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These days, it seems as if not a day goes by without some breaking news and frequently hilarious social media scandal. Perhaps the most famous example of social media disaster in politics occurred ……続きを見る

The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive an……続きを見る

The Court’s decisions are interpreted and disseminated via the media. During this process, the media paints an image of the Court and its business. Like any artist, the media has license regarding w……続きを見る

Europeanization of Judicial Review argues that the higher complexity of the political framework in which laws are made today leads to less well-designed laws and loop-holes, allowing politicians to ……続きを見る

Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation. In ……続きを見る

Example in this ebook   In the following chapters I have endeavoured to indicate the essential aspects of colonization in modern Argentina: the conquest of the soil by man, the exploitation o……続きを見る

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, tech……続きを見る

Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limitsーif anyーshould the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? S……続きを見る

In the 1950s, public relations practitioners tried to garner respectability for their fledgling profession, and one international figure helped in that endeavor. President Dwight D. Eisenhower embra……続きを見る

**New York Times bestseller Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how theyーand Americaーhave changed in the last two decades.** J……続きを見る

Outlines the events that led to the decision that the author could no longer participate in a policy that appeared to be at odds with the intentions of Parliament. This book includes an analysis of ……続きを見る

The standing committees of the House of Commons and Senate make it possible for practically any person or group to access the policy-making process and become a lobbyist. This handy and complete gui……続きを見る

From one of our leading social thinkers, a compelling case for the elimination of nuclear weapons. During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, "I can go into my office and pick up the……続きを見る

As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pens……続きを見る

Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word 'democracy' means 'rule by the people', not rule by a simple majority. ……続きを見る

Mastering the U.S. Legal System: A Beginner’s Guide provides an introduction to the U.S. legal system through easy to understand text accompanied by explanatory cases and other materials. Topics inc……続きを見る

In this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict. At a time when American society is roiled by deep divisions over immigration, guns, the……続きを見る

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR’s relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing popu……続きを見る

How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences? Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court combines new theore……続きを見る

A compelling look at how a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressed Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Be……続きを見る

Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show gre……続きを見る

How the early presidents shaped America's highest office From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to Geor……続きを見る

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectivene……続きを見る

On 4 Nov 2015, Justin Trudeau was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada. His agenda does not seem to vary from that of his father Pierre Trudeau, another self admitted Communist sympathizer. Pierre w……続きを見る

Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he……続きを見る

For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor*,* this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason*,* one of our most incisive public thinkers, an……続きを見る

To most observersーincluding many conservativesーthe so-called Republican Revolution of 1994 was anything but revolutionary, and the Contract with America that propelled the GOP into power was just ……続きを見る

Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells ……続きを見る

In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexp……続きを見る

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian*,* comes a riveting, magisteria……続きを見る