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"So, what are you writing about?" I would be asked. "Err. It's just a piece about transnational democracy, adapting Zionism to globalization and this legal provision in the treaty of the European Union", I would blurt uncomfortably. The inquirers would either chuckle in confusion, stare blankly (should they have understood what I just said?) or run a million miles, out of fear of being cornered into a dull discussion. The truth is this essay IS all...
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James Q. Wilson is the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books and has served on numerous national commissions concerned with public policy.
A major work by one of America's eminent political scientists, Political Organizations has had a profound impact on how we view the influence of interest groups on policymaking. James Wilson wrote this book to counter...
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For more than four decades, polarized politics in America has been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and a sensationalist media energized by bringing public officials down. In this sorely needed book Lanny Davis, who has been in the belly of the beast as Special Counsel to the Clinton White House, explains--starting with historical scandals like Alexander Hamilton's extramarital...
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Die Studie der Coburger Hochschule/IAB arbeitet heraus, dass die Anzahl der Erwerbspersonen aus rein demographischen Gründen bis 2050 um ein Drittel vermindert sein wird. Sie nimmt deshalb zwei Faktoren in den Fokus, die diesem dramatischen Arbeitskräftemangel entgegenwirken können: Eine höhere Erwerbsbeteiligung und die Immigration aus EU und Drittstaaten. Insbesondere zum politisch heiß diskutierten Thema Zuwanderung kommen die Autoren zu folgendem...
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But the rich are rather good at getting the poor to eat each other instead. In this provocative novella-length essay, Mike Robbins looks at how the British electoral system, social media, bullying by business, and a growing gap between rich and poor have led to deep fissures in British society. These have been exploited by those with an agenda of their own. As a result, democracy is now fragile. To repair it, we must look hard at the way information...
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The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters of Power Trip Damian McBride details the aftermath of the book's publication and outlines his shocking predictions for the future of the Labour Party, politics and the economy with...
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In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a 'humanitarian intervention,' in Afghanistan, 'self-defense,' and in Iraq, it claimed the authority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Yet each of these wars was illegal according to established rules of international law. According to these rules, illegal wars fall within the category of 'supreme international crimes'. So how come the war crimes tribunals never manage to turn their sights on America...
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This is a hard-hitting response to false statements about our nation's values and ideals by rigid radical right-wing extremists. It unmasks their deceptions by using the actual words of the founding fathers-both brief quotations and longer passages. It pays tribute to the America you always knew was hidden behind smokescreens of rigid partisan ideological rhetoric and tells how to get it back. The spirits of Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,...
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Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited. In this new work, Yongshun Cai combines original fieldwork with secondary sources to examine how social protest has become a viable method of resistance in China and, more importantly, why some collective actions succeed while others fail. Cai looks at...
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Un libro para lderes, que gobiernan con autoridad, pasin y poder sobrenatural en el contexto hispano-latino de los Estados Unidos. Los lderes gubernamentales son lderes del siglo 21 que tienen la mentalidad del reino, corazones de guerrero y son amigos del Espritu Santo. Es un libro para plantadores de Iglesia radicales, que buscan expandir el reino por la fuerza. La Iglesia hispana necesita una visitacin poderosa del Espritu Santo para cambiar la...
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Liberal e hispánico no son términos que suelan ir asociados. Sin embargo, tanto en la América hispanohablante como en España el liberalismo ha sido, al menos desde 1812, un eje de pensamiento político y una asignatura pendiente que quizá haya llegado el momento de aprobar.
Doscientos años mas tarde de la firma de la Constitución español ¿dónde están hoy los liberales españoles? ¿Y los liberales peruanos, los argentinos o los mexicanos?...
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Der globale Kapitalismus schreitet zunehmend voran. Lediglich 147 Konzerne - so Schweizer Wissenschaftler - steuern und kontrollieren die gesamte Weltwirtschaft und damit auch unser Leben. Die wahre Macht liege demnach nicht mehr bei den Staatsorganen, sondern bei internationalen Großkonzernen.
Wie kam diese Entwicklung zustande und was können wir selbst für unser eigenes Leben und für die Gesellschaft dagegen unternehmen?
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The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement, have increased dramatically over recent years. In hindsight, it is the durability of the Mubarak regime, not its sudden loss of legitimacy that should be...
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Hacia fines de 2001, la Argentina vivió la mayor debacle económica, social y política de su historia. Tras la renuncia de De la Rúa, la corporación política, encabezada por Eduardo Duhalde, buscó neutralizar el descalabro institucional, pero no pudo superar la profunda crisis de poder que el neoliberalismo había dejado, por lo cual debió convocar a elecciones para reconstruir legitimidad. En este convulsionado escenario surgió el kirchnerismo,...
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Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job insecurity for millions of workers, debts as far as the eye can see, and a dangerous quest for global domination. Democracy itself has been undermined and the Constitution weakened. This regime must be overturned! And, as Charles Derber demonstrates in his...
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Hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide, Power Trip is the explosive memoir of one of Westminster's most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. Known by friend and foe as 'Mad Dog'...
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After WWII, the world entered a phase of extreme dynamics. The USA outpaced all other countries. More than 50 years later, it no longer has the radical esprit that brought about its hegemony. Still, America of the information revolution remains the world's only superpower. But as the necessity of change, expressed in a variety of systemic crises, accelerated, the USA fell into patterns of reactive politics similar to those that led to the downfall...
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La tesis sobre la que se desarrollan los argumentos desplegados a lo largo de este texto es que la expansión del campo cultural llevada a cabo por la revolución bolivariana para ampliar el número de beneficiarios de la acción del Estado petrolero −es decir, el movimiento que lucha contra los efectos de una modernización excluyente desde arriba, con sus propias formas y experimentos de modernización desde abajo− no se traduce en un verdadero...
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Do NOT read this material if you are an old liberal, a Democrat, an Obama supporter, or have HIGH Blood Pressure. I was raised as a staunch Democrat in the mid-West. I hated Ronald Regan. How Regan actually brought me into the Republican party. A forgotten story about Hillary & Beethoven. In defense of our mid-East friend, Israel. A Critique of Washington corruption. I'm a card carrying member of that "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", you know, Americans...
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