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"The #1 bestselling author of Profiles in Corruption and Secret Empires, Peter Schweizer, is back with his next blockbuster. This time, the six-time bestselling author will expose how foreign governments influence Washington"--
That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. Schweizer shows that a number of American elites are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony. He...
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Parties are the dominating forces behind politics and government in the United States today. Modern Political Parties examines the two major political parties and several smaller ones. Clear text, helpful sidebars, and color photographs give readers a compelling overview of this important subject. Features include fast facts, a table of contents, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
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Journalist Rich Miniter uses his unparalleled access to sources and stories throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. He paints a devastating portrait of how close the U.S. military was to killing bin Laden--on multiple occasions--and how, each time, Clinton dropped the ball and allowed bin Laden to grow stronger and more dangerous.
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The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstream political party to defend their interests. However, no such party exists. These men and women cannot connect their declining fortunes and growing frustrations to their true cause. Instead, immigrants...
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The first comparative analysis of minority conservatism
In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to occupy an awkward and contested political position. Dillard explores the philosophies, politics,...
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El principal mérito de este trabajo consiste en que el autor, con potente originalidad, toma el complejo y multívoco concepto de comunidad para adentrarse en la comprensión del ser-en-común propio del peronismo clásico para, desde allí, darnos que pensar y darnos qué pensar en torno a los desafíos más acuciantes del mundo contemporáneo.
'Fenomenología del peronismo' tiene otra gran virtud: está muy bien escrito. El aparato conceptual y...
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Everyone's interested in U.S. politics. They want to know how the Republicans became the party of the rich, and Democrats became so damned liberal. History buffs often ponder the origin and changes that took place in the Republican Party since its inception long before the Civil War. Through the help of researchers, the history has come to light, including the beginnings before calling themselves Republicans. Then, the Early Republicans and the Civil...
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La Transición a la democracia es sin duda uno de los procesos que más interés ha despertado no sólo entre los investigadores sino también entre el público general. Su complejidad se hace evidente si tenemos en cuenta que el propio proceso acabó por engullir a la elite que lo había orquestado. En este libro el lector encontrará un análisis que contempla la evolución de la UCD valenciana, y proporciona algunas de las claves para comprender...
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A biography of the person seen by many as the honest face of Australian politics, this intimate exploration of Bob Brown's world details his difficult adolescence, shy struggles with sexuality, search for intimacy, and conversion from conservative country doctor to environmental activist and political revolutionary.
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The junior partner secured control of the Environment and Energy ministries, irritating some in the larger party with its pursuit of a ban on stag hunting, the introduction of civil partnerships for same-sex couples and restrictions on planning. An unprecedented crisis in the State's finances, with an exposure of the deeply flawed Irish banking system, shook the party's grassroots and its vote collapsed in the local and European elections in June...
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Imagine the informed Thomas Friedman (of the World is Flat), the provocative Christopher Hitchens (The Trial of Henry Kissinger) and the witty Maureen Dowd (Bush World) producing daily commentaries on international current events. And that is what Anthony Livingston Hall, author of the The iPINIONS Journal weblog, offers in this riveting review of the major events of 2005.
So, if you're tired of partisan talking points masquerading as informed debate,...
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Junto con las figuras de todos conocidas, como Pablo Iglesias, Íñigo Errejón, Carolina Bescansa o Juan Carlos Monedero, que despliegan su versión más personal de los acontecimientos vividos, en Podemos. Una historia colectiva Manuel Guedán nos descubre también las voces de otros miembros del equipo, que nos revelan los secretos de su trabajo, sus errores, sus emociones y desencantos, y las anécdotas de unos meses donde todo fue posible. A...
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Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support? Based on the opinions and voices of lower and middle...
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Victor Gold wants his party back. Gold is the former press aide to Barry Goldwater and the former speechwriter and senior advisor for George H. W. Bush. He is incensed that the Neo-Cons and the Evangelical Right have betrayed the ideals of the conservative cause. Now he's fighting back. A Republican insider for 40 years, Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the GOP's soul, the elder Bush's opinion of his son's presidency, the significance...
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A timely analysis of political parties in the United States from 1787 to the present. It is little known that political parties were seen in the United States as deleterious to civil society by the founding fathers. This book revisits the viewpoints expressed by the founding fathers about political parties. It is an exposition of the nature of political parties and how they have achieved and continue to maintain control of federal and state governments....
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Acknowledging that the Republican Party's compass is askew, former congressman Bob Beauprez makes the case for the GOP to return to its founding values and principles. Analyzing the successes, failures, and lost opportunities of the Republican-controlled Congress and White House, Beauprez identifies several crumbling foundations that led to the election defeats in 2006-including his own. He explains his own guiding principles by drawing upon his real-world...
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Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima-a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture-and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters...
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Volveremos, en los años setenta. Vamo a volvé, en 2019. ¿En qué consiste el Medioevo Peronista? ¿Por qué se produce su eterno-retorno? ¿Es cierto que nuestros días más felices siempre fueron peronistas? ¿Será que el peronismo es un intérprete legítimo de las aspiraciones de democracia y justicia social argentinas? ¿O será que las promesas enunciadas por la Leyenda Peronista y su hijo, el Relato Kirchnerista, son más importantes a la...
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¿Se puede realizar un Cambio Organizacional en una organización que en su esencia está concebida para ser rígida e inflexible?
Actualmente, las empresas buscan desarrollar una cultura organizacional que les permita adaptarse a los constantes cambios de su entorno, para así asegurar su supervivencia.
El autor plantea el desafío que representa para los sindicatos argentinos encarar este proceso de transformación, ya que su fuerte cultura organizacional,...
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