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The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters of Power Trip Damian McBride details the aftermath of the book's publication and outlines his shocking predictions for the future of the Labour Party, politics and the economy with...
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Ken Kollman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
In Outside Lobbying, Ken Kollman explores why and when interest group leaders in Washington seek to mobilize the public in order to influence policy decisions in Congress. In the past, political scientists have argued that lobbying groups make outside appeals primarily because of their own internal dynamics--to recruit new members, for example. Kollman, however,...
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Christopher Howard is Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary.
Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher...
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Alpha Dogs is the story of the men from an enormously influential campaign business called Sawyer Miller who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard Nixon's to George W. Bush's. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with dreams of a career as a filmmaker; Scott Miller, the son of an Ohio shoe salesman, had a knack for copywriting. Unlikely partners, they became a political powerhouse, directing democratic revolutions...
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"Co-Winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration" Jacob S. Hacker is a Guest Scholar in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, a doctoral candidate in political science at Yale University, and a Robert M. Leylan Fellow in Social Sciences at Yale University.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated...
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Drawing on a wealth of articles written by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history. From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto and his eventual crowning as the city's clown prince, the...
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Stealing the Minds of America A Must for Truth-Seekers Who Vote There are people and organizations counting on you to not think for yourself. When this happens, they have effectively stolen you mind and vote. Do you really know the political party that you embrace? Janice Ponds has done extensive research regarding both political parties from the 1800's to the present; uncovering the foundational beliefs of both platforms and what they stand for today....
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Here are the facts:The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantánamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years-and dressed them up as tax cuts! Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to "Islamic...
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"Winner of the 2015 Legacy Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" William G. Howell is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. In 2001 he received both the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American politics, from the American Political Science Association, and the Center for Presidential Studies prize...
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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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"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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Woran erkennt man eine echte Pandemie? Wann sind Viren gefährlich? Warum eigentlich Masken? Was wissen wir über gentechnische Impfungen? Was geschieht mit unseren Gesundheitsdaten? Wem kann man noch trauen? Wo bleibt die Evidenz in der Corona-Krise? Wo ist die Debatte? Was passiert in Heimen und Kliniken? Werden Gesundheitsbehörden missbraucht? Was ist institutionelle Korruption? Wem nützt die aktuelle Pandemie? Sollen über unsere Gesundheit...
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Mafia im 21. Jahrhundert: Tomaten sind das neue Kokain Der größte Exportschlager Italiens ist seine Küche. Der Anteil der Mafia an diesem Geschäft: 25 Milliarden Euro jährlich. Sie kontrolliert nicht selten gesamte Lieferketten, vom Anbau bis zum Endprodukt. Und durch die Coronakrise hat sich ihr Einfluss noch vergrößert. Die Leidtragenden sind die Bauern und Händler – aber auch die Käufer italienischer Lebensmittel: wir. Oliver Meiler...
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"It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign--the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom...
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As the author of “The Conservative Mind” and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement's most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk's was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements...
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American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through classic examples of political rhetoric. Now in its seventh edition, its selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from our nation's founders to contemporary elected public officials, Supreme Court opinions, and representatives...
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It was the dinner that changed history: the night in February 2016 when Boris Johnson decided to vote 'leave' and a nation's future was sealed. Guests included the spirits of Prime Ministers past, including Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Tony Blair as well as fellow MP Michael Gove, the journalist Sarah Vine, Marina Wheeler and Evgeny Lebedev.
Fast forward to post-Brexit Britain. Johnson, no longer in power, roams the political wilderness....
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El Departamento de Derecho Público de la Facultad de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile pone este libro a disposición de toda persona interesada en los contenidos que serán objeto de discusión durante el proceso constituyente que se está desarrollando en nuestro país. En él algo más de cincuenta profesores y profesoras examinan la esencia de los conceptos fundamentales del constitucionalismo y de nuestra propia historia...
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The book is a compilation of writings over a four plus year period documenting events unfolding in the first Obama Administration, tracking the revolution of hope and change and the emergence of the Tea Party revolution of greed and blame. The book not only identifies the dysfunctional state of political affairs currently in the country but also offers conceptual remedies to help us get the country back on the correct path.
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