Product Description: This book is designed to be a contribution to the lessons the world can learn from the leadership in the American Revolutionary experience. The emphasis is on the transition from revolutionary to stable democratic leadership. The first part contains chapters by Garry Wills, Forest McDonald, and Barry Schwartz on 'Power Gained by Surrender,' 'Washington, Cato, and Honor,' and 'George Washington and a Whig Conception of Leadership,' respectively...read more

Product Description: This text is designed to be a contribution to the lessons the world can learn from the leadership in the American Revolutionary experience. The emphasis is on the transition from revolutionary to stable democratic leadership. Contributors include: Garry Wills, Forest McDonald, Barry Schwartz, Moshe Hazani, Gary Schmitt, Rozann Rothman, David Greenstone, Steven Spiegel...read more

Product Description: The author presents his theory of American political behaviour for all students of political science. Drawn together in this text are the outlines of several major themes and concepts essential to Elazar's understanding of the way the US political system works: American pluralism, historical change, federalism, urbanization and the metropolitan shift and the forces of political culture...read more

Product Description: This informative volume is comprised of various articles which examine specific issues relevant to authority and leadership in the Jewish community. The articles cover a vast number of cases and span a period of time from the biblical to the present...read more

Product Description: Analyzes the Jewish communities in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Ottoman rule, as well as the present.

Product Description: What is the distinctive character of America's cities? How have our metropolitan regions evolved since the Colonial period? What effect will local politics have on the future of the American city? These are the questions Daniel J...read more

Looks at political life in America in the fifteen years preceding the Civil War, examining how the breakdown in democratic politics contributed to the outbreak of war

Product Description: Reprinted with a new introduction, from the winter 1984 issue of PUBLIUS, these 17 articles represent an attempt to assess the state of the Canadian federal system, especially in the wake of the patriation of the Constitution in 1982...read more

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Product Description: The late Daniel J. Elazar was increasingly concerned with the distortions of democracy in contemporary society. In Commonwealth, he brought together a distinguished group of political scientists to examine the Swiss model of democracy, in its original emphasis on community, or the "commonwealth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective...read more

Product Description: Illustrates how the American Conservative Movement in Judaism can continue to prosper amidst ideological and institutional challenges. Viewing the Conservative Movement at a turning point, this book analyzes the problems facing the religious movement with the largest synagogue membership in the American Jewish community and outlines a plan of action for the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Israel today there is increasingly vigorous support for the framing of a constitution. At the same time there is almost no recognition that in forty years Israel has acquired an almost complete set of basic laws that form a constitution...read more

Constitutionalizing Globalization explores two converging trends: the spread of federalism and federal arrangements around the world, and the globalization taking place on the international scene. Daniel Elazar shows how globalization of the economy and the concern for global human rights bring with them the need for development of a constitutional order that will control both. The gradual development of appropriate constitutional mechanisms and controls are part of a general shift from modern statism to post-modern federalism. The reliance on the sovereignty of the nation state, which marked the era from the Treaty of Westphalin in 1648 to the end of World War II, gave way to the beginning of a world order which, while built on states, links those states in various ways through enforceable constitutional bonds. These trends have been recognized by both students of federalism and students of international relations. Constitutionalizing Globalization is the first book to join the perspectives of both in order to explain the new paradigm. It is important reading for students and scholars of constitutional issues, federalism, and international relations. (view table of contents)

Product Description: American, European, political, and theological histories intersect in this important new exploration of the founding of the United States. The Covenant Connection examines the way in which the Protestant Reformation and federal covenant theology, which lay at the foundation of Reformed Protestantism in its Calvinist version, played a major role in shaping the political life and ideas of the colonies of British North America and ultimately the new United States of America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea, human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God. Politically, this pact, or covenant, involves the coming together of basically equal humans who consent with one another through a morally binding pact, setting the partners on the road to a new task...read more

Product Description: This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it, Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book explores the decline of the political ideas of covenant and political compact as Americans passed from the Revolutionary period into the 19th century. A distinguished group of political scientists focus on the transformation from covenant to compact in the late 18th century, the diminishing use of both among intellectual and political pacesetters in the early 19th century, their partial revival at the time of the Civil War, and replacement by Social Darwinism in the late 19th century...read more

Product Description: A Double Bond examines the constitutional framework of American Jewry. The essays by Hannah Kliger and Nitza Druyan illuminate key parts of American Jewish history through their analysis of the constitutional documents of major Jewish institutions...read more