Political Science
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

CHAPTER SIX A CHANCE FOR PEACE? American officials had long assumed that Stalin’s death would expose the fragility of his regime. As far back as February 1946, George Kennan advised ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Satter

5 A System Under Threat The system created under Putin was oppressive but not overbearing. It demanded participation in or tolerance for corruption, but this was seen by many Russians ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Greg Cashman

ROOTS OF WAR: LONG-TERM CAUSES Religion The conflict between India and Pakistan is often presented as a conflict between Hindus and Muslims, one that links religious rivalry with territorial identity. ...
( Category: History & Theory September 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jason Brennan [Brennan, Jason]

Is King Carl Acting Unjustly? Imagine that the unfortunate kingdom of Bungleland suffers under the rule of King Carl the Incompetent. For the most part, King Carl means well. But ...
( Category: Democracy September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Richard Falk

It is my overall argument that the gaps between HF and HN are unsustainable, although assessments of the specific timing and forms of collapse remain speculative, contested, and hidden from ...
( Category: History & Theory September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chen, Cheng;

Elite Commitment and Regime Ideology-Building in China Given the continuing authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party, it would be tempting to assume overall elite unity in China. But since ...
( Category: Asian September 4,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:James Carville

THANKS, OBAMA(CARE) In the alternate universe that exists inside a Tea Partier’s cerebellum, America is a raging dumpster fire—and the thing that put the match to the garbage was, of ...
( Category: Comparative Politics August 24,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Deirdre N. McCloskey [McCloskey, Deirdre N.]

42 Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity “One history of Western politics,” writes the political philosopher Mika LaVaque-Manty, citing Charles Taylor and Peter Berger (he could have cited ...
( Category: History & Theory August 23,2016 )
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 | 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 | 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 | 2016-05-16 | 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, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas DiLorenzo [DiLorenzo, Thomas]

SOCIALISM’S ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARES The environmental perils of government ownership are even more pronounced under socialism. The collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s and early 1990s provided a ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Leith

The artificial memory includes backgrounds and images. . . . We shall need to study with special care the backgrounds we have adopted so that they may cling lastingly in ...
( Category: History & Theory August 10,2016 )