Elections & Political Process
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Levin, Mark R. [Levin, Mark R.]

Obviously, Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws had virtually nothing in common with the utopias in Plato’s Republic, More’s Utopia, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and, later, Marx’s workers’ paradise. Montesquieu’s greatest concern ...
( Category: Political Parties August 28,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Bryan Caplan [Caplan, Bryan]

Figure 6.2 Electoral Impact of Irrationality of Otherwise Identical Voters with Heterogeneous Beliefs Top: Distribution of Beliefs on Welfare-Maximizing Level of Protection Bottom: Distribution of Most-Preferred Platforms on Protection A ...
( Category: Elections August 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Michael Ignatieff

In September 2008, after two and a half years in power, Mr. Harper decided that his attack ads against our leader had softened up the electoral terrain sufficiently to allow ...
( Category: General August 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Daniel Halper

7 The Bubble “She made, I believe, personal judgment calls that turned out to be the wrong call and it cost people their lives.” —U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz On January ...
( Category: Leadership August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Norman G. Finkelstein

4/ PEOPLE’S MAN What did satyagraha look like in action? I will examine Gandhi’s key political interventions during the period 1930–1947, when his ideas were put to their severest tests. ...
( Category: Political Advocacy August 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Rick Perlstein [Perlstein, Rick]

CHAPTER TWENTY * * * New Right FOCUSING ON THE GLITTERING PERSONALITIES, pundits little noticed the right-wing insurgency bubbling barely beneath the surface—what conservatives referred to, like civil rights activists ...
( Category: Leadership August 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Yuval Levin

FIVE REASON AND PRESCRIPTION IF NATURAL EQUALITY IS THE CRUCIAL PREMISE OF Enlightenment-liberal politics, and government by consent its essential form, then human reason is its great moving force. Reason ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Levin, Yuval [Levin, Yuval]

FIVE REASON AND PRESCRIPTION IF NATURAL EQUALITY IS THE CRUCIAL PREMISE OF Enlightenment-liberal politics, and government by consent its essential form, then human reason is its great moving force. Reason ...
( Category: General July 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

Indeed the historian Legrain saw Henri in a dirty white coat, worn and soiled by his armour and with ragged sleeves, and in stockings torn and in holes.13 The nobles ...
( Category: Leadership July 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

Incentives We Have a Winner! The shrub Rubia tinctorum, commonly known as madder, grows delicate yellow flowers in the summer, before small dark red berries begin to line its stems ...
( Category: History & Theory July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nash, George H.

Were it not for the wounds that Lincoln inflicted on the Constitution, it would have been infinitely more difficult for Franklin Roosevelt to carry through his revolution, for the coercive ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:Davidson, Christopher

Censorship and limiting expression Best viewed as an early response to the accumulating internal pressures in the Gulf monarchies, coupled with a lack of transparency associated with prevailing political structures, ...
( Category: State June 24,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Mark Steyn [Steyn, Mark]

Page 73 Sounds very nice. But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other than ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-14 | Author:Philip Bobbitt [Bobbitt, Philip]

If we take this idea—the creation of a constitution for the society of states4 from the settlement of an epochal war—in light of the relation between such wars and the ...
( Category: History & Theory May 29,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-01-09 | Author:John Milton Cooper, Jr. [Cooper, Milton John]

On November 7, when the returns came in, Wilson thought he might have to implement the plan. On election day, he and Edith drove to Princeton, where he voted once ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2014 )