The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy, Paperback - Mark Tushnet

Twenty-first-century constitutions now typically include a new 'fourth branch' of government, a group of institutions charged with protecting const...

Shows how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. This bo...

Reducere. Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In t...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the perspectives of his...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James M. BuchananAuthor: Gordon TullockThe Calculus of Consent was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom B...

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This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion, through statistical analys...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Mark B. (California State University, Sacramento) BrownNumber of pages: 370Collection: The MIT PressPublication ...

In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasin...

The first three months of a baby's life is an outside-the-uterus period of intense development, a biological bridge from fetal life to preparation ...

Reducere. Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral argu...

In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great dea...

A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle socie...

DescriptionA stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot our democracy The presidential election of 2016 highlighte...

Description'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter'The single best book that I have read about the populist, authoritarian trend that is rem...

Subtitled, }From Russia With Cash: The Inside Story Of The Oligarchs{. The true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich. 'Meticul...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Miles RapoportNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 199 x 141 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. What happens when a democratic theory professor gets involved with the Democratic Party? In this political memoir, Claire Snyder-Hall shares lesson...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Olle (University of Oslo, Norway) ToernquistNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 15...

Planning Democracy is the story of India's historic experiment to marry democracy and central planning. In this engaging and innovative account, Ni...

Reducere. A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on. Hospitals are supposed to be places of ...

Reducere. The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annual...

Reducere. The prominent constitutional law scholar's fascinating (and yes, mind-boggling) argument that we don't need the Constitution after all For some, to...

Art, Money, Parties. New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art - Jonathan Harris

Offers liberal society a way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. This title argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democ...

Takes the complex subject matter of Constitutional Law and makes it easier to understand and digest. Professor Mark Alexander carefully explains th...

In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas...

Be inspired to live an altogether different kind of life rooted in a more radical kind of love. Long description: In his fresh and life-giving tran...

Reducere. "You can waste vast amounts of money by hiring the wrong lawyer while engaging in a high conflict divorce. Newman shows people the playbook and pro...

Reducere. Democracy and higher education are inextricably linked: universities not only have the ability to be key arbiters of how democracy is advanced, but...

Publisher: Middleton PressAuthor(s): Geoff GoslinIllustration(s): 120ill.M.Number of pages: 96Collection: Midland Main LinePublication date: 2003Di...

In recent years anti-constitutional populists have taken many countries by storm. They undermine institutional and constitutional brakes, protectio...

Everything preteen and teen boys need to know about their changing bodies and feelingsWritten by an experienced educator and her daughter in a reas...

Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note ...

Reducere. Woodrow Wilson, a disciple of Walter Bagehot, considered the United States Constitution to be cumbersome and open to corruption. He favored a parli...

"'A Federal Right to Education' explores connections between education, law, and democracy"--