The global public management revolution

Over the past quarter century, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts to reform the way they manage. Citizens have demanded smaller, cheaper, more effective governments while asking for more programs and better services. To resolve this paradox, governments are experimenting with many ideas ...

Filibuster

obstruction and lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the "filibuster," has been a defining feature of the U.S. Senate throughout its history. In this book, Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler explain how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the nineteenth and early twentieth ...

Congress and the Constitution

For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a sceptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress's capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate. This intensified judicial scrutiny highlights the need ...

Garantías constitucionales en la investigación penal

un estudio crítico de la jurisprudencia

Esta publicación es una herramienta de trabajo para abogados litigantes y operadores de la justicia penal, además de resultar un material útil para estudiantes y docentes de las universidades de Derecho. Esta obra, que conjuga una mirada teórica y práctica de la primera etapa del ...

The contemporary Constitution

modern interpretations

This book continues the author's discussion of the United States Constitution as an unfolding "work in progress." The Constitution was written and ratified more than 200 years ago, but it continues to guide the operations of our political system to this day. The Constitution ...

The evolution of a Constitution

eight key moments in british constitutional history

This new work casts light upon the British constitution of today by means of an in-depth consideration of eight key moments in British constitutional history. The historical perspective adopted in this book facilitates an informed and contextual understanding of the intricacies of the contemporary British ...

Derechos Fundamentales y Derecho penal

Claramente, desde distintas perspectivas y especialidades, en los trabajos de todos los autores aquí reunidos se puede identificar un denominador común: la preocupación no sólo teórica sino práctica de contribuir incesantemente al fortalecimiento del Estado de Derecho y con ello, a la construcción de la ...

Comunicación constitucional y fuerza normativa

Positivismo jurídico. Instrumentalización económica del derecho. Método. Fuerza normativa y sistema constitucional. Teorías y modelos de la comunicación social. El mensaje como contenido de la comunicación. El discurso como elemento constitutivo del mensaje. Semiología, psicología social y la comunicación de la legalidad constitucional.

Droit global Law

des droits au droit: les droits de la personne, fondement du Droit

Le passage des droits au droit résume l'expérience unique de l'Occident. C'est en attribuant des droits à la personne que le droit naît et se développe. Au-delà des différences d'approche, plusieurs professeurs étrangers nous le démontrent : les Allemands Rainer Frank, Rainer ...

Derecho constitucional

La presente obra comprende una primera parte general en torno al Derecho constitucional, abarcando el estudio de su origen, desenvolvimiento y relaciones con otras disciplinas, con especial referencia a los distintos tipos de Constituciones y sus características. La parte restante analiza el texto constitucional argentino ...

First freedoms

a documentary history of first amendment rights in America

"First Freedoms" incorporates documents that are drawn from the history of First Amendment rights in America - an ongoing experiment in freedom. Like all experiments, it is full of trial and error. The story of freedom in America recounted here is often painful and contentious - but ...

Diritti Fondamentali

un'introduzione

SOMMARIO: I. Libertà e diritti nello sviluppo storico del costituzionalismo (di P. Ridola). # I. I diritti costituzionali fra storia e dogmatica. # II. Le radici dello sviluppo storico dei diritti costituzionali. # III. Il costituzionalismo e i diritti. # IV. L#esperienza dello stato liberale. # V. I diritti ...

Democratic constitutional design and public policy

analysis and evidence

Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence. The variety of constitutional designs found in democratic governments has important effects on ...

Diritti fondamentali e interessi costituiti

.H. Talf Presidente della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti (1921-1930)

Dopo il volume sui due grandi presidenti del secondo dopoguerra (Giustizia costituzionale e diritti dell'uomo - I giudici Warren e Burger, a cura di Jeffrey Greebaum, 1992) e quello sul mitico Marshall (John Marshall. 'Judicial Review' e stato federale, a cura di Giuseppe Buttà, 1998 ...

Speaking freely

trials of the First Amendment

The rights guaranteed in the First Amendment#including freedom of expression#are among the fundamental touchstones of our democracy. In Speaking Freely, Floyd Abrams, who for over thirty years has been our most eloquent and respected advocate for uncensored expression, recounts some of the major ...

Active liberty

interpreting our democratic Constitution

A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. For Justice Breyer, the Constitution#s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls #active liberty#: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws ...

The global debate over constitutional property

lessons for american takings jurisprudence

Countries around the world are heatedly debating whether property should be a constitutional right. But American lawyers have largely ignored this debate, which is divided into two clear camps: those who believe making property a constitutional right undermines democracy by fostering inequality, and those who ...

30 ans de saisine parlementaire du Conseil Constitutionnel

colloque et publication en hommage à Louis Favoreu

Présentée par certains comme une révision sans importance, voire comme un " gadget ", l'instauration, à l'initiative du Président de la République M. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, de la saisine parlementaire du Conseil constitutionnel par la loi constitutionnelle du 29 octobre 1974 s'est révélée ...

Religion and the Constitution.Vol.1: Free exercise and fairness

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship? Should pacifists be ...

La Constitución multicultural

El caso de Colombia es paradigmático. Si bien en nuestro país la presencia histórica y cultural de grupos indígenas y de aforcolombianos es significativa, sus exigencias y necesidades casi nunca han sido consideradas por los filósofos o por los teóricos del derecho. Paradójicamente, en los ...