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“leslie mccall”

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  • The Undeserving Rich

    American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution

    by Leslie McCall ...
    It is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both incomplete survey data and economic conditions of the past and not present. In fact, Americans have desired less inequality for decades, and McCall's book explains why. Americans ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

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  • Control

    Exposing the Truth About Guns

    by Glenn Beck ...
    Series series The Control Series
    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, makes a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us.When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.It is the only ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Obamacare: Complete Law, Latest Statistics & Republican's Counterproposal

    The Affordable Care Act, Its Impact, and the Republican Alternative

    by White House, United States Congress ...
    This e-book contains the complete text of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The edition also includes the latest data on health coverage and health care expenses, as well as the Republicans' counter arguments and their proposed bill. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, is a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weak Courts, Strong Rights

    Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Enrique Desmond Arias ...
    This book examines security in three cities that suffer from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica. In each, democratic states contend with subnational armed groups that dominate territory and play important roles in politics even as they contribute to fear and insecurity. Through a nested three-city, six-neighborhood analysis of the role of criminal ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America

    by Jennifer Pribble ...
    Systems of social protection can provide crucial assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable groups in society, but not all systems are created equally. In Latin America, social policies have historically exhibited large gaps in coverage and high levels of inequality in benefit size. Since the late 1990s, countries in this region have begun to grapple with these challenges, enacting a series of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Fragmented Democracy

    Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics

    by Jamila Michener ...
    Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Welfare for the Wealthy

    Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States

    by Christopher G. Faricy ...
    How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relationship by evaluating how political party power results in changes to both public social spending and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • What Kind of America

    .....Do You Want to Leave Your Kids?

    by R. Eugene Spitzer ...
    This is an excellent book for people who are tired and fed up with what they see happening to their country. Whether its failing schools, a failing federal government, a failing economy, huge debt, and massive unemployment, youll want to read this book.Hollywood is a cesspool, likened to Soddom and Gomorrah, RAP music offends almost everyone, and is full of degrading lyrics; the whole alternative ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness

    by Susanne N. Beechey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book seeks to understand the politics of deservingness for future Social Security reforms through an interpretive policy analysis of the 2005 Social Security privatization debates. What does it mean for politics and policymaking that Social Security recipients are widely viewed as deserving of the benefits they receive? In the 2005 privatization debates, Congress framed Social Security in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

    by Pamela Brandwein ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
    American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights that provided expansive ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Annual Report on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises 2009

    Consumer empowerment

    by Collective ...
    The Guidelines are recommendations to international business for conduct in such areas as labour, environment, consumer protection and the fight against corruption. The recommendations are made by the adhering governments and, although not binding, governments are committed to promoting their observance. This Annual Report provides an account of the actions taken by the 41 adhering governments ... Read more

    $35.99 USD