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Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a country where only two parties have a true chance of winning,...
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Journalist Rich Miniter uses his unparalleled access to sources and stories throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. He paints a devastating portrait of how close the U.S. military was to killing bin Laden--on multiple occasions--and how, each time, Clinton dropped the ball and allowed bin Laden to grow stronger and more dangerous.
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¿Se puede realizar un Cambio Organizacional en una organización que en su esencia está concebida para ser rígida e inflexible?
Actualmente, las empresas buscan desarrollar una cultura organizacional que les permita adaptarse a los constantes cambios de su entorno, para así asegurar su supervivencia.
El autor plantea el desafío que representa para los sindicatos argentinos encarar este proceso de transformación, ya que su fuerte cultura organizacional,...
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Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima-a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture-and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters...
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Volveremos, en los años setenta. Vamo a volvé, en 2019. ¿En qué consiste el Medioevo Peronista? ¿Por qué se produce su eterno-retorno? ¿Es cierto que nuestros días más felices siempre fueron peronistas? ¿Será que el peronismo es un intérprete legítimo de las aspiraciones de democracia y justicia social argentinas? ¿O será que las promesas enunciadas por la Leyenda Peronista y su hijo, el Relato Kirchnerista, son más importantes a la...
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Frederic C. Howe lived in interesting times. By education (at Johns Hopkins in the early 1890s) and instinct he was a progressive, in the best sense of that term. From the Cleveland of Tom Johnson to the Washington of FDR he 'unlearned' his early prejudices and given values, yet 'under the ruins' of it all he kept his idealism. Howe's autobiographical record was originally published in 1925. Out of print for some time, this book is now again available,...
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Mark A. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. He is the author of American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy.
Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into...
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Building on the foundational importance of its predecessor (Politics at the Periphery, 1993), Challengers to Duopoly offers an up-to-date overview of the important history of America's third parties and the challenge they represent to the hegemony of the major parties. J. David Gillespie introduces readers to minor partisan actors of three types: short-lived national parties, continuing doctrinal and issue parties, and the significant others at the...
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The book traces the presidential primaries and compares conventional wisdom with the probabilistic scenario. The prediction is that Gore will win the Presidency in 2000 based on the analysis of the primaries. The shakeout in the Republican primary revealed the inherent weakness of the Republican Party in the post Clinton Era. Gore will prevail due to the strong national economy and peace in the international community. The status quo will be preserved...
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The information in this book goes much deeper than the unveiling of Mitt Romneys political record. For the first time in history, we could see a Mormon President at the helm. Do you have any idea what this possible next President believes? Why should his religious beliefs matter to you? When you get through Part I of this book, these questions will be answered. This is NOT a Kennedy Catholic moment. Mitt Romneys beliefs and convictions are so uncanny...
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Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"-the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights...
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Si el populismo no ha muerto, si está "insoportablemente vivo", es porque funciona. Y su eficacia se debe, en buena medida, a que ofrece una forma convincente de explicar el mundo, reflejar las preocupaciones y los miedos de los ciudadanos y proponerles una salida concreta. En otras palabras, sostiene un discurso, una historia con héroes y villanos que da sentido a una realidad que, en el siglo XXI, parece haberlo perdido. Esto vale tanto para Hugo...
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It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 - it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike Harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinstripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of Tory rule. These Tories were young, hip, and they were riding the wave of their Common Sense Revolution, a platform launched a year earlier. Still, there...
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Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support? Based on the opinions and voices of lower and middle...
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Everyone's interested in U.S. politics. They want to know how the Republicans became the party of the rich, and Democrats became so damned liberal. History buffs often ponder the origin and changes that took place in the Republican Party since its inception long before the Civil War. Through the help of researchers, the history has come to light, including the beginnings before calling themselves Republicans. Then, the Early Republicans and the Civil...
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The first comparative analysis of minority conservatism
In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to occupy an awkward and contested political position. Dillard explores the philosophies, politics,...
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A timely analysis of political parties in the United States from 1787 to the present. It is little known that political parties were seen in the United States as deleterious to civil society by the founding fathers. This book revisits the viewpoints expressed by the founding fathers about political parties. It is an exposition of the nature of political parties and how they have achieved and continue to maintain control of federal and state governments....
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Acknowledging that the Republican Party's compass is askew, former congressman Bob Beauprez makes the case for the GOP to return to its founding values and principles. Analyzing the successes, failures, and lost opportunities of the Republican-controlled Congress and White House, Beauprez identifies several crumbling foundations that led to the election defeats in 2006-including his own. He explains his own guiding principles by drawing upon his real-world...
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Imagine the informed Thomas Friedman (of the World is Flat), the provocative Christopher Hitchens (The Trial of Henry Kissinger) and the witty Maureen Dowd (Bush World) producing daily commentaries on international current events. And that is what Anthony Livingston Hall, author of the The iPINIONS Journal weblog, offers in this riveting review of the major events of 2005.
So, if you're tired of partisan talking points masquerading as informed debate,...
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