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The Age of Austerity

How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

by Thomas Byrne Edsall
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.   In a matter...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a...
Cover of Conventional Wisdom, Parties, and Broken Barriers in the 2016 Election
by Mark D. Brewer, Richard Powell, Chad Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...
Cover of Summary of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power - RACHEL MADDOW
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Rachel Maddow in her book “Drift, The Unmooring of American Military Power”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case...
Cover of The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
by Paul B. Skousen, Dan Clark, Izzard Ink Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016

How often have people claimed that a certain thing was "in the Constitution" and you've wanted to pull out a copy to show them what this incredible document really says? This is the book you want to keep with you at all times: the full text of the Declaration of Independence and the...
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The People Themselves

Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

by Larry D. Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004

In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular...
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Ukraine’s Euromaidan

Analyses of a Civil Revolution

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

The essays in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. Topics covered include the motivations and expectations of protesters,...
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by Barry M. Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States, and helped lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980. It covers topics such as education, labor unions and...
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by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Over the course of a generation, patriotism in America has been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left. But the principles and values of true patriotism – country above self, contribution above consumption, stewardship over exploitation, freedom with responsibility, purpose through sacrifice...
Cover of Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly, and the Future of Liberty
by Dan Hind
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012

The organization of prestige found in the political class, in the media, and in academia is now indefensible. The bankruptcy of the Western economies is mirrored by an intellectual bankruptcy that those who currently hold power cannot adequately acknowledge. The triumph of the market faith was so...
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Six speeches of the New Deal

There is another way to leave the crisis

by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lídia Santos, Joan R. Riera
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

This book contains six speeches and three letters containing, in simple language that FDR used to address citizenship, the main actions of its program and policy justification but above all moral. One way frivolous and cavalier, hegemonic neoliberal thinking has eluded the history of capitalism without...
Cover of The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy
by Will Moreland
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid...
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Election Watchdogs

Transparency, Accountability and Integrity

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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

Recent decades have seen growing concern regarding problems of electoral integrity. The most overt malpractices used by rulers include imprisoning dissidents, harassing adversaries, coercing voters, vote-rigging counts, and even blatant disregard for the popular vote. Elsewhere minor irregularities...
Cover of America Back on Track
by Edward M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007

From one of America's most respected progressive voices comes an inspiring vision of reform and renewal In a Senate career spanning more than four decades, Edward M. Kennedy has become one of the most authoritative voices in American politics. His first major book in more than twenty years,...
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