form the bedrock of the modern bankruptcy system.Trade ReviewThis book is a masterpiece of academic contribution enriching our understanding on the bankruptcy law development in Canada and beyond … I am overwhelmed by the quality of the in-depth analysis in this book. -- Zhang Zinian, University of Leeds * Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative Blog *While the tradition of any book review is to mention a few blemishes, I was hard pressed to find any... This is an excellent, thought-provoking and informative book. -- Vern W. DaRe, University of Windsor * Banking & Finance Law Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Untested Federal Power1 The Voluntary Assignments Case (1894) and Lord Herschell’s Dicta2 Royal Bank of Canada v Larue and the Brave New World of Bankruptcy Law3 The Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case and the Debtor’s Financial Condition4 The Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case and Rehabilitating DebtorsConclusion: A Modern View of Bankruptcy and InsolvencyNotes; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Debt and Federalism
Book SynopsisDebt and Federalism is the first complete account of the Canadian federal bankruptcy and insolvency power, showing how four landmark cases form the bedrock of the modern bankruptcy system.Trade ReviewThis book is a masterpiece of academic contribution enriching our understanding on the bankruptcy law development in Canada and beyond … I am overwhelmed by the quality of the in-depth analysis in this book. -- Zhang Zinian, University of Leeds * Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative Blog *While the tradition of any book review is to mention a few blemishes, I was hard pressed to find any... This is an excellent, thought-provoking and informative book. -- Vern W. DaRe, University of Windsor * Banking & Finance Law Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Untested Federal Power1 The Voluntary Assignments Case (1894) and Lord Herschell’s Dicta2 Royal Bank of Canada v Larue and the Brave New World of Bankruptcy Law3 The Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case and the Debtor’s Financial Condition4 The Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case and Rehabilitating DebtorsConclusion: A Modern View of Bankruptcy and InsolvencyNotes; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Science in the Federal Government
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe qualities that made Science in the Federal Government exemplary in 1957 still do so today. The book demonstrates that the history of science can be done as an integral part of political and social history, that the history of institutions need not be narrow and dull if it includes the human dimension of personalities and elites and social relationships. It succeeds admirably in treating technical aspects of science without letting them dominate the central organizational and human themes. Dupree's achievement has been and still is reassuring and inspiring. IsisTable of ContentsPrefacePreface to the First Edition1. First Attempts to Form a Policy, 1787-18002. Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era, 1800-18293. Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man, 1829-18424. The Fulfillment of Smithson's Will, 1829-18615. The Great Explorations and Survey's Will, 1829-18616. Bache and the Quest for a Central Scientific Organization, 1851-18617. The Civil War, 1861-18658. The Evolution of Research in Agriculture, 1862-19169. The Decline of Science in the military Services, 1865-189010. The Geological Survey, 1867-188511. The Allison Commission and the Department of Sceince, 1884-188612. Conservation, 1865-191613. Medicine and Public Health, 1865-191614. The Completion of the Federal Scientific Establishment15. Patterns of Government Research in Modern America, 1865-191616. The Impact of World War I, 1914-191817. Transition to a Business Era, 1919-192918. The Depression and the New Deal, 1929-193919. Prospect and Retrospect at the Beginning of a New Era, 1940ChronologyBibliographic NotesReferencesIndex
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University of Oklahoma Press Diminishing the Bill of Rights
Book SynopsisThe modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbour. Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of a decision that was a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights.Trade ReviewAccording to the prevailing understanding, the Marshall Court's decision in Barron v. Baltimore (1833) was a straightforward, uncontroversial statement of constitutional law. In this thoroughly researched case history, William Mercer challenges that interpretation by bringing to light a broad debate among nineteenth-century jurists and legal commentators about the sources of rights - a debate that began before and continued long after Barron."" - Charles F. Hobson, author of The Great Yazoo Lands Sale: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Volume 4 A Legal
Book SynopsisDraws on the author’s experience as a tribal attorney to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation. The book traces the Seminoles’ story from their removal to Indian Territory from Florida in the late nineteenth century to the new challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Scarecrow Press Personal vs Private A Bibliographic Exploration
