This work provides a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of state expansion of federally guaranteed constitutional liberties. In a series of constitutional provisions, reports and debates from state constitutional conventions, state and federal cases, litigation briefs, and scholarly articles drawn from the fields of law and political science, it traces the jurisprudential foundations for an independent state constitutional law. The author illustrates the range of liberty-expanding constitutional rulings by state courts, and sets out the key debates that presently engage judges and...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

What sustains teaching in Japan, and what is pressing teaching to change? Presenting a cultural perspective based on ethnographic data, this book, in two parts, also offers a broad and integrated view of teaching in Japan. Part one presents an up-to-date analysis of teaching in Japan, while part two offers a detailed ethnographic account of teaching as reflected in the process of learning to teach.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and America's ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination. This is the first volume in a three-volume set that brings together all the major legal cases and the most influential articles on the legal and historical arguments of this issue. Available as a set or as single volumes: volume 1 Race and Voting - the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (0-8153-4065-6); volume 2 The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act - Enforcement, Challenges and Barriers (0-8153-4066-4); and...

The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and America's ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination. This is the second volume in a three-volume set that brings together all the major legal cases and the most influential articles on the legal and historical arguments of this issue. Available as a set or as single volumes: volume 1 Race and Voting - the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (0-8153-4065-6); volume 2 The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act - Enforcement, Challenges and Barriers (0-8153-4066-4); and...

The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and its ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.