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by Prof. Ravi Meena
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
What began with the trashing and pulping of a book on gods and renewed litigation against an Indologist has now taken a more distinct shape in terms of the approach to education itself, most of which seems to project an obscurantist and insular India even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is busy forging...
Insecure Majorities
Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation...
British Government Policy and Decolonisation, 1945-63
Scrutinising the Official Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book is an in-depth study of the importnace of the Empire-Commonwealth in the two decades after WWII for Britain's self-image as a great power. By studying a wide range of debates on general and specific imperial problems, the book highlights the "official mind" of decolonization - and of late imperialism.
Presidents? Secrets
The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power
Ever since the nation’s most important secret meeting—the Constitutional Convention—presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations....
Captured
The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee “spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety of issues” in national politics (The New Yorker)
As a U.S. senator and former federal prosecutor, Sheldon Whitehouse has had a front-row seat for the...
by Chris Buskirk
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The success of the Trump presidency will be judged in large part on his ability to reduce the size and scope of the deep state. The unelected, unaccountable permanent bureaucratic leviathan that winds itself around the body and squeezes its life out must be dismantled if Trump’s legacy is to be...
Quarterly Essay 6 Beyond Belief
What Future for Labor?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2002, John Button looks at what has gone wrong with the Labor Party. What has happened to the faith of the True Believers and why is the ALP so bad at recruiting new members? He offers a tough-minded analysis of what went wrong in the last election and asks why the...
Resilient America
Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race—all...
Toward an Ethic of Citizenship
Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2000
The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of...
Labour And The Gulag
Russia and the Seduction of the British Left
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era in Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain.
In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands...
The Poison Squad
One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**A New York Times Notable Book
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**
By the end...
Federalism
Political Identity and Tragic Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse as well as the focus of immense controversy resulting from the lack of a single coherent definition. Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin expose the ambiguities of modern federalism, offering a powerful but generous treatise...
Lion of the Senate
When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
An insider’s look at the two years when Senator Ted Kennedy held at bay both Newt Gingrich and his Republican majority: “For those who love politics and care about policy—and those looking for an account of how Washington used to work, Lion of the Senate is pure catnip” (USA TODAY).
The...
Regime Change You Can Believe In
The Minimalist Joy of Opting Out
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Learn how to live on as little as possible and accept it as a way of life--then celebrate it. The inevitable economic collapse could be a year away or it could be ten years away, but if you're already living frugally, what difference does it make? Opt out as a way of life and enjoy your new-found...