Courting Power
Title | Courting Power PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Shepard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134827261 |
This text chronicles a change in epistolary persuasion in the 1230's, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250. There, traditional appeals, premised on authority and harmony, were challenged by letters in which historical circumstances functioned as an integral part of the strategy of persuasion. Based on the close reading of "Artes Dictandi", as well as a series of letters issued from the papal and imperial chanceries, this book explores the theory and practice of medieval letter-writing. Letters are evaluated as verbal acts intended to persuade, with the public as the ultimate arbiter of success. The author argues that the form, proportion and style of letters were contoured by ideology.
Courting Disaster
Title | Courting Disaster PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Pages | 320 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1418560707 |
Courting Power
Title | Courting Power PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Shepard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134827334 |
This text chronicles a change in epistolary persuasion in the 1230's, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250. There, traditional appeals, premised on authority and harmony, were challenged by letters in which historical circumstances functioned as an integral part of the strategy of persuasion. Based on the close reading of "Artes Dictandi", as well as a series of letters issued from the papal and imperial chanceries, this book explores the theory and practice of medieval letter-writing. Letters are evaluated as verbal acts intended to persuade, with the public as the ultimate arbiter of success. The author argues that the form, proportion and style of letters were contoured by ideology.
The Nature of Supreme Court Power
Title | The Nature of Supreme Court Power PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew E. K. Hall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2010-12-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139495399 |
Few institutions in the world are credited with initiating and confounding political change on the scale of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is uniquely positioned to enhance or inhibit political reform, enshrine or dismantle social inequalities, and expand or suppress individual rights. Yet despite claims of victory from judicial activists and complaints of undemocratic lawmaking from the Court's critics, numerous studies of the Court assert that it wields little real power. This book examines the nature of Supreme Court power by identifying conditions under which the Court is successful at altering the behavior of state and private actors. Employing a series of longitudinal studies that use quantitative measures of behavior outcomes across a wide range of issue areas, it develops and supports a new theory of Supreme Court power.
The Nature of Supreme Court Power
Title | The Nature of Supreme Court Power PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew E. K. Hall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-09-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781107617827 |
Few institutions in the world are credited with initiating and confounding political change on the scale of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is uniquely positioned to enhance or inhibit political reform, enshrine or dismantle social inequalities, and expand or suppress individual rights. Yet despite claims of victory from judicial activists and complaints of undemocratic lawmaking from the Court's critics, numerous studies of the Court assert that it wields little real power. This book examines the nature of Supreme Court power by identifying conditions under which the Court is successful at altering the behavior of state and private actors. Employing a series of longitudinal studies that use quantitative measures of behavior outcomes across a wide range of issue areas, it develops and supports a new theory of Supreme Court power. Matthew E. K. Hall finds that the Court tends to exercise power successfully when lower courts can directly implement its rulings; however, when the Court must rely on non-court actors to implement its decisions, its success depends on the popularity of those decisions. Overall, this theory depicts the Court as a powerful institution, capable of exerting significant influence over social change.
Report of the Attorney General of the State of Idaho for the Years ...
Title | Report of the Attorney General of the State of Idaho for the Years ... PDF eBook |
Author | Idaho. Office of the Attorney General |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Attorneys general's opinions |
ISBN |
Digest of selected opinions incorporated in the report: 1905-06, 1909-10.
A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
Title | A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | J. Kendrick Kinney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |