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“miiko kumar”

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  • Secrecy, Law and Society

    Edited by Greg Martin, Rebecca Scott Bray, Miiko Kumar ...
    Commentators have shown how a ‘culture of security’ ushered in after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 has involved exceptional legal measures and increased recourse to secrecy on the basis of protecting public safety and safeguarding national security. In this context, scholars have largely been preoccupied with the ways that increased security impinges upon civil liberties. While ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • How Democracies Die

    by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe—forces running rampant in the United States today—hailed as “a touchstone” (The New Yorker) that “comes at exactly the right moment” (The Washington Post)“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)“[Levitsky and ... Read more

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  • The Case for Impeachment

    by Allan J. Lichtman ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." — The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes, answers these questions, ... Read more

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

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  • Weak Courts, Strong Rights

    Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy

    by Conrado Hübner Mendes ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed ... Read more

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  • Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court

    by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr, Brett W. Curry, Bryan W. Marshall ...
    There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from each of the three models. In examining the modern Supreme Court, since Brown v. Board of Education, the book argues that decisions ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia

    by Po Jen Yap ...
    In a comprehensive examination of the constitutional systems of Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Po Jen Yap contributes to a field that has traditionally focussed on Western jurisdictions. Drawing on the history and constitutional framework of these Asian law systems, this book examines the political structures and traditions that were inherited from the British colonial government and the ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Power, Politics and the Emotions

    Impossible Governance?

    by Shona Hunter ...
    Series series Social Justice
    How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters?Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are sets of affective dynamics which complicate the already materially and symbolically ... Read more

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  • Sovereignty and Liberty

    A Study of the Foundations of Power

    by Amnon Lev ...
    The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication of ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and Constituent Power

    Without Model or Warranty

    by Illan Wall ...
    With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its authorised foundations and the possibilities of other human rights traditions were denied. The strife that once lay at the heart of human rights was forgotten in an increasing juridification. This book seeks to ... Read more

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  • What is a Democracy? US Government Textbook | Children's Government Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    If you're enjoying your freedom today, you should thank democracy! In this US government textbook for kids, your child will learn about the basics of democracy. The acquisition of knowledge should be made a fun experience in order to encourage progress. Reading is an effective means of knowledge acquisition and this book just makes it a bit more exciting. Use this book today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD