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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999710746Author Annie J WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Band of Investment Publishing Co.Publisher Band of Investment Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

November 2010 sees the first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, to be held as the culmination of the military regime's 'Road Map for Democracy' The conditions under which the elections are being held are far from favourable, although the laws and...

Since 1970 seventy-three political leaders within the major parties have been forcibly removed from their leadership positions. And at the heart of the turmoil is the media, with its 24-hour news cycle making political leadership evermore precarious...

With the world watching closely, Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011. After convening the parliament, elected in November 2010, the former military regime transferred power to a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393441697Author Ken KollmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 909g

Jimmy Carter was, according to Erwin Hargrove, the first modern Democratic president to be substantially ahead of the party coalition. Concerned with issues of the future - inflation, the need for tax reform, energy shortages - Carter anticipated many...

The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey was a "rolling cross-section": a daily tracking of the campaign designed explicitly to monitor...

This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they...

The federal government holds a vast domain of American land. Does it hold these acres in trust for future generations and for the planet itself? Or does it hold them as a resource for economic development and growth? Indeed, should it hold them at all?...

In 1887, the centennial year of the American Constitution, Woodrow Wilson wrote that "it is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one." The context for Wilson's comment was an essay calling for sound principles of...

Perfectly timed to anticipate the possible election of a new president in 1996, the second edition of James Pfiffner's The Strategic Presidency provides the most complete and authoritative volume on presidential transitions from JFK to Bill Clinton...

The fifth edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999677704Author Deborah CupplesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Delfinium, LLCPublisher Delfinium, LLCWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The invention of the United States Senate was the most complicated and confounding achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Although much has been written on various aspects of Senate history, this is the first book to examine and link the three...

Unlike texts that overwhelm with irrelevant details, Kollman gives students a simple framework, consistently applied: politics is about collective dilemmas and the institutions that solve them. How can 535 members of Congress get anything done? The...

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The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious...

The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

The judiciary in the United States has been subject in recent years to increasingly vocal, aggressive criticism by media members, activists, and public officials at the federal, state, and local level. This collection probes whether these attacks as well...

The fifth edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

The news media are often presumed to be a fourth estate, or fourth branch of government, serving as a check on the other three. In Uncertain Guardians, political scientist Bartholomew Sparrow argues that this is a mistaken notion. Instead, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393630930Author William T BiancoPage Count 768Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1656g

This timely book explores the development of the European Social Model and questions whether the relatively high level of social protection provided, both in terms of social welfare provision and in the creation of workers' rights and employment...

Despite achieving monumental reforms in the United States such as the eight-hour workday, a federal minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, organized labor's record on much of its agenda has been mixed. Tracy Roof's sweeping examination of...

Despite achieving monumental reforms in the United States such as the eight-hour workday, a federal minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, organized labor's record on much of its agenda has been mixed. Tracy Roof's sweeping examination of...

A comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behaviour, elections, politics, and policymaking, this book has set the standard for the course. It includes a wealth of data in tables, figures, boxes, and features photos and political...

Why do voters so often exhibit patterns of policy preference vastly different from what analysts and strategists predict? And why do these same voters consistently cast ballots that ensure the continuation of "divided government?" In The Two Majorities...

Scholars and practitioners of public management have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems, and capacity as key to running effective government programs. While acknowledging the usefulness of each of these...

The essays in this volume examine democracy's development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped-and continues to shape-the American political system. Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of...

State secrets, warrantless investigations and wiretaps, signing statements, executive privilege-the executive branch wields many tools for secrecy. Since the middle of the twentieth century, presidents have used myriad tactics to expand and maintain a...

The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998559049Author Stacey RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Sons of Joy, LLCPublisher Sons of Joy, LLCWeight(grams) 113g

Integrating lessons from history and social science in a conversational style, Newport, editor in chief of The Gallup Poll, the country's preeminent polling source, explains how polling works and why polls matter in this book for general readers and...

Over the past decade, a new white nationalist movement has gained strength in America, bringing with it the potential to disrupt already fragile race relations. Eschewing violence, this movement seeks to expand its influence mainly through argument and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692290897Author J D AdlerFormat PaperbackImprint Epco PressPublisher Epco PressWeight(grams) 195g

This book examines the political and religious context in which the Constitution and The Bill of Rights were adopted. Swomley reasons that those who wrote and adopted the Constitution and First Amendment intended a strict separation of church and state,...

In this volume, the author shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations undercuts US relations with its allies. It also jeopardises the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies in Europe, the Far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692793206Author N L BrissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint N L BrissonPublisher N L BrissonWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692734834Author Dennis HaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Dennis HaughPublisher Dennis HaughWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm