Public Law within Government: Sustaining the Art of the Possible

Public Law within Government: Sustaining the Art of the Possible
T. P. B. Rattenbury | 2008-05-15 00:00:00 | Palgrave Macmillan | 256 | Public

This book casts a spotlight on a vital but poorly understood feature of the political process: the functioning within government of the public law rules that define and constrain it. Drawing on rich source material--one local authority's involvement in the epic central/local confrontation over local government spending in 1980s England--the book develops a multifaceted, timeless and widely applicable analysis of public law within government as a process of "sustaining the art of the possible."

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Constitutional Democracy in a Multicultural and Globalised World

Constitutional Democracy in a Multicultural and Globalised World
Thomas Fleiner,Lidija Basta Fleiner | 2009-02-01 00:00:00 | Springer | 670 | Public

The book is full of profound insights, stimulating reflections and ideas, and creative provocations, such as the authors continuous scepticism towards the liberal political and state theory . Defining the multicultural state as the essential political community of the 21^st century and redefining the basic concepts of the theory of state to that effect, the book may become a milestone in the history of political and state theory (Ulrich K. Preuss in the International Journal of Constitutional Law ) 2006, p. 576-581.

It is a great merit of Thomas Fleiner and Lidija R. Basta Fleiner that they identify both internal changes of a personal substrate of contemporary states and the challenges of globalization not only with an astonishing seismological sensitiveness; moreover, they do it in a manner, which distinguishes their book with regard to other works on the theory of the State. (Felix Hanschmann, in Kritische Justiz ) 2005, p. 207-213.

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