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Charles Gardner Geyh

"Efforts to check the power of the courts have come and gone throughout American history, from the Jeffersonian Congress's struggle to undo the work of the Federalists, to FDR's campaign to pack the Supreme Court, to the epic Senate battles over the Bork and Thomas nominations. If legislators were solely concerned with curbing the courts, Charles Gardner Geyh suggests, they would use direct means, such as impeaching uncooperative judges, gerrymandering their jurisdictions, stripping the bench's oversight powers, or slashing judicial budgets." "Yet, while Congress has long been willing to influence judicial decision-making indirectly by blocking the appointments of ideologically unacceptable nominees, it has, with only rare exceptions, resisted employing more direct methods of control. When Courts and Congress Collide is the first work to demonstrate that this balance is governed by a "dynamic equilibrium": a constant give-and-take between Congress's desire to control the judiciary and its respect for historical norms of judicial independence." "It is this dynamic equilibrium, Geyh says, rather than what the Supreme Court or the Constitution says about the separation of powers, that defines the limits of the judiciary's independence. When Courts and Congress Collide requires all of us to consider whether we are on the verge of radically disrupting our historic balance of governance."--BOOK JACKET.

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Alejandro R.H. Carbonell

La memoria incómoda es un testimonio personal de uno de los abogados que sobrevivieron a aquella espantosa matanza atribuida a la extrema derecha ocurrida en Madrid en 1977, en un despacho de abogados. En enero de 2017 se cumplen 40 años de aquéllos lamentables hechos que sucedieron en el umbral de la transición a la democracia en España. Cuatro abogados y un administrativo resultaron muertos y otros cuatro abogados heridos de gravedad. El libro (2002) escrito con la pulsión del instante y la serenidad del recuerdo cuenta aquellos hechos y muchos otros, que fueron consecuencia de aquel tiempo que trajo la libertad política a nuestro país. Esta es su tercera edición actualizada. Es un libro atípico, pero un testimonio imprescindible de la transición y por eso está en la calle; para que la historia de Atocha perviva en la memoria colectiva y como homenaje a los que murieron allí el 24 de Enero de 1977.

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Ian Stewart

Roasting Chestnuts: The Mythology of Maritime Political Culture is a book about outdated political stereotypes. The Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia are often regarded as a pre-modern hinterland in which corrupt practices and traditional loyalties continue to predominate. While this depiction of Maritime political life, may at one time, have been largely accurate, this is no longer the case. Employing a variety of indicators, this book argues that a new set of political images is needed to capture Maritime political reality today. What emerges from the analysis is a picture of Maritime politics which no longer differs markedly from that which exists in the rest of Canada. Maritimers no longer exhibit remarkably low levels of political trust and efficacy, nor is there a regional political culture which transcends provincial boundaries. In fact, Maritime political elites have been innovators, providing radical departures from Canadian political norms. A unique and innovative study, Roasting Chestnuts seeks to demystify Maritime politics and expose the flimsy basis for many of the region's lasting political stereotypes.

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Miron Rezun

"Based on the widest possible range of sources, including documentation in nearly every European language, this study will appeal to experts and laymen alike. Rezun refuses to take sides. In addition to his criticisms of foreign intervention, exaggerated statistics, and reverse ethnic cleansing, he is merciless in his condemnation of the Serbs, in particular the corrupt influence of Milosevic and the late Arkan. In a writing style laced with irony, wit, and satire, he reveals the foibles of limited war and the errors committed by all parties. Yet his primary focus remains the suffering of the men, women, and children who filled the refugee camps and the devastated villages to which they have returned."--BOOK JACKET.