Sistem politic

From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi’s legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby D …

Winner of the 2023 Virginia Literary Award in Nonfiction, awarded by the Library of Virginia The transformation of Governor Ralph Northam Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s ‘blackface scandal’ could h …

In Search of George Washington (The Story of the 28th Amendment) chronicles the amazing flashback that was the ‘Prairie Fire’ that swept the country over 18 months in 2012 and 2013. See how America c …

The recall, or ‘election in reverse, ‘ is meant to allow voters to remove an elected official from office prior to the completion of his/her term in office. In this revised second edition of The Reca …

In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities acros …

The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as ‘phonegate’, that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990’s in which a number of legislators were found to have been abu …

Congress possesses broad regulatory powers, including the power of complete or partial preemption of state and local regulatory powers. Congress rarely enacted preemption statutes before the twentiet …

Relations between state governments and their respective local governments are of crucial importance, yet they have remained largely unexplored by scholars. This neglect is all the more surprising in …

Cooperative interstate relations are essential for maintaining the economic and political union established by the United States Constitution. Despite this importance, interstate compacts, federal-st …

Has Texas always been one of the United States’ most conservative states? The answer might surprise you. Bootstrap Liberalism offers a glimpse into the world of Depression-era Texas politics, reveali …