Konstitution: regeringsmakt & stat

Niccol Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli knew how q...

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Det grundläggande temat för denna bok är hur europarätten, och därvid främst unionsrätten, tillämpas med särskild inriktning på Sverige. Alla bokens kapitel behandlar detta tema utifrån olik...

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Classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power is refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power rem...

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Niccol Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli knew how q...

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At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Con...

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Det är över 25 år sedan som Sverige blev medlem i EU och även som Europakonventionen inkorporerades i svensk rätt. Både EU-rätten och konventionsrätten (europarätten) har utövat inflytande ö...

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One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared Diamond By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fai...

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"Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb." - Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist What's happening in global poli...

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Informed by a life lived under the oppressions of communism, ECtHR Judge Andrs Saj examines the fundamentals of constitutional systems of government, protection from tyranny, and promotion of freedom in this timely and important book.

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In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood. First published in 1516, "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religiou...

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In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great v...

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Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problemsterrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disea...

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The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction explores the major themes of American constitutional history--federalism, the balance of powers, property, representation, equality, rights, and security. Informed by the latest scholarship, each th...

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One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, n...

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Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the...

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After World War Two, 'fascist' became the F word of political debate to be applied liberally against anyone who left-wing polemicists disliked. But what did it really mean and what did its British supporters really stand for? In this pre-War ...

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Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. With a full English translation of the 1215 charter, Nicholas Vincent introduces the documen...

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Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and as a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been defended and applauded as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is rather than as it ought to be. In this editio...

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Widely heralded as a masterful (The Washington Post) and essential (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law offers the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments...

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Although Plato's celebrated work of philosophy describes a society which to some seems the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, it also raises enduring questions about politics, art, education and the general conduct ...

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Just before beginning his first term on January 20, 1993, President-Elect Clinton made a very strange request to close family friend and lawyer Webster Hubbell: "If I put you over there in justice I want you to find the answer to two questions for...

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In this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and event...

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In the last few years more and more Catholics have begun taking seriously Pope Leo XIII's teaching on the relationship between Church and state. As a result, they have come to see the fundamental deficiencies of the liberalism that has dominated W...

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"Sätter de kungliga äktenskapen i ett politiskt och socialt sammanhang, som jag aldrig har läst förut. Man förstår varför monarkin är viktig, vare sig man står på ena eller andra sidan." Magnus Utvik, SVT Gomorron Sverige "Givande o...

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Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement , Anarchy, State and Utopia remains one of the most theoretically trenchant and p...

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The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 17892020, Expanded Second Edition is a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book on US history, where the Supr...

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Joseph de Maistre is one of the greatest of all reactionary thinkers, and in this volume, three of his principal works are brought together unabridged. A leading voice defending the traditional order of throne and altar, Maistre distinguished hims...

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Mr. Beat Connects the Supreme Court History Right to You!Mr. Beat's The Power of Our Supreme Court is the Supreme Court book of decisions that affect the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. The real democracy of America unveiled. What does the...

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This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Arabic) in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi r...

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A New Statesman Book of the Year A critical analysis of the transformation of constitutionalism from an increasingly irrelevant theory of limited government into the most influential philosophy of governance in the world today. Constitutionalism i...

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