Elections & Political Process
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew M. Cuomo

People often ask me about the aftermath of my political and personal tribulations. The usual question is, “Did you change?” The better question, I tell them, is, “Did you grow?” ...
( Category: Leadership September 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher

14 * * * Empire About thirteen hundred miles southeast of Moscow, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, a gleaming thirty-three-story building rose ...
( Category: Elections August 24,2016 )
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 | | 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 | 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, mobi |eng | 2016-07-17 | Author:Dinesh D'Souza [D'Souza, Dinesh]

COLONIZING THE PRIVATE SECTOR This continues a trend under Obama in which major industries have, one by one, been colonized by the federal government. The process began in 2009 with ...
( Category: National August 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Doug Henwood

PHILANTHROPIC WORK Clinton fans counter all this smelly stuff by arguing that the Foundation does good work, pointing with special pride to its initiatives on AIDS in Africa. It’s indisputable ...
( Category: Elections July 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Linda Kelly [Kelly, Linda]

Cut short before the qualifying final clause, the sentence implied that Alexander had been privy to his father’s death. It was a saying of the unsayable that caused a diplomatic ...
( Category: Political Parties July 20,2016 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Bolling

THE LEFTIST WAR ON HUMANS Today, this history has been turned upside down. The militant Left places more importance on the rights of trees and animals over people. At the ...
( Category: History & Theory July 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Caroline Cox & John Marks [Cox, Caroline]

Waqf and Islamic finance Jonathan Benthall and Jerome Bellion-Jourdan251 argue that Waqf and Islamic finance are grounded in Islamic tradition. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries they have become major ...
( Category: Fascism July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-08 | Author:David Laws [David Laws]

I was more successful in securing a very small saving in Education Department administration costs, but only after I managed to overcome spirited resistance. I had told my private secretary ...
( Category: History & Theory July 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Sean Wilentz [Wilentz, Sean]

FOR MANY YEARS, the literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been vigorously expanding and institutionalizing the study of African American literature and history, bringing to light forgotten but important ...
( Category: Political Advocacy July 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Michelle Fields

2. Joe Biden In April 2014, violence erupted in Kiev between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian nationalists. At the center of the conflict was natural gas, with Ukraine accusing Russia of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ilya Somin [Somin, Ilya]

CHAPTER 6 Political Ignorance and Judicial Review [J]udicial review is a deviant institution in the American democracy. Alexander Bickel1 LIMITING AND DECENTRALIZING GOVERNMENT POWER can mitigate the problem of political ...
( Category: General June 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-14 | Author:Greg Jobin-Leeds

Others have echoed Saavedra. Many of the Washington, D.C.–based immigrant rights organizations thought they had a friend in the White House with Obama and were trying to play the inside ...
( Category: Political Advocacy June 15,2016 )