Aberbach, Joel D. & Mark A. Peterson (eds).

The executive branch.

Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, c2005. Paperback. xxxviii,590 pp. (Institutions of American democracy series). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Contents : General introduction : the executive branch as an institution of American constitutional democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan -- Introduction : presidents and bureaucrats : the executive branch and American democracy / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson -- The evolution of the presidency : between the promise and the fear / Scott C. James -- The evolution of national bureaucracy in the United States / Daniel Carpenter -- Giving direction to government in comparative perspective / Richard Rose -- Presidential elections and American democracy / Stephen J. Wayne -- The executive office of the president : the paradox of politicization / Matthew J. Dickinson -- Communicating from the White House : presidential narrowcasting and the national interest / Lawrence R. Jacobs -- The person of the president, leadership, and greatness / Fred I. Greenstein -- The complex organization of the executive branch : the legacies of competing approaches to administration / Colin Campbell -- The federal public service : the people and the challenge / Patricia W. Ingraham -- Caught in the middle : the president, Congress, and the political-bureaucratic system / Barry R. Weingast -- Reforming the executive branch of the U.S. government / Donald F. Kettl -- Executive power and political parties : the dilemmas of scale in American democracy / Sidney M. Milkis -- The executive branch and the legislative process / Andrew Rudalevige -- The courts, jurisprudence, and the executive branch / R. Shep Melnick -- Federalism and the executive branch / Thomas Gais and James Fossett -- Control and accountability : dilemmas of the executive branch / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson. ISBN 9780195309157.

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Allen, Carleton Kemp.

Bureaucracy triumphant.

Aalen : Scientia Verlag,1977. Reprint 1931-edition. Paperback. 148p. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : new. ISBN 9783511090616.

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Arato, Andrew.

The imposed revolution and its constitution : Iraqi constitutional politics during the American occupation.

New York : Columbia University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 376 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. This two-stage constitution-making paradigm, implemented in a wholly unplanned move by the Iraqis and their American sponsors, formed a kind of compromise between the populist-democratic project of Shi'ite clerics and America's external interference. As long as it was used in a coherent and legitimate way, the method held promise. Unfortunately, the logic of external imposition and political exclusion compromised the negotiations. Andrew Arato is the first person to record this historic process and analyze its special problems. He compares the drafting of the Iraqi constitution to similar, externally imposed constitutional revolutions by the United States, especially in Japan and Germany, and identifies the political missteps that contributed to problems of learning and legitimacy. Instead of claiming that the right model of constitution making would have maintained stability in Iraq, Arato focuses on the fragile opportunity for democratization that was strengthened only slightly by the methods used to draft a constitution. Arato contends that this event would have benefited greatly from an overall framework of internationalization, and he argues that a better set of guidelines (rather than the obsolete Hague and Geneva regulations) should be followed in the future. With access to an extensive body of literature, Arato highlights the difficulty of exporting democracy to a country that opposes all such foreign designs and fundamentally disagrees on matters of political identity. ISBN 9780231143028.

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Arkes, Hadley.

Beyond the Constitution.

Princeton : Princeton University Press,1990. Paperback. x,278p. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780691025544.

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Arkes, Hadley.

The Return of George Sutherland : restoring a jurisprudence of natural rights.

Princeton : Princeton University Press,1994. Paperback. xiv,297 pp. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780691016283.

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American Bar Association.

The rule of law in the United States. A survey.

New York,1955. Paperback. 184 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. to cooperate with the International Commitee of Jurists.

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Baer, Judith A.

Equality under the Constitution. Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press,1984. 2nd pr. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. 308p. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780801415555.

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Barbash, Fred.

The Founding: a dramatic account of the writing of the constition.

New York : The Linden Press,1987. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 286p. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780671552565.

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Barber, Sotirios A.

Welfare and the Constitution.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 184 pp. (New Forum Books). - Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or welfarist view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people. He shows that James Madison was right in saying that the real welfare of the people must be the supreme object of constitutional government. With conceptual rigor set in fluid prose, Barber opposes the shared view of America's Right and Left: that the federal constitutional duties of public officials are limited to respecting negative liberties and maintaining processes of democratic choice. Barber contends that no historical, scientific, moral, or metaethical argument can favor today's negative constitutionalism over Madison's positive understanding. He urges scholars to develop a substantive account of constitutional ends for use in critiquing Supreme Court decisions, the policies of elected officials, and the attitudes of the larger public. He defends the philosophical possibility of such theories while also offering a theory of his own as a starting point for the discussion the book will provoke. This theory holds, for example, that voucher schemes which drain resources from secular public schools to schools that would train citizens to submit to religious authority are unconstitutional; First Amendment issues aside, such schemes defeat what is undeniably an element of the real welfare of the people, individually and collectively: the capacity to think critically for oneself.English text. Condition : as new, clean & unread. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780691114484.

