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19 produkter
Private Property and the Constitution
Häftad, 1978
486 kr
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A study of the uncertain constitutional foundations of private property in American law and a discussion of two vastly different methods by which courts may resolve the confusion.
Future of Liberal Revolution
Häftad, 1994
363 kr
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Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their …
Stakeholder Society
Av Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott
Häftad, 2000
528 kr
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A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise …
Bush v. Gore
The Question of Legitimacy
Inbunden, 2002
839 kr
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The Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court’s …
Voting with Dollars
A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance
Häftad, 2004
528 kr
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In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of “secret donation booths” for campaign …
Deliberation Day
Av Bruce Ackerman, James S. Fishkin
Häftad, 2005
492 kr
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Two leading political thinkers offer an audacious proposal to energize the electoral processBruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that is crippling public life. They propose a new national …
Before the Next Attack
Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
Häftad, 2007
393 kr
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A leading political and legal thinker explains how to end the dangerous cycle of repression unleashed by the war on terrorTerrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first …
Postmodern Predicament
Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2024
349 kr
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One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The …
We the People, Volume 2
Transformations
Häftad, 2000
351 kr
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Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of …
Failure of the Founding Fathers
Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
Häftad, 2007
289 kr
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The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in 1800, the rules laid down by …
Decline and Fall of the American Republic
Häftad, 2013
289 kr
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Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper pathologies. Ackerman points to a …
We the People, Volume 1
Foundations
Häftad, 1993
320 kr
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Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation’s constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and future of popular sovereignty in America. Only this …
Revolutionary Constitutions
Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law
Inbunden, 2019
321 kr
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A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America’s most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars—the award-winning author of We the People.Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds—or so its critics would have us believe. But in his …
We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution
Häftad, 2018
237 kr
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The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman’s sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v. Board of Education. From Rosa Parks’s courageous defiance, to Martin Luther King’s resounding cadences in “I Have a Dream,” to Lyndon Johnson’s leadership of …
The Case Against Lame Duck Impeachment
Häftad, 1900
91 kr
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An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right …
Case Against Lame Duck Impeachment
E-bok, 2011
91 kr
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An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right …
Redesigning Distribution
Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
Av Anne Alstott, Bruce Ackerman m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
179 kr
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Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright. Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth? This book explores two proposals, unconditional …
Redesigning Distribution
Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
Av Anne Alstott, Bruce Ackerman m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright.Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth?This book explores two proposals, unconditional …
Constituciones revolucionarias
E-bok, 2026
176 kr
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En el camino hacia una democracia constitucional, diversos Estados han desarrollado distintas vias para el establecimiento de constituciones capaces no solamente de establecer un gobierno popular, sino tambien de mantener el orden democratico de sus naciones, incluso si ello era producto de …
