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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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Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp is a journey downriver...
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Donald Trump blindsided them all: the media, campaign consultants on both sides, and Hillary Clinton's vaunted data operation. Now two insiders -- Joel Pollak, senior editor-at-large for Breitbart News, eye-witness to the election from his unique position as the only conservative reporter aboard the Trump press plane in the last pivotal weeks of the campaign, and professional historian Larry Schweikart, whose "Renegade Deplorables" group of volunteer...
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In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor...
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"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
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Originally published in 1896, "Robert's Rules of Order," remains to this day the manual of choice when it comes to conducting orderly productive proceedings. As General Henry M. Robert describes in his preface to the work, "The object of Rules of Order is to assist an assembly to accomplish in the best possible manner the work for which it was designed. To do this it is necessary to restrain the individual somewhat, as the right of an individual,...
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Constitutional democracy is not just any old form of democracy. It has a peculiar logic and is premised upon some exacting criteria and principles including good laws and institutions predicated on specific fundamental core values and principles. But it is, when fully ingrained in the public sensibility, a sort of civic serum necessary to inoculate free citizens against the ravages of anti-democratic populism, authoritarianism, racism, nativism, discrimination,...
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Why do some nonviolent revolutions lead to successful democratization, while others fail to consolidate democratic change? And, what can activists do to push toward a victory over dictatorship that results in long-term political freedom? When Civil Resistance Succeeds: Building Democracy After Popular Nonviolent Uprisings (ICNC Press, 2018) by Jonathan Pinckney explores these questions, offering takeaways for a variety of readers interested in supporting...
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'So You Want to Run for Public Office' is a complete guide on how to become a successful candidate for public office. Learn how to define an election, raise money, conduct a survey, budget a campaign, devise and execute an advertising strategy, make the most of free media, and monitor the pressure points of a political campaign to keep it on track. This book includes real life examples of successes and failures, and valuable instruction on how to...
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Do NOT read this material if you are an old liberal, a Democrat, an Obama supporter, or have HIGH Blood Pressure. I was raised as a staunch Democrat in the mid-West. I hated Ronald Regan. How Regan actually brought me into the Republican party. A forgotten story about Hillary & Beethoven. In defense of our mid-East friend, Israel. A Critique of Washington corruption. I'm a card carrying member of that "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", you know, Americans...
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George Tsebelis is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics and coauthor of Bicameralism. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hoover National Fellowship, and a Russell Sage Fellowship, he has published numerous papers on the institutions of the European Union and on comparative institutional analysis.
Political scientists have long...
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After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will. Seidler argues that we need new political imaginations...
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Antonia Maioni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University.
As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability...
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Esta obra recopila las experiencias pedagógicas, a partir de su trabajo de investigación, de un grupo de profesores de las Facultades de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Rosario. Con el fi n de dar visibilidad a la laboral investigativa y pedagógica de los profesores de estas facultades. El texto presenta los diferentes métodos y técnicas en que cada uno de los investigadores realiza sus ejercicios académicos...
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What well-meaning Nigerians hope is that the Buhari administration meets their expectations in the change they desired and voted for. The administration should continue to learn from the mistakes of its predecessor, build upon those mistakes and deliver from that knowledge. The Buhari administration should appreciate this fact. It is the truth spoken to authority.
When Jonathan was there, he inherited and had to deal with many problems, just as the...
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Hacia fines de 2001, la Argentina vivió la mayor debacle económica, social y política de su historia. Tras la renuncia de De la Rúa, la corporación política, encabezada por Eduardo Duhalde, buscó neutralizar el descalabro institucional, pero no pudo superar la profunda crisis de poder que el neoliberalismo había dejado, por lo cual debió convocar a elecciones para reconstruir legitimidad. En este convulsionado escenario surgió el kirchnerismo,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I imagined a nightmare scenario where early one morning, my phone would buzz me awake and I would fumble for it in the dark. A staffer on the other end would inform me that there had been a horrible massacre at a Jewish site somewhere in Europe.
#2 The shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. It...
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David Lublin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina.
In The Paradox of Representation David Lublin offers an unprecedented analysis of a vast range of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation: Racial redistricting remains vital to the election of African Americans and Latinos but makes Congress less likely to adopt policies...
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La tesis sobre la que se desarrollan los argumentos desplegados a lo largo de este texto es que la expansión del campo cultural llevada a cabo por la revolución bolivariana para ampliar el número de beneficiarios de la acción del Estado petrolero −es decir, el movimiento que lucha contra los efectos de una modernización excluyente desde arriba, con sus propias formas y experimentos de modernización desde abajo− no se traduce en un verdadero...
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