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  • Rejecting Compromise

    Legislators' Fear of Primary Voters

    Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and poverty usually require compromise. Yet national, state, and local legislators often reject compromise proposals that would move policy in their preferred direction. Why do legislators reject such agreements? This engaging and relevant investigation into how politicians think reveals that legislators refuse ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Representing the Advantaged

    How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

    Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and that if all citizens participated equally we would achieve political equality. Daniel M. Butler shows that this common view is incorrect. He uses ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • You Can't Spell America Without Me

    The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody)

    Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally"I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and, what do you call them, paragraphs. My previous books were great and sold extremely, unbelievably well--even ... Read more

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  • Shadow Government

    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

    Series series TomDispatch Books
    "A book about secrets and surveillance . . . [from] one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing" (Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark).In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside ... Read more

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  • Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry

    This prize-winning, foundational book — now in its new ebook edition featuring a 2015 Foreword by Neil Smelser — focuses on the structural and ideological roots of intelligence failures (both informational and analytical) found in government, industry, and other institutions. It provides groundbreaking theory and structure to the analysis of decision-making processes and their breakdowns, as well ... Read more

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  • The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

    by Ian Beesley ...
    Series series Government Official History Series
    This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries, the most senior civil servants in UK government, from the post-war period up to 2002.In December 1916 Maurice Hankey sat at the Cabinet table to take the first official record of Cabinet decisions. Prior to this there had been no formal Cabinet agenda and no record of Cabinet decisions. Using authoritative government papers, some of ... Read more

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  • This Is Not America

    by Alan Friedman ...
    What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream?Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump.In this searing ... Read more

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  • The European Federalist Papers

    Robert A. Levine – former high official of the United States Federal Government – wrote in the New York Times of 9 January 1999 an article entitled: "What the EU Needs Is a Copy of 'The Federalist Papers'." Levine makes this remark at the start of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). He explains that in the quest for full economic integration, Europe could learn some useful lessons from the ... Read more

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  • Australian Senate Voting System Alternative

    by Skye Blue ...
    In the Australian Federal election of 2013, some disturbing results occurred in the Senate with candidates who attracted only very small support, often less than 1% of the vote, winning Senate seats.This short work looks at an alternative Senate voting system that is simple, direct and easy to understand - and above all, completely fair!Skye Blue is a leading thinker on politics and political ... Read more

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  • The Case Against the Global Economy

    And for a Turn Towards Localization

    Edited by Jerry Mander ...
    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, ... Read more

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  • Secular State and Religious Society

    Two Forces in Play in Turkey

    Edited by B. Turam ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within the Turkish state. ... Read more

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