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Beck, James M.

The Constitution of the United States : Yesterday, today - and tomorrow?

New York : George H. Doran, c1925. 7th printing. Orig. cloth binding. 362 pp. Index. Binding bit worn on edges. Number in white ink on spine. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - James M. Beck (1861-1936) was appointed by President Warren G. Harding as Solicitor General of the United States in 1921 and served until his voluntary resignation in 1925, when he again resumed the practice of law. His conservative views were reflected in his 1924 book The Constitution of the United States. It was a best-seller, going through seven printings within ten months. A special edition of 10,000 copies, with a foreword by President-elect Calvin Coolidge, went to schools and libraries across the country.

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Berger, Raoul.

Impeachment: The constitutional problems.

Cambridge: Harvard,1996. 2nd enlarged ed. Reprint. Paperback. xiv,400 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780674444782.

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Binder, Sarah A.

Stalemate : causes and consequences of legislative gridlock.

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003., Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Gridlock is not a modern legislative condition. Although the term is said to have entered the American political lexicon after the 1980 elections, Alexander Hamilton complained about it more than two hundred years ago. In many ways, stalemate seems endemic to American politics. Constitutional skeptics even suggest that the framers intentionally designed the Constitution to guarantee gridlock. In Stalemate, Sarah Binder examines the causes and consequences of gridlock, focusing on the ability of Congress to broach and secure policy compromise on significant national issues. Reviewing more than fifty years of legislative history, Binder measures the frequency of deadlock during that time and offers concrete advice for policymakers interested in improving the institutional capacity of Congress. Binder begins by revisiting the notion of framers' intent, investigating whether gridlock was the preferred outcome of those who designed the American system of separated powers. Her research suggests that frequent policy gridlock might instead be an unintended consequence of constitutional design. Next, she explores the ways in which elections and institutions together shape the capacity of Congress and the president to make public law. She examines two facets of its institutional evolution: the emergence of the Senate as a coequal legislative partner of the House and the insertion of political parties into a legislative arena originally devoid of parties. Finally, she offers a new empirical approach for testing accounts of policy stalemate during the decades since World War II. These measurements reveal patterns in legislative performance during the second half of the twentieth century, showing the frequency of policy deadlock and the legislative stages at which it has most often emerged in the postwar period. Binder uses the new measure of stalemate to explain empirical patterns in the frequency of gridlock. The results weave together the effects of institutions and elections and place in perspective the impact of divided government on legislative performance. The conclusion addresses the consequences of legislative stalemate, assessing whether and to what degree deadlock might affect electoral fortunes, political ambitions, and institutional reputations of legislators and presidents. The results suggest that recurring episodes of stalemate pose a dilemma for legislators and others who care about the institutional standing and capacity of Congress. Binder encourages scholars, political observers, and lawmakers to consider modest reforms that could have strong and salutary effects on the institutional standing and legitimacy of Congress and the president. ISBN 9780815709107.

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Bosmajian, H. (ed.)

Justice Douglas and freedom of speech.

Metuchen : Scarecrow Press,1980. Orig. cloth binding. No dustjacket. xlii,335p. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780810812765.

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Bradley, Craig M.

The Rehnquist legacy.

Cambridge & New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006., Paperback. Remainder mark. xxi, 392 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780521683661.

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Bryce, James.

The American Commonwealth. Volume I :The National Government --The State Governments; Volume II : The Party System-Public Opinion-Illustrations and Reflections.

Third edition, completely revised throughout with additional chapters. New York : Macmillan, 1907. 3rd edition. 2 Volumes. Orig. cloth bindings. xix,726; vii,904 pp. Bit worn on edges. Heavy item. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FBA (1838-1922), was a British academic, jurist, historian, and Liberal politician. He was a widely-traveled authority on law, government, and history whose expertise led to high political offices culminating with his successful role as ambassador to the United States, 1907-13. His intellectual influence was greatest in The American Commonwealth (First published in 1888), an in-depth study of American politics that shaped the understanding of America in Britain and in the United States as well.

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