1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829397703321

Autore

Schultz David A (David Andrew), <1958->

Titolo

Election law and democratic theory / / David Schultz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57901-4

1-317-14529-1

1-4724-3497-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Election law, politics, and theory

Disciplina

342.73/0701

Soggetti

Election law - United States

Democracy - United States - Philosophy

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Theory?; 1 Theory: The Missing Piece in Election Law Scholarship and Adjudication; 2 Democratic Theory and American Politics; 3 Voting Rights; 4 Minority Rights and the Failure of Direct Democracy; 5 Representation and Reapportionment; 6 Political Parties; 7 Money, Politics, and Campaign Financing; Conclusion: Toward a Democratic Theory of Election Law; Index; Table of Cases

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a full-length examination of the political theories and principles and democratic values underlying current election law debates and the regulation of political campaigns and participants in the United States. Topics covered range from campaign finance reform, voting rights, reapportionment and ballot access to the rights of political parties, the media and other players in the system. It challenges much of the current debate in election law and argues for more discussion and development of a democratic political theory to support and guide election law jurisprudence.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819280703321

Titolo

Celtic-Norse relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 / / edited by Jón Viđar Sigurđsson and Timothy Bolton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2014

ISBN

90-04-25512-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Northern world, , 1569-1462 ; ; volume 65

Altri autori (Persone)

Jón Viđar Sigurđsson <1958->

BoltonTimothy

Disciplina

941.101

Soggetti

Vikings - Irish Sea Region

Vikings - Ireland

Irish Sea Region History To 1500 Congresses

Ireland Relations Scandinavia Congresses

Scandinavia Relations Ireland Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The genesis of this volume was in a conference held in Oslo University on 3-6 November 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Vikings' settlements in Ireland before 1014 / Clare Downham -- Names for the Vikings in Irish annals / C. Etchingham -- Saints' cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian influence -- Around the Cumberland coast and north of the Solway Firth / Fiona Edmonds -- The Kingdom of Man and the earldom of Orkney-some comparisons / Barbara E. Crawford -- No soil for saints: why was there no native royal martyr in Man and the Isles? / Ian Beuermann -- Slavery, power and cultural identity in the Irish Sea region, 1066-1171 / D. Wyatt -- Pagan myth and Christian doctrine / Jan Erik Rekdal -- Ceramic and cultural change in the Hebrides AD 500-1300 / Alan Lane -- Homeland-strange land-new land. Material and theoretical aspects of defining Norse identity in the Viking age / Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the



discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art-historical, religious-historical and philological views of the interaction and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Barbara Crawford, Claire Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Colmán Etchingham, Zanette T. Glørstad, John Hines, Alan Lane, Julie Lund, Jan Erik Rekdal and David Wyatt.