Book SynopsisPersonal vs. Private is the first comprehensive bibliography of works written about the records, documents and papers of our nation's chief executive.Trade ReviewOverall, this is an excellent work and it should be included in any library's collection or possessed by anyone interested in conducting research on the American presidency. * American Reference Books Annual *Sezzi (an associate librarian at the D. R. Henry Library at Ventura College) presents a bibliography that covers the legal landscape of the Presidential Records Act of 1978 and related legislation and issues. A brief narrative overview introducing the legislative control of presidential records opens the book, followed by a bibliographic essay on important works dealing with the topic and a more inclusive bibliography. Appendixes provide information on Executive Orders relating to presidential records, legislative bill tracings, important judicial cases, and archives with presidential records. * Reference and Research Book News *
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Historical Dictionary of the US Supreme Court
Book SynopsisThe Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Supreme Court covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on every justice, major case, issue, and process that comprises the Courtâs work. Trade ReviewPart of the ‘Historical Dictionary’ series on US politics, this latest foray is the first to address the judicial branch of the federal government, focusing on the Supreme Court as a political institution. Ward, assisted by two graduate students, is very knowledgeable on the subject, having written several books on the Court. At more than 600 pages, this hefty volume provides a comprehensive source of information on all matters pertaining to the Court and, thus, makes for an excellent quick reference. Noteworthy are its extensive chronology, 35-page introduction qua historical essay (well worth reading), and five appendixes. . . .The current work should find a place alongside similar works not only in collections of academic and law libraries, but those supporting political science programs. Public libraries should also consider purchasing. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. * CHOICE *This is a good factual reference book. . . .Students struggling to find their way through 226 years of Supreme Court jurisprudence will welcome it. * s *“An excellent treatment of… a vast topic…. It deserves to be a research tool for all involved in academics and teaching to judges and attorneys…. [The] opening introduction is most helpful and captures the dynamics of the personalities and social aspects of the Court’s growth and its justices. The extensive cross-referencing also provides the reader with a much easier way to follow up on [the] many citations.” -- Hon. George T. Anagnost, Municipal Court Judge, Peoria, ArizonaTable of ContentsEditor’s Foreword, Jon Woronoff Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendixes 1.Constitution of the United States, 1787 2.Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court 3.Failed Supreme Court Nominees 4.Longest Serving Supreme Court Justices 5.Judicial Ideology: Aggregate Voting of Supreme Court Justices in Civil Liberties Cases, 1946-2004 Bibliography About the Authors
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RAND The Science of Gun Policy
Book SynopsisThis report synthesizes the available scientific evidence on the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, participation in hunting and sport shooting, and other outcomes. Based on this synthesis, the authors highlight policies whose effects are better supported by evidence and areas where more and better information could contribute to establishing fair and effective gun policies.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Law and the Limits of Government
Book SynopsisIn this first book-length treatment of those questions, the author explains that legislatures pass laws temporarily in order to reduce opposition from the citizenry, to increase the level of information revealed by lobbies, and to externalize the political costs of changing the tax code on to future legislatures.Trade ReviewLaw and the Limits of Government by Frank Fagan is a creative and enormously useful book for any scholar of legislation, timing rules, and politics. --Jacob Gersen, Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Francesco Parisi Part I: Theory 1. Introduction 2. Short- to Medium-term Residual Effects 3. Long-term Residual Effects 4. Information and Commitment 5. Temporary Tax Legislation Part II: Evidence 6. Passage Probability 7. Sponsor's Age 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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HarperCollins They Dont Represent Us
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Cambridge University Press Administrative Law from the Inside Out Essays on
Book SynopsisThis collection of twenty-one essays on administrative law provides a snapshot of cutting-edge thinking in this important field, which forms part of the practice of a large portion of the legal profession and affects the lives of all Americans from air quality to car safety and to social security.