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by Juan Carlos Calleros-Alarcón
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary – a usually overlooked political actor – and its capacity to contribute to the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America during the 1990s. Calleros analyzes twelve countries in order to assess the independence, impartiality,...
This Republic
Illuminating Republican Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
A short and concise primer on the fundamental principles of the American Government, This Republic draws upon the writings of the American founders, and extensively the writings of John Adams, to thoroughly explain the nature of republics and republican governments.
Dependent on D.C.
The Rise of Federal Control over the Lives of Ordinary Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Dependent on D.C. raises serious concerns about the future of liberty in America and proves beyond a doubt that the growth of dependence on government in the past seventy years has not been accidental, that its creation has been bipartisan, and that it is accelerating. Twight shows how growing federal...
by Richard S. Kirkendall, Roger Daniels, Athan G. Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
President Harry Truman identified himself repeatedly as a champion of civil liberties in the American system of government. Although the pursuit of peace topped his agenda, Communist containment and civil liberties were, in his mind, closely linked. The American Constitution's Bill of Rights was a...
The Deadlocked Election of 1800
Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
It was one of the most critical elections of American history, overshadowed only by the one that plunged the country into civil war. The deadlocked election of 1800 has earned considerable attention and debate from historians; now James Roger Sharp reveals that modern observers didn't necessarily...
Buck Wild
How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2006
"If you fell into a coma in November of 1994 and woke up yesterday, a lot of things might surprise you. But nothing would baffle you more than what has happened to the Republican Party. Stephen Slivinski can explain. Buck Wild tells a painful story, but it's honest and true and well worth reading."
-TUCKER...
Beyond the Broker State
Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln both considered small business the backbone of American democracy and free enterprise. In Beyond the Broker State, Jonathan Bean considers the impact of this ideology on American politics from the Great Depression to the creation of the Small Business Administration...
Fragmented Citizens
The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be
The landmark Supreme Court decision in June 2015 legalizing the right to same-sex marriage marked a major victory in gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Once...
by Jenny Manson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future. They question the ill-conceived assumptions behind the endless programmes of reform imposed by successive governments, often on the basis of advice from people with...
Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes
Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural theories. There are two main...
Change They Can't Believe In
The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can’t Believe In offers an alternative argument—that the Tea Party is driven by the...
The Wolves of Alaska
A Fact-based Saga
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that Americas Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
This unique paper was produced by the Center for the Study of Intelligence. CSI was founded in 1974 in response to Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger's desire to create within CIA an organization that could "think through the functions of intelligence and bring the best intellects...