Political Science - General

This book is over 170 pages with graphs and charts to help illustrate the author's data-driven analysis of the latest hot topic issues in American politics, economics, and culture. No other author tells the story of the increasing squeeze over half of Americans feel...

A collection of essays on fiscally conservative thoughts. Includes The 2020 Initiative - a nonpartisan solution to the federal government's growing debt problem ($20 trillion and rising, with no end in sight).Author: Tim BeckISBN-10: 0999443208ISBN-13: 9780999443200Publisher: Foundation to Promote Personal ResponsibilityLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2018Pages: 202Format:...

The results are [not] in. In this decisive summary, learn the full story of liberalism's positive impact on the world. The findings are absolute and incontrovertible. Experts have spent years looking for liberalism's positive effects - and they are at a loss for words....

As America struggles to recover from the pandemic we are being attacked bydoestic terrorists and find ourselves on the edge between the Land of Dreams and Helter Skelter.Author: Henry Park,Robert MillerISBN-10: 099758873XISBN-13: 9780997588736Publisher: Cuatro Corp.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2020Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x...

This work is a provocative look at how America's most sacred institutions: our churches and our Government, are actually eroding our freedoms. Regardless what "side of the aisle" you come from, you will find a thought provoking discussion about the questions we should be...

A fully illustrated Adventure Game-Book based on many different conspiracy theories. Some of the theories may hit close to home, others will be extremely outlandish. Will you go down as one of the greatest leaders that America has ever seen? Or will you be...

Our country was built on a strong foundation imagined from men of the late Eighteenth Century. Many of their lofty ideals and goals are just as needed today but have been perverted by over two hundred years of self interested wealthy men and corporations....

Anger at Washington is at an all-time high. Occupy Wall Street on the left, the Tea Partiers on the right, the supporters of Get Money Out of Politics, and others from every point on the spectrum agree: our government is corrupt, our politicians are...

Enough!, written by Publius MMX, Recovering Federalist, is a continuation of the Federalist No. 86 series, which picks up where the original Federalist Papers left off 220 years ago, following ratification of the United States Constitution. While making reference to the original Federalist /...

Michael Stafford's call-to-action for a new politics based on solidarity, civic virtue, and the common good. With a fresh take on issues like immigration reform, environmental stewardship, income inequality, and our public discourse, Stafford reminds us that the solutions to America's problems can only...

This book is primarily about good people clashing over the advantages and disadvantages of multinationalism verses mainstream America based on the Melting Pot. With Russia stealthily urging American minority groups to remain separate and maximize differences with mainstream America, resolving the clash becomes important...

Tyrants is a book exploring how we have managed to fall so far away from the foundation which has made our country Great among the nations of the world. It looks at the decades of spiritual and moral decay, which has been passed down...

This book is a collection of thoughts from individuals, Nicholas Buford, Henry Childs, Mack Curry III, Nakeisha Curry, Ashante Everett, Andy Rodriquez, and Ted Sadler, who are involved in some way, in the political process. The thoughts are from college students, educators, a community...

"I have never read a book like this on civic engagement. If there exists a better book to light this path to electing good public officials, let me know."- Ralph NaderOur global society is facing unprecedented change, termed "The Great Reset" and "The New...

Relying on a broad range of theoretical writings on the problem of ideology the author has formulated their own interpretations of the formation of early Tokugawa ideology. Instead of synthesizing these theoretical approaches, he has worked them into analytical essays that constitute this book....

Think that people's political opinions are the result of carefully reasoned thought? Think that everyone would agree with you if you could just make them see the light? Think again! Big government vs small government, free market vs a fair market, individualism vs group...

Approval voting is the system in which you are allowed to vote for more than one. It proves to be more fair than the common system. It is a costless reform, solving the "voter's dilemma" and accurately representing the wishes of the voting population....

What circumstances lead writers in a poor, multi-ethnic and largely illiterate country to produce a literature that both expresses and affects opposition to the regime? Who are these writers? This study examines these and other questions about the literature of resistance in Guatemala, from...

Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China began with two symposia held in 1977 and 1978. The first, a workshop on "The Pursuit of Interest in China," was held in August 1977 at the University of Michigan, and was organized by Michel Oksenberg and Richard...

Events in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans have proved that failed and defeated states threaten the national security interests of the United States and the stability of entire regions. But success in addressing these threats clearly depends on more than military might; the post-conflict...

This distinctive book presents valuable new research on the political and economic elites that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of state socialism. Integrating theoretically informed analysis with fresh empirical data, the contributors significantly enhance our understanding of the evolution...

Ultimately the book aims to expand the parameters of what has typically been a US-centric discussion of faith-based interventions as it explores the concepts of faith, charity, security, and governance within a global perspective.Author: Erica Caple JamesISBN-10: 0826360335ISBN-13: 9780826360335Publisher: Unm PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2019Pages: 272Format:...

The religion question-the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution-profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared...

In March 1987, the Reverend Jerry Falwell and the national news media found themselves in rare agreement: Jim Bakker, the charismatic, cash-hungry televangelist, was an accomplished sinner but a rather unconvincing penitent. The story had just broken that Bakker had fornicated with Jessica Hahn,...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of thinking about security in Brazil. Lima develops a new framework for considering intellectual history in Brazil and applies it to the development of knowledge on security.Author: Laura LimaISBN-10: 0815377851ISBN-13: 9780815377856Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2017Pages: 196Format:...