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jerry L. Mashaw's creative tension with the field of administrative law Nicholas R. Parrillo; Part I. An Internal Law of Administration: 1. Jerry L. Mashaw, the due process revolution, and the limits of judicial power Thomas W. Merrill; 2. The management side of due process in the service-based welfare state Charles F. Sabel and William H. Simon; 3. Jerry L. Mashaw and the public law curriculum Peter L. Strauss; 4. From the history to the theory of administrative constitutionalism Sophia Z. Lee; 5. Cyberdelegation and the administrative state Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar; Part II. Internal Law and the President: 6. Internal administrative law before and after the APA Gillian E. Metzger and Kevin M. Stack; 7. Boundary disputes: Jerry L. Mashaw's anti-formalism, constitutional interpretation and the Unitary Presidency Peter M. Shane; 8. Cost-benefit analysis of financial regulation: an institutional perspective Richard L. Revesz; Part III. Adjudication and Divergent Models of Justice: 9. Meeting the Mashaw test for consistency in administrative decisionmaking Paul Verkuil; 10. Varieties of bureaucratic justice: building on Mashaw's typology Robert A. Kagan; 11. Enforcement adjudication at the SEC David Zaring; Part IV. The Agency and its External Environment: 12. Pathways to auto safety: assessing the role of the national highway traffic safety administration Robert L. Rabin; 13. A comparison of the cultures and performance of a modern agency and a nineteenth century agency Richard J. Pierce, Jr; Part V. Remapping the Administrative State's Development: 14. On the emergence of the administrative petition: innovations in nineteenth-century indigenous North America Daniel Carpenter; 15. Putting the 'public' in public administration: the rise of the public utility idea William J. Novak; 16. Lochner and property Edward Rubin; Part VI. 'The Agency' as More than a Black Box: 17. Supervising outsourcing: the need for better design of blended governance Nina A. Mendelson; 18. Government market participation as conflicted government Jon D. Michaels; 19. State regulatory capacity and administrative: law and governance under globalization Richard B. Stewart; Conclusion. The inside out perspective: a first person account Jerry L. Mashaw.
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Cambridge University Press Checking Presidential Power
Book SynopsisA central concern about the robustness of democratic rule in new democracies is the concentration of power in the executive branch and the potential this creates for abuse. This concern is felt particularly with regard to the concentration of legislative power. Checking Presidential Power explains the levels of reliance on executive decrees in a comparative perspective. Building on the idea of institutional commitment, which affects the enforcement of decision-making rules, Palanza describes the degree to which countries rely on executive decree authority as more reliance may lead to unbalanced presidential systems and will ultimately affect democratic quality. Breaking new ground by both theorizing and empirically analyzing decree authority from a comparative perspective, this book examines policy making in separation of powers systems. It explains the choice between decrees and statutes, and why legislators are sometimes profoundly engaged in the legislative process and yet other timTrade Review'Palanza brings formidable tools to bear in this book - sophisticated theory, extensive data, deep knowledge of her cases, and clear writing. She tests her ideas with extensive studies of policy making in Brazil and Argentina, as well as with rigorous analysis drawing data from across Latin America. She shows us what factors push presidents toward unilateral policymaking and what institutional conditions foster legislative influence. This book is a real achievement.' John M. Carey, John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College'Palanza's Checking Presidential Power is a long overdue corrective to the often uncritical assumption that presidents are all-powerful and that legislatures (and courts) are mere bystanders in Latin America's separation-of-powers systems. By refusing to consider presidents and their decrees in isolation, Palanza's book gives us a much more holistic account, both theoretically and empirically, of how policy gets made in separation-of-powers systems.' Brian F. Crisp, Washington University, St Louis'This is a great book. It is the first to provide a comprehensive and positive theory of the choice between policy-making by decree versus statute. Unlike previous work, it places the decision about the relative incidence of executive decrees in a broad strategic context, which includes not only the president but also legislators, the courts and interest groups. Palanza offers detailed empirical analysis of decree usage in several countries, as well as, to my knowledge, the first cross-national analysis of law-making by decree in presidential systems. This book will be required for anyone interested in executive politics, institutional analysis, presidentialism, democratization, Latin American and many other areas.' José Antonio Cheibub, Mary Thomas Marshall Professor in Liberal Arts, Texas A & M University'In her groundbreaking book, Palanza (Pontificia Universidad de Chile) examines policy making in separation of powers systems by explaining the levels of reliance on executive decrees that may lead to unbalanced presidential systems and ultimately low democratic quality. The author accurately defends the long-held belief that policy enacted by decree is less stable than policy enacted by the widely supported congressional statutes.' K. M. Zaarour, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction: a choice of paths behind each policy; 2. Decrees versus statutes: choice of legislative paths in separation of powers systems; 3. Institutions and institutional commitment; 4. Reinstatement of congressional decision rights: Brazil; 5. A corollary of low levels of institutional commitment: Argentina; 6. The choice of legislative paths in comparative perspective; 7. Conclusions: rules, institutional commitment, and checks on presidents.
