Product Description: The second of a three-volume set, this work addresses the key challenges facing the contemporary nation state from a global perspective with a special emphasis on the Middle East and Israel. Reflecting research conducted under the auspices of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Nation State Project, this volume examines the role of religion in the nation state and the tension between nationality and religion as it is expressed today in society, politics, law, and culture...read more

Product Description: For the last two centuries, the nation state has posed a formidable challenge to multinational empires. It has served as a base for modernization, secularization and democratization – and also for the formation of totalitarian regimes...read more

Product Description: A study of the political system in the late Republic, dealing with the various ways in which electoral support was mobilised and victory procured at the polls. It deals with the elections to both the tribal and centuriate assemblies which chose the lower and higher magistrates of the Republic; and with every kind of canvassing by aspiring candidates employed not only in elections, but in climbing the ladder of th...read more