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Media, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? Deploying a novel technique to elicit honest opinions, this book finds far more consensus than division, revealing broad support for decisions that favor traditionally underrepresented groups.

Media, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? Deploying a novel technique to elicit honest opinions, this book finds far more consensus than division, revealing broad support for decisions that favor traditionally underrepresented groups.

Outside of the United States, four nations limit legislative terms constitutionally: Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, and the Philippines. In the latter two countries, the term limits have not been in place long enough to provide data for analysis. This study therefore tests the central arguments made by both supporters and opponents of such reform by primarily examining the experience of Costa Rica, the only long-term democracy to impose term lim...

This book tests the central arguments made by both supporters and opponents of legislative term limits.

Do term limits revolutionize the behavior of state legislators?

Do term limits revolutionize the behavior of state legislators?

Drawing on a diverse range of case studies in both the Old World of Europe and the New World of the European settler societies in the United States, Australia and New Zealand this volume offers an original perspective on the conduct of church-state relations and how these have been reshaped by translation from the Old to the New Worlds.

This book offers a theory that predicts when executives should turn to decree and when legislatures should accept this method of policy-making.

When presidents or prime ministers make law by decree, are we witnessing the usurpation of legislative authority The increased frequency of policy-making by decree, in older democracies as well as in the newer regimes of Latin America and the post-communist world, has generated concern that legislatures are being marginalized and thus that democratic institutions are not functioning. Professors Carey and Shugart suggest which elements of const...

Carey examines individualistic and collective representation in democracies and how it is shaped by legislative party unity.

Carey examines individualistic and collective representation in democracies and how it is shaped by legislative party unity.