State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and...

This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russia's stalled democratisation is related to the incomplete liberalisation of the economy. Based on extensive original comparative study of Russia's regions, the book explores the precise channels of interaction that create the mutuality of...

The precise legal nature of the relationship between the United States and the people of Puerto Rico was not explicitly determined in 1898 when the Treaty of Paris transferred sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States. Since then, many court cases,...

This book, devoted to acquainting reader with the basics of American free speech doctrine, presents a description of the radical attack on modern free speech doctrine. It discusses whether banning this speech would be a remedy for the harms hate speech and pornography are...

This is an examination of one of the many humanitarian movements that have sought to influence the public to improve conditions regarded as contrary to Christian and democratic doctrines. It is an important study because of its origin, its spectacular role on the congressional...

East has constructed a well-written study of the model of the Childs system as well as of its inventor. He uses a new approach involving a tough-minded empirical testing of municipal reform doctrine -- which to a considerable extent is a doctrine developed by...

Moes defends a subsidization of industry and advocates a bolder approach than that now in vogue. The application of the theoretical approach of this book is worldwide, and even though the setting of this study is America, the suggested advances in this field should...

The authors systematically analyze runoff elections by assembling a data set that includes primary and general election returns for those states that regularly use runoffs for selecting state legislative, executive, and congressional officials. They also draw upon data for many municipal offices nationwide and...

For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in U.S. environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. By considering how the Environmental...

This book demonstrates both the limits and unique role of non statutory controls in a world that demands a flexible administrative response that might be overly constrained by rigid statutes. It also explains that nature and impact of congressional involvement through non statutory controls.Originally...

Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the...

effectiveness and creativity in different contexts. In this issue this will be presented in full detail in the articles which refer to different aspects of the Israeli educational context. This special issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education concentrates on the intellectual impotence, moral...

This collection of essays draws together work done during a period of more than fifteen years. In the course of these years much has changed, including much about politics. Patterns of political activity have been trans- formed. Ways in which we had been accustomed...

Preface 1. Regarding Nature: A Conceptual Introduction 2. Nature as Privately Owned: Capitalism 3. Nature as Owned by Everyone: Socialism 4. Nature as Resource: Industrialism 5. The Ideology of Control 6. Nature as Matter: Science 7. Reactive versus Ecological Environmentalism 8. The Critique of...

Mr. McClellan seeks "to establish the particular function which smuggling-and especially that in connection with the West Indies trade"-performed in relation to the political and economic elements of the Revolution. The first two chapters provide an overAuthor: William S. McClellanISBN-10: 0788406396ISBN-13: 9780788406393Publisher: Heritage BooksLanguage:...

Shows readers how ethics can constrain improper behavior. To demonstrate the relationship of ethics to good government, this book presents several case studies on themes of public interest, natural law, and rule of law. Its chapters discuss concepts that help to define responsible behavior...

This book critically introduces the main contemporary debates on globalization and demonstrates how conventional versions or narratives of globalization have served to shape policy responses at both state and corporate levels.Author: Ronen P. Palan,Angus CameronISBN-10: 0761972110ISBN-13: 9780761972112Publisher: Sage Publications UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book provides a penetrative study of major conflicts resulting from theoretical analysis of such phenomena as post-Soviet new diasporas and forced migration demonstrated by the case of ethnic Russians, ethnic violence illustrated by the Osh conflict in Central Asia, the anatomy of ethnic...

This broad-ranging and clearly structured book critically overviews the many themes of social constructionism and its relevance to contemporary social and political issues. It brings together leading international contributors from across the social sciences, drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, cultural, gender...

This project explores the manner in which one form of political legitimacy came to overtake another, the enfranchisement of the Volk at the expense of monarchy during World War I Germany.Author: Jeffrey R. SmithISBN-10: 076183642XISBN-13: 9780761836421Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2006Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The Kurdish Political Struggles in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey fills the gap within scholarship of the Kurdish political conflict.Author: A. ManafyISBN-10: 0761830030ISBN-13: 9780761830030Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2005Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.56dReview Citation(s): Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1897

In From Revolution to Reform, He Li examines political and economic transformation in China and Mexico, from the Mexican and Chinese revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century, to economic reforms and political liberalization in recent decades.Author: He LiISBN-10: 0761827587ISBN-13: 9780761827580Publisher: University Press...

The editors of Health Communication in Africa have assembled an impressive list of scholars and practitioners to discuss some of the public health efforts and disease prevention strategies, conspicuously absent in health communication literature. A variety of subjects are addressed, including: existing and innovative...

'A tour of gentleman's clubs from their rowdy beginnings to their stately present' The Times'This book vividly captures clubland's brief history in all its transient (and occasionally squalid) glory' Daily Mail'Stephen Hoare's genial history of this Clubland-at-home is a fascinating story told with wit...

'The great merit of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood is that it seeks to encourage clear thinking about the national condition.' Allan Massie, TLSAuthor: Neil DavidsonISBN-10: 0745316085ISBN-13: 9780745316086Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2000Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.47h x 5.44w x 0.73d