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Rescuing a Broken America
Why America is Deeply Divided and How to Heal it Constitutionally
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A plan for restoring and protecting freedom, based on the United States Constitution.
There has been a deliberate effort over the past one hundred years to change the worldview of Americans from a liberty and constitutionally focused world view, based on the writings of Englishman John Locke, to...
by Jordan Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In a lot of ways, the past four years have been wasted by the B.C. government. In mid 2009, the B.C. Liberals, led by Premier Gordon Campbell and Finance Minister Colin Hansen, plunged into the HST quicksand and never emerged. The more they struggled, the deeper they sank, until the electorate spoke...
A Government by the People
Direct Democracy in America, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Between 1898 and 1918, many American states introduced the initiative, referendum, and recall--known collectively as direct democracy. Most interpreters have seen the motives for these reform measures as purely political, but Thomas Goebel demonstrates that the call for direct democracy was deeply...
The Case for Gridlock
Democracy, Organized Power, and the Legal Foundations of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The Case for Gridlock explains how Progressive ideas about government have led to severe representational problems in the American political system. Having rejected the Framers' institutional arrangement as sluggish and frustrating, Progressives have, for over a century, worked to circumvent the Madisonian...
Arresting Citizenship
The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The numbers are staggering: One-third of America’s adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before has the American government maintained so vast...
by Philip K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.
In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Author: Vladimir Lenin, new introduction by Rupert MatthewsAs Lenin's life drew to a close he was painfully aware that the Communist Revolution in Russia for which he had worked his entire life was still not complete.These letters, and those that follow, make up the last of Lenin's works...
At the End of the Shift
Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1996
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual...
Purchase for Profit
Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
Who Governs?
Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
America’s model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman and Jacobs combine existing research with novel...
The Challenges to Democracy
Consensus and Extremism in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative...
by Karl Boyd Brooks, Mark W. T. Harvey, Paul Milazzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Decades before the environmental concerns of the 1960s and long before today’s quest for sustainability, Harry S. Truman’s presidency decisively changed the scope and pace of federal government interaction with the natural world. Determined to extend the prosperity promised by Roosevelt’s New...
The Evolving Physiology of Government
Canadian Public Administration in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public...