The Elected Monarch
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The Role Of Monarchy In Modern Democracy
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Author : Robert Hazell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-17
The Role Of Monarchy In Modern Democracy written by Robert Hazell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Law categories.
How much power does a monarch really have? How much autonomy do they enjoy? Who regulates the size of the royal family, their finances, the rules of succession? These are some of the questions considered in this edited collection on the monarchies of Europe. The book is written by experts from Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It considers the constitutional and political role of monarchy, its powers and functions, how it is defined and regulated, the laws of succession and royal finances, relations with the media, the popularity of the monarchy and why it endures. No new political theory on this topic has been developed since Bagehot wrote about the monarchy in The English Constitution (1867). The same is true of the other European monarchies. 150 years on, with their formal powers greatly reduced, how has this ancient, hereditary institution managed to survive and what is a modern monarch's role? What theory can be derived about the role of monarchy in advanced democracies, and what lessons can the different European monarchies learn from each other? The public look to the monarchy to represent continuity, stability and tradition, but also want it to be modern, to reflect modern values and be a focus for national identity. The whole institution is shot through with contradictions, myths and misunderstandings. This book should lead to a more realistic debate about our expectations of the monarchy, its role and its future. The contributors are leading experts from all over Europe: Rudy Andeweg, Ian Bradley, Paul Bovend'Eert, Axel Calissendorff, Frank Cranmer, Robert Hazell, Olivia Hepsworth, Luc Heuschling, Helle Krunke, Bob Morris, Roger Mortimore, Lennart Nilsson, Philip Murphy, Quentin Pironnet, Bart van Poelgeest, Frank Prochaska, Charles Powell, Jean Seaton, Eivind Smith.
Guide To Electoral Fraud
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Author : Tah Asongwed
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004
Guide To Electoral Fraud written by Tah Asongwed and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Humor categories.
GUIDE TO ELECTORAL FRAUD Loser take all By Tah Asongwed Some people mistakenly thought elections could be fraud free until they witnessed a form of electoral fraud practiced in the United States of America during the 2000 presidential elections. Until then, it had always been assumed that electoral fraud was a plague that affected mainly developing countries, especially African countries where elections, by their very nature and definition, are fraud-stained. Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) is a very original and professional work of art that lays down the broad strokes of electoral fraud actions that can be undertaken by any individual or group of individuals aspiring to an elective office. While its main focus is Africa, there is no doubt that politicians and readers all over the world will find it extremely useful. Everywhere on the African continent, people at all levels are involved in an oedipal struggle for survival and regeneration and clamoring for the right to take part in selecting those who should reign over them. This is a basic, fundamental, and legitimate quest for self-development because no people, no matter how lowly, can accept to carry the yoke of oppression indefinitely. Moreover, people want to believe the illusion that elections produce good leaders. President Gaulus Machando Mayabi has felt obliged to draw the attention of the world, and particularly that of incumbent and aspiring African tribal president-monarchs, to what they need to do to continue maintaining themselves in power by force so as to keep their people in abject subjugation and their countries on the straight and downward road to political, economic, and cultural ruin. There comes a time in the political life of nations and in the political fortunes of leaders when someone, preferably a man of honor and integrity like President Gaulus Machando Mayabi, has to take up the gauntlet in the defense of his fellow African tribal president-monarchs and himself under the pretext that he is defending the nation and its institutions. Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) has therefore been written to cater primarily to the interests of reigning tribal African president-monarchs. But beyond serving the needs of African tribal president-monarchs and aspiring candidates for elective office, it is also intended to serve a much wider and composite audience made up of international observers, donor countries, foreign embassy staff, international spy networks, political scientists, African and foreign politicians, students of politics, human rights organizations, etc. Although most African tribal president-monarchs are already very familiar with the methods described in this book, it is hoped that the book will serve as a ready reckoner and as a kind of vade mecum so that each time they want to organize an election, all they have to do is pick up the book and refer to the appropriate recipe, and then use their imagination to concoct the menu they want to serve their people. Their imagination is therefore the limit. Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) is an elections rulebook and the holy grail of election malpractice. It rightly parts the curtains for the world to peep inside the dark kitchen where African elections are cooked. The reader will be able to take a glimpse at the soot-stained white chefs and advisers of African tribal president-monarchs while sniffing the suffocating stench of the elections mishmash. Chances are that readers will be knocked out instantly by the black pall of smoke from the kitchen but, hopefully, the smoke shouldn't take long to clear for them to see through the election smokescreen and behold the stark nudity of the African tin gods sitting round the fireplace and stirring the election cauldron. There is no doubt that Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) will fill the yawning gap that exists in the world's knowledge about the way undemocratic elections are con
Comparative Constitutional Design
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Author : Tom Ginsburg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-27
Comparative Constitutional Design written by Tom Ginsburg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with Law categories.
Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.
