Abusive Constitutional Borrowing outlines this phenomenon, how it succeeds, and what we can do to prevent it. This book address current patterns of democratic retrenchment and explores its multiple variants and technologies, considering the role of legitimating ideologies that help support different modes of abusive constitutionalism.

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph

With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years.

Examining public organizations at local, county, state, federal and international levels, this text analyzes how public agencies and organizations are failing to provide cost-effective services to their constituents, and describes how they can improve their performance by restructuring themselves.

This book discusses contemporary accountability and transparency mechanisms by presenting a selection of case studies. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in the areas of Constitutional Law and Politics.

Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in word and deed. Rorty challenges this lost generation to understand its potential role in the tradition of democratic intellectual labor that began with Whitman and Dewey.

Analysing diplomatic discourse, performance, and entangled agency, this work provides the first account of Kosovo's everyday making of statehood.