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The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of American government, focusing on the fatal flaws of America's core political arrangements. Institutionalized pluralism, the structural dispersal of power, generates government too weak to...

Social movements and civic organizations often face profound strategy dilemmas that can hamper their effectiveness and prevent them from contributing to transformative change and peace. In Zimbabwe two particular dilemmas have fed into and fueled...

This book takes the reader into a thorny world of political dysfunction. The contributions to State of Corruption, State of Chaos speak to some of the most potent security threats facing us in the twenty-first century, and examine the degree to which our...

International Negotiations combines three main elements: an overview of theoretical perspectives on the process of international negotiations; a set of case studies; and a new approach toward the issue of how domestic politics affect the process of isuch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403961464Author Charlotte TwightFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 630g

Presidential Lessons in Leadership crystallizes the methods of leadership from six of America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming a more...

In The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court: Perspectives on the Nondelegation Doctrine, leading scholars consider a revival of the Constitution's nondelegation doctrine-the separation-of-powers principle that bars Congress from transferring its...

How do transformative changes in public policy take place? Why do some issues rise to the top of the political agenda, while others are completely ignored? What makes some major policy initiatives succeed-at times, even when the odds are decidedly...

In the United States you can elect any president you want, but a small group of people you’ve never heard of still run everything — year after year, administration after administration. That’s not democracy. It’s oligarchy, and Mark Moyar explains...

Mercer University's Thomas and Ramona McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles exists to encourage the study of the texts and ideas that have been instrumental in shaping the regime of the United States of America. This short volume includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055093Author Robert C. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

The Labour Party is New Zealand's oldest political party. On 7 July 2016 it celebrates a hundred years of commitment to democracy, social justice and economic development-a commitment that has often made for precarious balancing acts. First in government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984790333Author Kevin ConnollyFormat PaperbackImprint Deviant Innovations LLCPublisher Deviant Innovations LLCWeight(grams) 866g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981620657Author Department of DefenseFormat PaperbackImprint Red Bike PublishingPublisher Red Bike PublishingWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981620626Author Department of DefenseFormat PaperbackImprint Red Bike PublishingPublisher Red Bike PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Who steals? An extraordinary range of folk- from low-life hoods who sign on as Medicare or Medicaid providers equipped with nothing more than beepers and mailboxes, to drug trafficking organizations, organized crime syndicates, and even major hospital...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055086Author Robert C. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

Racism has permeated the workings of the U.S. Constitution since ratification. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, supporters of slavery ensured it was protected by rule of law. The federal government upheld slavery until it was abolished by the Civil...

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...

Here, for the first time, are both the day-to-day operations and the long-term objectives of key Washington organizations. Here are the names of hundreds of people who, though largely unknown to the public, take in and spend millions of dollars in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088142875Author P MaguinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 136g

A series of laws passed in the 1970s promised the nation unprecedented transparency in government, a veritable ""sunshine era."" Though citizens enjoyed a new arsenal of secrecy-busting tools, officials developed a handy set of...

An account of the creation of the CIA that reveals how the idea of ""centralized intelligence"" developed within the government and debunks the myth that former OSS chief William J. Donovan was the prime mover behind the agency's...

Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse: a building block of modern governance, but also the focus of immense controversy. As esteemed scholars Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin show, much of this controversy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990925026Author Glenn W MolletteFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Liberty Torch PressPublisher Liberty Torch PressWeight(grams) 458g

Hear commentary by Paul Light on why young, talented workers are steering clear of jobs in the federal government (from National Public Radio). The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander...

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, only three Democrats have captured the White House-all of them natives of southern states. The ascendancy and reelection of Bill Clinton to the presidency is a prime example of this phenomenon, and...

What ever happened with that liberal intellectual "boom" of the 1980s and 1990s? In The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual , Eric Lott- author of the prizewinning Love and Theft - shows that the charter members of the "new left" are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071813065Author Kenneth J DautrichImprint CQ PressPublisher CQ PressWeight(grams) 907g

It's amateur hour at the White House. So says New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein in his new political expose The Amateur. Tapping into the public's growing sentiment that President Obama is in over his head, The Amateur argues that Obama's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231038102Author Andrew W. CordierFormat HardbackPage Count 659Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

What It Means to Serve the Public In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, renowned as one of our most articulate and respected politicians, defines the duty, the honor and the privilege of public life in the face of Americans'...

Until now there have been few attempts to examine the different models of federalism appropriate in Asia, let alone to trace the extent to which these different perspectives are compatible, converging, or mutually influencing each other. This book...

What's the Problem with Socialism? Let's start with...everything. So says bestselling author and professor of economics Thomas J. DiLorenzo, who sets the record straight in this concise and lively primer on an economic theory that's gaining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621574026Author Dinesh D'SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Regnery Publishing IncPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 297g

"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." -RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh...

This thoughtful book grapples with the contentious issue of fetal protection policy in the workplace, contrasting the right of the mother to control her life against the right of the fetus to occupy a risk-free environment. By describing the history of...

The first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Reagan revolution on African-American political life, this book explores the ways in which conservative elites mobilized the American public around issues of race as ideology, discourse, strategy, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231045063Author Elizabeth Peterkin McCaugheyFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press