Democracy
epub |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:Richard Beeman

FEDERALIST NO. 78: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, MAY 28, 1788 “Federalist No. 78” is Alexander Hamilton’s most significant contribution to The Federalist Papers. The principle topic of the essay is the importance ...
( Category: Constitutions June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Horowitz, David & Poe, Richard [Horowitz, David]

Pew Charitable Trusts $40.1 million Bill Moyers ’ Schumann Center for Media and Democracy $17.6 million Carnegie Corporation of New York $14.1 million Joyce Foundation $13.5 million George Soros’ Open ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 11,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:Howard Zinn

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Hedges, Chris [Hedges, Chris]

Party to Murder DECEMBER 29, 2008 Can anyone following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Mike McCabe [McCabe, Mike]

Chapter 10 Finding The Missing R Inventing a new political identity and, more importantly, a new political household for American commoners are necessary for renewal of our ailing democracy, but ...
( Category: Political Advocacy June 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Teegarden, David

Conclusion The events analyzed in this chapter underscore the importance for pro-democrats to maintain their threat credibility. A dramatic, foundational “moment”—such as a public trial or oath against tyrants—certainly was ...
( Category: Democracy May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Fareed Zakaria [Zakaria, Fareed]

CHAPTER 5 Too Much of a Good Thing THEY SAY THAT money can’t buy happiness, but you would think $5 trillion would make a dent. In the last quarter-century the ...
( Category: Democracy May 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Murray Bookchin

Thus, libertarian municipalism is not merely an effort simply to take over city councils to construct a more environmentally friendly city government. Such an approach, in effect, views the civic ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1997-05-07 | Author:Pettit, Philip [Pettit, Philip]

Personal independence The third of our five areas of policy-making bears, not on what should be done by way of providing the collective goods of defence and protection, but rather ...
( Category: Political Parties March 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2003-09-05 | Author:Moore, Barrington [Moore, Barrington]

As one looks back over the history of the Japanese village since the seventeenth century, the feature most likely to strike the historian is its continuity. The oligarchical structure, internal ...
( Category: Democracy March 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein

to you, Jim Swiftly has an agreement with Weather-vane. Here is an impasse; you won't caucus with Weather-vane on the list, Swiftly won't caucus unless he is on the list. ...
( Category: Democracy February 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-08 | Author:Nonie Darwish

Muslim leaders today can no longer contain their fear about the growing numbers of people becoming disillusioned with Islam. This topic was recently openly discussed in the Arab media. The ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Somin, Ilya [Somin, Ilya]

CHAPTER SIX 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 January 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Sasha Issenberg [Issenberg, Sasha]

WHEN SHAME PAYS A HOUSE CALL In 2002, Todd Rogers opened a manila file folder and let a flurry of newspaper and magazine clips settle on the kitchen table of ...
( Category: Elections December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-25 | Author:Popkin, Richard [Popkin, Richard]

Nine The Assassination If we take at face value the cases in which people saw someone who looked like Oswald, used Oswald’s name, imitated Oswald’s life and family, then how ...
( Category: Democracy December 27,2014 )