Politics & Government
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Howard Means

The dearth of compassion often came with a caveat. “This is all very tragic,” a husband and wife wrote to the Record-Courier, “yet if this is what it takes to ...
( Category: State & Local August 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Jane Jacobs

TEN Why Backward Cities Need One Another The Shah of Iran wanted an economy like America’s, Japan’s and northern Europe’s. He thought he could have it if he had the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development August 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosa Brooks

Born in Blood We can go further: maybe the apparent permanence and ubiquity of the nation-state is just a mirage. We take it for granted that states are (and ought ...
( Category: National & International Security August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael G. Trachtman

Price Fixing and “Per Se” Violations Ever creative, companies in the early 1900s pursued another activity that allowed them to raise prices without creating monopolies: price fixing agreements. The leaders ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Dilks [Dilks, David]

There were other objections to the proposal, which Eden asked his colleagues to reject.44 The Chiefs of Staff agreed with him, as did the War Cabinet. A happier fate awaited ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-18 | Author:Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas;

American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell addresses a rally in Chicago in 1966. (Courtesy of AP/Wide World Photos) Matt Koehl as leader of the National Socialist White People’s Party ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Todd G. Buchholz

Alexander may have admired other cultures but he felt no guilt when trumpeting his own superiority or that of Greek culture. A man who carries Homer into battle apologizes for ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-18 | Author:Robert S. Erikson & Christopher Wlezien

5.4 Conclusions This chapter has documented the relationship between the vote division throughout the election year and the Election Day vote. At the beginning of the year, vote intentions tell ...
( Category: Elections August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:Achen, Christopher H.,Bartels, Larry M.

Figure 7.4. Depression and Recovery in Eight Countries, 1928–1940 In the United States, the resulting New Deal realignment replaced a profoundly conservative government with a liberal—critics would say radical—alternative. The ...
( Category: Civics & Citizenship August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Polsby, Nelson W.,Wildavsky, Aaron,Schier, Steven E.,Hopkins, David A. & Aaron Wildavsky & Steven E. Schier & David A. Hopkins

CAMPAIGN PROFESSIONALS Presidential candidates have never lacked for willing accomplices in their quest for office. In the first partisan election battle in American history, the election of 1800, the crucial ...
( Category: Elections August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Abby W. Schachter

CHAPTER 5 The War on Fun Banning play, toys, and games YOU’VE NO DOUBT heard of the war on poverty and the war on women, but what about the war ...
( Category: Social Services & Welfare August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Pamela K. Lamb

Senate • The U.S. vice president, although not a Senate member, is the presiding officer of the Senate, according to the Constitution. The vice president may not debate and only ...
( Category: Civics & Citizenship August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Calestous Juma [Juma, Calestous]

Calling the Tune The emergence of recorded music drastically changed the music landscape. Sound recording democratized music and made listening more convenient. But it threatened the employment of live musicians ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Jasmine Guy

The trees outside my bay window burst with color. It's a warm autumn day. A clean fresh breeze hits my face, and I smell detergent. "I love when people do ...
( Category: Rap & Hip-Hop August 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Tom Fletcher

New technology is an extraordinary opportunity to jump-start the connection between the public and public servants. Increasingly, those in political life will have to use people’s desire for connectivity rather ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 13,2016 )