The Oxford Handbook Of Danish Politics
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Author : Peter Munk Christiansen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-06-11
The Oxford Handbook Of Danish Politics written by Peter Munk Christiansen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with Political Science categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics provides the most comprehensive and thorough English language book on Danish politics ever written. It features chapters by 50 leading experts who have contributed extensively to the field they write about. Why is Denmark an interesting topic for a Handbook? In some respects, Danish political institutions and political life are very similar to that of other small, North European countries such as the other Scandinavian countries and Netherland. However, in other respects, Danish politics is interesting in its own right. For instance, Denmark has a world record in minority governments. According to standard scholarly knowledge, this should result in unstable governments and a bad economy. This is not the case, however, since Denmark has a rather stable political system and a strong and robust economy among the strongest in Europe. How? The Danes have continued reservations towards the EU despite close to 50 years of EC/EU membership, and the Danes rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Still, the EU issue is handled in ways that do not call for large political battles. How? A third example is that Denmark used to be known as a tolerant and liberal society; its Jews were almost all saved during German occupation during WWII, Denmark was the first country to free pornography, and the first country to formally register same-sex couples. Yet recent Danish politics has also been associated with xenophobia and anti-Muslim sentiments. Why?
The Monarchy And The Constitution
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Author : Vernon Bogdanor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-11-09
The Monarchy And The Constitution written by Vernon Bogdanor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-11-09 with Political Science categories.
In the increasingly questioning world of the 1990s, the role of the monarchy in a democracy is again coming under scrutiny. Its critics argue that the monarchy is a profoundly conservative institution which serves to inhibit social change; that it has outlived its usefulness; that it symbolizes and reinforces deference and hierachy; and that its radical reform is therefore long overdue.Rejecting these arguments Vernon Bogdanor makes a powerful case for the positive role that monarchy plays in modern democratic politics. Ranging across law, politics, and history he argues that far from undermining democracy, the monarchy sustains and strengthens democratic institutions; that constitutional monarchy is a form of government that ensures not conservatism but legitimacy.The first serious examination of the political role of the monarchy to appear in many years, this book will make fascinating reading for all those interested in the monarchy and the future of British politics.
Judicial Monarchs
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Author : William J. Watkins, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-01-09
Judicial Monarchs written by William J. Watkins, Jr. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-09 with Political Science categories.
Who has the final say on the meaning of the Constitution? From high school to law school, students learn that the framers designed the Supreme Court to be the ultimate arbiter of constitutional issues, a function Chief Justice John Marshall recognized in deciding Marbury v. Madison in 1803. This provocative work challenges American dogma about the Supreme Court's role, showing instead that the founding generation understood judicial power not as a counterweight against popular government, but as a consequence, and indeed a support, of popular sovereignty. Contending that court power must be restrained so that policy decisions are left to the people's elected representatives, this study offers several remedies--including term limits and popular selection of the Supreme Court--to return the American people to their proper place in the constitutional order.
God Save The Queen
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Author : Dennis Altman
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2021-08-03
God Save The Queen written by Dennis Altman and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Political Science categories.
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies. When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be five monarchs left at the end of the century: the kings of hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades, and England. To date, his prediction has proved wrong, and while the twentieth century saw the collapse of monarchies across Europe, many democratic societies have retained them. God Save the Queen is the first book to look at constitutional monarchies globally, and is particularly relevant given the pro-democracy movement in Thailand and recent scandals around the British and Spanish royal families. Is monarchy merely a feudal relic that should be abolished, or does the division between ceremonial and actual power act as a brake on authoritarian politicians? And what is the role of monarchy in the independent countries of the Commonwealth that have retained the Queen as head of state? This book suggests that monarchy deserves neither the adulation of the right nor the dismissal of the left. In an era of autocratic populism, does constitutional monarchy provide some safeguards against the megalomania of political leaders? Is a President Boris potentially more dangerous than a Prime Minister Boris?
The Preliminary History To The Election Of Eadward The Confessor 1873
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Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The Preliminary History To The Election Of Eadward The Confessor 1873 written by Edward Augustus Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Great Britain categories.
Democratic Transition In Bhutan
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Author : Sonam Kinga
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Democratic Transition In Bhutan written by Sonam Kinga and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Political Science categories.
This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy. A political ethnography, it focuses on the historic elections of 2007–2008, and studies democracy and its transformational processes from the ground up. It draws on historical as well as contemporary theories about kingship and regime change to analyse Bhutan’s nascent democratic process and reflect on the direction of political change, both at the state and local levels in the aftermath of the elections. It also presents insights into the electoral and political process by giving a first-hand account of the author’s own participation in the elections and ponders on the larger political implications of this election for the region. A strong theoretical discussion situated in robust fieldwork and personal experience, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of politics, especially comparative politics and political institutions, South Asian and Himalayan Studies, political sociology and social anthropology.
The Emperor S Old Clothes
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Author : Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-08
The Emperor S Old Clothes written by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08 with History categories.
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together. What determined the rules (and whether they were followed) depended on complex symbolic-ritual actions. By examining key moments in the political history of the Empire, the author shows that it was a vocabulary of symbols, not the actual written laws, that formed a political language indispensable in maintaining the common order.