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Claude M. Rocan (1950-2020) est né à St. Boniface, Manitoba. Il a réalisé ses études au Collège universitaire Glendon (Université York) et à l'Université McMaster avant d'obtenir son doctorat en science politique à l'Université York. Il a occupé des postes de politique/conseil dans le gouvernement de la Saskatchewan et le gouvernement du Canada aux niveaux supérieurs professionnels et exécutifs. En tant que Directeur général du Centre...
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Andrea Louise Campbell is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University from 2001-2003.
Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of...
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On September 10, 2001, the United States was the most open country in the world. But in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, the U.S. government began to close its borders in an effort to fight terrorism. The Bush administration's goal was to build new lines of defense without stifling the flow of people and ideas from abroad that has helped build the world's most dynamic economy. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way.
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A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it's so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an Attorney Advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions. During this time, he learned why the system is stacked against the claimant throughout the process. After he left SSA, he wanted to make this knowledge available to everyone.
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The US public has been led to believe that Social Security is going bankrupt and that our children will be burdened with supporting the elderly unless it is reformed. Benavie will refute these arguments. While it is true that our public pension system can be improved, this book will separate the widely accepted economic facts of the issue from personal value judgements. This book is an invaluable guide to understanding and making informed decisions...
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In The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome, Kevin Williamson, a National Review Online contributor, makes the bold argument that the United States government is disintegrating-and that it is a good thing!
Williamson offers a radical re-envisioning of government, a powerful analysis of why it doesn't work, and an exploration of the innovative solutions to various social problems that are spontaneously emerging as a result of the failure of politics...
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Edwin Amenta is professor of sociology and history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Professor Baseball and Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy (Princeton).
When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression...
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In ›Die Erfindung der Verschwendung‹ begibt sich der Leser auf eine fesselnde Reise durch die faszinierende Geschichte und psychologische Dimension der Verschwendung. Von den frühesten Tagen der Menschheit bis hin zur modernen Konsumgesellschaft zeigt dieses Buch auf packende Weise, wie Verschwendung nicht nur eine unvermeidliche Nebenwirkung des Fortschritts war, sondern auch eine tief verwurzelte menschliche Neigung.
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Claude M. Rocan (1950-2020) est né à St. Boniface, Manitoba. Il a réalisé ses études au Collège universitaire Glendon (Université York) et à l'Université McMaster avant d'obtenir son doctorat en science politique à l'Université York. Il a occupé des postes de politique/conseil dans le gouvernement de la Saskatchewan et le gouvernement du Canada aux niveaux supérieurs professionnels et exécutifs. En tant que Directeur général du Centre...
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Teresa Ghilarducci, after having taught economics for twenty-five years at the University of Notre Dame, now holds the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. She is also the 2006-2008 Wurf Fellow at Harvard Law School. Her books include Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions.
A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming...
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Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don't act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement...
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Sometimes, one moment changes a person's life. And that person goes on to change other lives. That's what happened to Frances Perkins. After she witnessed the 1911 catastrophic fire at the Triangle Waist Company, in which one hundred and forty-six people died, she devoted her life to improving conditions for workers. Frances became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet. As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped...
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The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth to the 1935 Social Security Act, Poole demonstrates that segregation was built into the very foundation of the welfare state because white policy makers--both...
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