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Why do protesters sometimes take to the streets to demand lower taxes on the rich? In this urgently relevant study, sociologist Isaac William Martin examines how these protesters used tactics that they learned in movements of the poor and powerless-and sometimes won big.

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Delegated legislation --- Corporate governance --- Législation déléguée --- Gouvernement d'entreprise --- Corporate governance. --- Delegated legislation. --- Periodicals --- Law --- General and Others --- Politics & Government (General) --- Government Regulation. --- Administrative regulations --- Administrative rules --- Decree laws --- Delegation of legislative power --- Quasi-legislation --- Regulations, Administrative --- Rules, Administrative --- Subordinate legislation --- Subsidiary legislation --- Governance, Corporate --- Delegation of powers --- Executive power --- Legislation --- Legislative power --- Separation of powers --- Industrial management --- Directors of corporations --- Law, General & Comparative --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Public administration

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This book advances a new reading of the central works of Carl Schmitt and, in so doing, rethinks the primary concepts of constitutional theory. In this book, Jacques de Ville engages in a close analysis of a number of Schmitt’s texts, including Dictatorship (1921), The Concept of the Political (1927), Constitutional Theory (1928), Land and Sea (1942), Ex Captivitate Salus (1950), The Nomos of the Earth (1950) and The Theory of the Partisan (1963). This engagement takes place from the perspective of constitutional theory and focuses specifically on concepts or themes such as sovereignty, the state, the political, constituent power, democracy, representation, the constitution and human rights. The book seeks to rethink the structure of these concepts in line with Derrida’s analysis of Schmitt’s texts on the concept of the political in Politics of Friendship (1993). This happens by way of an analysis of Derrida’s engagement with Freud and other psychoanalysts. Although the main focus in the book is on Schmitt’s texts, it further examines two texts of Derrida (Khōra (1993) and Fors: The Anglish Words of Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok (1976)), by reading these alongside Schmitt’s own reflections on the positive concept of the constitution.

State, The. --- Constitutional law --- Constituent power. --- Philosophy. --- Legislative power --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- derrida, Jacques. --- Schmitt, Carl, --- Schmitt-Dorotić, Carl, --- Dorotić, Carl Schmitt-, --- Shumitto, Kāru, --- Shmitt, Karl, --- שמיט, קרל, --- Šmit, Karl, --- Derrida, Jacques. --- analysis --- constituent --- power --- schmitts

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Many efforts have been undertaken to address dysfunctional security sector governance in West Africa. However, security sector reform (SSR) has fallen short of radical – transformational – change to the fundamental structures of power and governance in the region. Looking more closely at specific examples of SSR in six West African countries, Learning from West African Experiences in Security Sector Governance explores both progress and reversals in efforts by national stakeholders and their international partners to positively influence security sector governance dynamics. Written by eminent national experts based on their personal experiences of these reform contexts, this study offers new insights and practical lessons that should inform processes to improve democratic security sector governance in West Africa and beyond. De nombreux efforts ont ete deployes afin d'ameliorer la gestion defaillante du secteur de la securite en Afrique de l'Ouest. Mais il ne suffit pas d'instaurer une reforme du secteur de la securite (RSS) pour changer de maniere radicale, voire transformationnelle, la structure fondamentale du pouvoir et de la gouvernance dans la region. A partir de plusieurs exemples de RSS dans six des pays ouest-africains, l'ouvrage Gouvernance du secteur de la Securite: Lecons des experiences ouest-africaines examine non seulement les progres accomplis par des acteurs nationaux et leurs partenaires internationaux en vue de renforcer la dynamique de la gouvernance du secteur de la securite, mais aussi les revers. Redigee par d'eminents experts nationaux, auteurs ayant puise dans leur experience personnelle de ces contextes de reforme, l'etude livre des enseignements novateurs et pragmatiques visant a faciliter la mise en oeuvre d'une gouvernance democratique du secteur de la securite en Afrique de l'Ouest et au-dela.

Civil-military relations --- Civil supremacy over the military --- National security --- Security sector --- Homeland security sector --- Internal security sector --- National security sector --- Public administration --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Military policy --- Civilian control of the military --- Supremacy of the civil authority --- Constitutional law --- Executive power --- Legislative power --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Government policy --- Security, International --- Collective security --- International security --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace

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Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era.By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon—Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the midtwentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties.By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions.By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.

Politique et gouvernement --- Pouvoir legislatif --- Pouvoir judiciaire --- Droits civils et politiques --- Pouvoir constituant --- Politics and government. --- Legislative power --- Judicial power --- Constituent power --- Civil rights --- Civil rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil liberties --- Constitutional rights --- Fundamental rights --- Rights, Civil --- Constitutional law --- Human rights --- Political persecution --- Judiciary --- Justiciability --- Power, Judicial --- Courts --- Implied powers (Constitutional law) --- Judicial independence --- Separation of powers --- Power, Legislative --- Judicial review --- États. --- U.S. states. --- States. --- Law and legislation --- United States. --- United States --- Legal history