Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Accountable
Making America as Good as Its Promise
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Accountable provides real-life examples of how crucial issues -- including health care, education, the economy, unequal justice, and the environment -- manifest themselves in our communities. The book demonstrates the urgent need to hold politicians and ourselves responsible, because the stakes have...
Governing Modern Societies
Towards Participatory Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Is the ‘golden age’ of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state?
Within this book, Heinelt seeks to address the democratic deficit in political systems linked to limited Citizen Participation reflecting on the notion of democracy and...
by Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This study proposes and assesses an alternative explanation of the changes in the relationship between presidential and House of Representatives election results during the last century. Jeffrey M. Stonecash argues that the separation of presidential and House election results that occurred from the...
by Vincent Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book describes a system to change the current state of taxation without representation due to no person every having every political opinion represented to a state of taxation with representation where people can use technology to self represent in the case represantatives do not want to vote the way they want.
NATO and Terrorism
Organizational Expansion and Mission Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
NATO and Terrorism posits that the post 9/11 war on terrorism has had a profound effect on NATO's post Cold War structure and military missions. NATO and Terrorism focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations. The first was the expansion from sixteen...
The Original Compromise
What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay--known collectively as the Federalist Papers--comprise the lens through which we typically view the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution. But we are wrong to do so, writes David Brian Robertson, if we really want to know what the Founders were...
True Tales from the Campaign Trail
Stories Only Political Consultants Can Tell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
True Tales from the Campaign Trail finds Democratic and Republican political consultants putting aside their differences to offer entertaining and honest insights into the art of the political campaign. First-hand accounts from across the spectrum detail the trials and tribulations of primaries for...
The Rise of Israel
A History of a Revolutionary State
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).
Using a variety of comparative methodologies;...
Election Watchdogs
Transparency, Accountability and Integrity
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...
The Next American Century
How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
The rise of other global powers is most often posed as a sorry tale, full of threats to America's primacy, prosperity, and way of life. The potential loss of our #1 status implies a blow to our safety, economy, and prestige.
But this is a rare moment in history: none of the world's big powers...
by Robert Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
America: Hope for Change explores the causes and remedies to the seven most difficult issues confronting (and confounding) our culture and country. Tackling complex issues, former Maryland Governor, US Congressman, Bob Ehrlich presents an urgent call to action on behalf of a conservative, common sense political force that will determine the quality of life for generations to come.
by Barbara Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. The first chapter is a utopian fragment about a future country, Aleatoria, where everything, including political power, jobs and money, is distributed by lottery. The rest of the book is devoted to considering the idea of the lottery...
The Rehnquist Choice
The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
The Citizen Lobbyist
A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A handbook for anyone who wants to learn about how to be active in local, state, and federal government, The Citizen Lobbyist shows how to have a voice in creating public policy. More citizen involvement is needed in our government processes to ensure the voices of the people are heard over the money...