Tag: Constitutions

Free Download Alan J. Kuperman, "Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa: Preventing Civil War Through Institutional Design "
English | ISBN: 0812246586 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Each of Africa’s countries has a different constitutional design, is characterized by a unique culture and history, and faces different stresses that threaten to undermine political stability. Presenting the first database of constitutional design in all African countries, along with seven original case studies, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa explores the types of domestic political institutions that can buffer societies from destabilizing changes that otherwise increase the risk of violence.

Free Download Wim Voermans, "The Story of Constitutions "
English | ISBN: 1009385046 | 2023 | 406 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Today, 189 out of 193 officially recognised nation-states have a written constitution, and 75% of these have been ratified since 1975. How did this worldwide diffusion of constitutions come about? In this book, Wim Voermans traces the varied and surprising story of constitutions since the agricultural revolution of c.10,000 bce. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Voermans shows how human evolution, human nature and the history of thought have all played their part in shaping modern constitutions. Constitutions, in turn, have shaped our societies, creating imagined communities of trust and recognition that allow us to successfully co-operate with one another. Engagingly and wittily told, the story of constitutions is vital to understanding our world, our civilisations and, most significantly, ourselves.

Free Download What Should Constitutions Do? By Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr, Jeffrey Paul
2011 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 0521175534 | PDF | 4 MB
The essays in this volume–written by prominent philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars–address these questions and explore related issues. Some essays examine the basic purposes of constitutions and their status as fundamental law. Some deal with specific constitutional provisions: they ask, for example, which branches of government should have the authority to conduct foreign policy, or how the judiciary should be organized, or what role a preamble should play in a nation’s founding document. Other essays explore questions of constitutional design: they consider the advantages of a federal system of government, or the challenges of designing a constitution for a pluralistic society–or they ask what form of constitution best promotes personal liberty and economic prosperity.

Free Download Peter Gentzel, "The Forgotten Subject: Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds"
English | ISBN: 3658428716 | 2023 | 294 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The volume provides a critical inventory of existing concepts of the subject in communication studies research. In addition, concepts are developed in order to be able to analyze subjectivity in the context of current theoretical debates (including media sociology, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, practice theory, science and technology studies) as well as social, cultural and technical developments (including digitalization, mediatization, mobility and networking). Since subject conceptions are of central importance for any communication and media analyses, the volume fills a central gap in communication and media studies.

Free Download David E. Wilkins, "Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent"
English | ISBN: 0190096004 | 2023 | 504 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 33 MB
After decades of federal dominance and dependence, Native governments now command attention as they exercise greater degrees of political, economic, and cultural power. Given the weight and importance of many issues confronting Native peoples today, these governments arguably matter even more to their peoples and to the broader society than ever before. Native governments have become critically important as the chief providers of basic services and the authors of solutions to collective problems in their societies.

Free Download Climates & Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850 By Mark Harrison
1999 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0195646576 | PDF | 41 MB
The first major study of European attitudes towards India’s climate and their bearing on imperial expansion, this book shows how growing fears about racial degeneration led to the abandonment of plans for white colonization. It also considers European strategies for coping with Indian climate and explains the emergence of modern concepts of race.

Free Download Guy Laforest, Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, "The Constitutions that Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0773546073, 0773546065 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.5 mb
The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Quebec Act of 1774, the Constitutional Act of 1791, and the 1840 Act of Union. Great Canadian historians of the past take turns in providing unforgettable sketches and understandings of the actions of monumental figures such as Governors Murray, Carleton, and Elgin, British politicians from Pitt to Burke, Grey, and Durham, without forgetting the leading political and intellectual colonial figures such as Bédard, Papineau, La Fontaine, Mackenzie, and Baldwin. Gathering together the most renowned and representative works of constitutional scholarship, this anthology provides readers with an in-depth account of the events that would ultimately lead to the union of British colonies, the birth of the Dominion of Canada, and the rebirth of political autonomy in a colony known successively as Quebec, Lower Canada, Canada East, and once again Quebec in 1867. Following a general survey of the various constitutions enacted under British rule, this collection includes an equal number of commentaries by French- and English-speaking historians concerning each of the four constitutions to offer the most nuanced view of Canada?s origins to date.