Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Government - General

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state s regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy. The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues that there are good reasons to suppose that our understandings of state power quiver with erotic undercurrents. The book maintains, more specifically, that the relationship between ideas of political authority and male same-sex desire is especially fraught. Through a series of case studies where a statesman s same-sex desire was put...

The monograph proceeds logically from the...

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians?

Raised Right pursues these questions through a cultural study of three iconic conservative figures: National Review editor William F. Buckley, Jr., President Ronald Reagan, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Examining their papers, writings, and rhetoric, Jeffrey R. Dudas identifies what he terms a...

Everyone knows the name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, but if you mention Nikunja Bihari Goswami, most people would shrug.
This largely unknown patriot of Bangladesh dedicated his life to Gandhi's ideals, all the time believing that good days were ahead for the people living on the Indian subcontinent.
Goswami left the house at seventeen and took shelter in an ashram, dedicating himself to serving the nation as Gandhi advised. Throughout the independence movement, he was at the forefront and imprisoned several times.
But in the end, he found that Gandhi had used religion...

Everyone knows the name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, but if you mention Nikunja Bihari Goswami, most people would shrug.
This largely unknown patriot of Bangladesh dedicated his life to Gandhi's ideals, all the time believing that good days were ahead for the people living on the Indian subcontinent.
Goswami left the house at seventeen and took shelter in an ashram, dedicating himself to serving the nation as Gandhi advised. Throughout the independence movement, he was at the forefront and imprisoned several times.
But in the end, he found that Gandhi had used religion...

Voice and Vision: Primary Source Readings on American Government and Democracy features timeless primary sources that define the American vision of liberty, justice, and equality and document challenges to this vision. The readings address topics such as American liberal ideology, slavery, the military-industrial complex, and the results of seminal Supreme Court cases like the Dred Scott decision and Brown v. Board of Education.

Organized into seven sections, the anthology presents the work of American leaders, nation-builders, defenders of democracy, and voices of...