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Cambridge University Press Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
Book SynopsisDemocratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order to put countries on a positive path of institutional development. Where much of the existing literature on the state-democracy nexus focuses on quantitative cross-national data, this volume offers a theoretically grounded regional analysis built around in-depth qualitative case studies. The chapters examine cases of successful democratic consolidation (South Korea, Taiwan), defective democracy (Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor), and autocratic reversal (Cambodia, Thailand). The book''s evidence challenges the dominant ''state first, democracy later'' argument, demonstrating instead that stateness is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for democratic consolidation. The authors not only show that democratization can become trapped in path-dependent processes, but also that the system-level organization of informal networks plays a Trade Review'Croissant and Hellmann have assembled an impressive volume around a theme of immense scholarly and practical importance - namely, the relationship between state capacity and democracy. Together, the chapters in this volume offer a nuanced view of the way in which state capacity and democracy interact and co-evolve in a variety of country contexts.' Allen Hicken, University of Michigan'By focusing on the state-democracy nexus, this volume unpacks the various theoretical and conceptual relationships between stateness and democratic consolidation. Drawing on a collection of empirically rich case studies of democratic transitions in Asia, the authors inductively generate new insights into the complicated and varied pathways to and from democracy. Hellmann and Croissant have put together a refreshing take on democracy in a region where political reform is tenuous and a moment in the world when democracy's prospects are fraught.' Joseph Wong, University of Toronto'This study contributes to the existing research by recognizing the effects of informal institutions and networks on shaping state capacity … This book will be relevant to scholars of state-democracy relations and Asian studies in general … Recommended.' X. Li, Choice MagazineTable of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking Stateness and Democracy in Asia Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann; 2. State Building and Democratization: The Sequencing Debate and Evidence from East Asia Tuong Vu; 3. South Korea's Democracy and the Legacies of the Developmental State Olli Hellmann; 4. After Hegemony: State Capacity, the Quality of Democracy, and the Legacies of the Party-State in Democratic Taiwan Kharis Templeman; 5. Democratization Interrupted: The Parallel State and the Demise of Democracy in Thailand Paul Chambers; 6. Weak State and the Limits of Democratization in Cambodia, 1993–2017 Kheang Un; 7. The Institutional Roots of Defective Democracy in The Philippines Erik Martinez Kuhonta and Nhu Truong; 8. Stateness and State Capacity in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Securing Democracy's Survival, Entrenching its Low Quality Marcus Mietzner; 9. As Good as it Gets? Stateness and Democracy in East Timor Aurel Croissant and Rebecca Abu Sharkh; 10. Stateness and Democracy: Evidence From East Asia and Cross-Regional Comparisons Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Secret Government
Book SynopsisPolitical philosophers and theorists spend their time analysing political institutions, but thus far have ignored transparency. This book offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of transparency in government, examining both abstract normative defences of transparency and transparency's role in the theory of institutional design.Trade Review'… Secret Government impressively and provocatively decenters publicity as a democratic value.' Mark Fenster, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Publicity in history; 2. Democracy thrives in darkness; 3. Open versus closed deliberation; 4. Publicity and the rule of law; 5. Government house moral theory; 6. Seeing justice done; 7. Mutual knowledge of justice; 8. Putting the philosopher in the model; Conclusion.
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Celadon Books The January 6th Report
Book Synopsis**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**NOTE: The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts.Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. In a resolution six months later, the House of Representatives called it one of the darkest days of our democracy, and established a special committee to investigate how and why the attack happened.Celadon Books, in collaboration with The New Yorker, presents the committee''s final report, the definitive account of January 6th and what led up to it, based on more
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Regulations Press CFR 14 Parts 200 to 1199 Aeronautics and Space
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Regulations Press CFR 21 Part 1300 to End Food and Drugs April 01
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Regulations Press CFR 27 Parts 40 to 399 Alcohol Tobacco Products
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