Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Big Medicine:
The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Elaina George, MD, is an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialist practicing in Atlanta, Georgia. "All I ever wanted to do was be a doctor. Taking the time to sit with a patient, get to know what makes them who they are in order to help them is the foundation of good medicine." Big Insurance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it's high time we ask: just exactly how corrupt is Britain?*BR**BR*David...
Billionaires
Reflections on the Upper Crust
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know.
With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires...
Next Generation Democracy
What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The problems of the 21st century are of unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care: all of these are political issues that could be managed with ease on a much smaller scale. But with an enormous global population, that kind of change is...
Financial Citizenship
Experts, Publics, and the Politics of Central Banking
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim...
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers
The Economic Engine of Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers presents a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change. Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López take up three interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate policies that impose net costs on society? Why...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Despite a decade of political technology's celebrated triumphs—such as online fundraising of the presidential campaigns of McCain in 2000, Dean in 2003, and Obama in 2008; or the web-enabled, socially networked campaign of Obama 2008—the field of e-politics is still at an unsolidified stage. Margin...
Congress Online
Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and their Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
While more than a million e-mails clog the inboxes of Congress each day, some legislators can't even find their own websites without the help of their staffers. In fact, laptops aren't even allowed on the floor of the House or Senate.
But, as Dennis W. Johnson demonstrates in Congress Online,...
by Professor Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse, Michael W. Wagner, William H. Flanigan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The 2016 elections took place under intense political polarization and uncertain economic conditions, to widely unexpected results. How did Trump pull off his victory?
Political Behavior of the American Electorate, Fourteenth Edition, attempts to answer this question by interpreting data from...
The Second Arab Awakening
And the Battle for Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when—if the dream is realized—a...
If You Can Keep It
Why We Nearly Lost It & How We Get It Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
In If You Can Keep It, Robin Koerner, founder and publisher of WatchingAmerica.com and the original Blue Republican, explains why 'We the People' have done such a poor job at keeping our Republic. He presents an utterly original account of American politics that cuts through the prevailing political...
The American Offensive
Dispatches from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Philosopher, educator and social commentator Jack Kerwick applies his keen insight to controversial topics including immigration, academia, religion, race and politics. Love him or hate him, you'll be captivated by his deep thoughts and pointed analysis.
Hopelessly Divided
The New Crisis in American Politics and What it Means for 2012 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Just in time for the 2012 election, Douglas E. Schoen, one of America’s preeminent political pundits, analyzes the growing chasm between the political class—politicians, lobbyists, fundraisers, consultants—and the American Mainstream, frustrated with government’s inability to address the major...
Conventional Wisdom and American Elections
Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Many students develop misinformed opinions about the American electoral process. Conventional Wisdom and American Elections: Exploding Myths and Misconceptions debunks some of the more common misunderstandings that have arisen about the electoral process in the past few decades. This book engages...