Public Affairs & Policy
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 | 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 | 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 | 2016-08-12 | Author:Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel

Plan of Brasília by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa Building a city entirely from scratch allows the planner to selectively use only the most advanced technology of the time. Recalling ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development August 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bradford DeLong [DeLong, Bradford]

The Long Age of Ike is a splendid example of America’s recurrent history of government using whatever means it can muster that fit the situation—changing laws and regulations, extending the ...
( Category: Economic Policy August 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Andy Stern [Stern, Andy]

Chapter 7 EN ROUTE TO A NEW AMERICAN DREAM EARLIER, ANDY GROVE’S insights on the strategic inflection point helped galvanize my thinking about the impact technology was having on jobs, ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-09 | Author:Dan Zak

PART III RELATIVITY/ UNCERTAINTY Truth is not that which can be demonstrated by the aid of logic. If orange-trees are hardy and rich in fruit in this bit of soil ...
( Category: Arms Control July 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Robert Wyss

14. Diablo and Galápagos Taking risks has been my trouble in the environmental movement. Because I am a climber, I am aware that there’s a certain amount of danger in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 24,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Elizabeth Hinton [Hinton, Elizabeth]

PUNISHING “POTENTIAL CRIMINALS” AND “DELINQUENTS” As the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act successfully removed white youth from penal institutions and provided them with rehabilitative services, it vastly expanded the ...
( Category: Social Policy July 24,2016 )
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 | 2016-03-24 | Author:Malcolm K. Sparrow

Wrong Level of Focus Social scientists focus on subtle effects at high (aggregate) levels; problem solving focuses on much more obvious effects but at lower levels. Social scientists (and economists) ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-09 | Author:Anya Schiffrin

QUESTIONS AND ISSUES FOR JOURNALISTS 1. Will the foreign-owned entity be export-oriented, or will it sell locally? Export-oriented firms generally have the advantage of generating hard-currency income for the host ...
( Category: General July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Michael Batty [Batty, Michael]

Figure 8.1 Constructing a space-filling curve: The Koch snowflake curve. (a) Successive displacement of the central section of a line at ever-finer scales. (b) Application of the displacement rule to ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Orrin H. Pilkey

Recently the Army Corps of Engineers declared that Fire Island, New York, had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy, a clear misunderstanding of barrier-island evolution processes. Some islands are narrow and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Buchanan, Patrick J.

In his enraged epistle, Lee confessed that he had to hold himself back from shouting at the screen. He attacked screenwriter Robert Rodat for not making the Gibson character a ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 1,2016 )