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Since Israel began its construction in 2002, the Wall has sparked intense debate, being condemned as illegal by the International Court of Justice.
Israel claims it is a security measure to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks. Opponents point to the serious impact on the rights of Palestinians, depriving them of their land, mobility and access to health and educational services.
This book explores the Palestinian experience...
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The largest war the world had ever seen, World War I caused thousands to lose their belief in God and their hope for the future. Yet LDS servicemen on the front lines kept the faith, despite numerous physical and spiritual dangers. Though these soldiers suffered hardships, these stories show how they‚ like the Army of Helaman‚ were miraculously preserved and protected according to the Lord's promises.
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Hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide, Power Trip is the explosive memoir of one of Westminster's most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. Known by friend and foe as 'Mad Dog'...
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Fighting Corporate Abuse demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses in the corporate sector that have been revealed in recent years. It highlights the more general contribution of company law and practice to the current crisis in capitalism.
The first section develops a controversial argument, using detailed illustrations and vivid examples which show how the various...
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David Lublin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina.
In The Paradox of Representation David Lublin offers an unprecedented analysis of a vast range of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation: Racial redistricting remains vital to the election of African Americans and Latinos but makes Congress less likely to adopt policies...
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George Tsebelis is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics and coauthor of Bicameralism. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hoover National Fellowship, and a Russell Sage Fellowship, he has published numerous papers on the institutions of the European Union and on comparative institutional analysis.
Political scientists have long...
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The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters of Power Trip Damian McBride details the aftermath of the book's publication and outlines his shocking predictions for the future of the Labour Party, politics and the economy with...
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James Q. Wilson is the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books and has served on numerous national commissions concerned with public policy.
A major work by one of America's eminent political scientists, Political Organizations has had a profound impact on how we view the influence of interest groups on policymaking. James Wilson wrote this book to counter...
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Der globale Kapitalismus schreitet zunehmend voran. Lediglich 147 Konzerne - so Schweizer Wissenschaftler - steuern und kontrollieren die gesamte Weltwirtschaft und damit auch unser Leben. Die wahre Macht liege demnach nicht mehr bei den Staatsorganen, sondern bei internationalen Großkonzernen.
Wie kam diese Entwicklung zustande und was können wir selbst für unser eigenes Leben und für die Gesellschaft dagegen unternehmen?
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Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince has been one of the most widely read and quoted book about politics during the past five centuries. But, in the democracies of the information age, new ideas are needed to make government prosper through the next century. Now, Dick Morris, who contributed significantly to President Clinton's reelection in 1996 and, during the previous two decades, helped many public officials (Democrats and Republicans alike) gain...
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For more than four decades, polarized politics in America has been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and a sensationalist media energized by bringing public officials down. In this sorely needed book Lanny Davis, who has been in the belly of the beast as Special Counsel to the Clinton White House, explains--starting with historical scandals like Alexander Hamilton's extramarital...
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Lee Ann Banaszak is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University.
Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote. When the last Swiss canton enfranchised women in 1990, few countries barred women from the polls. Why did pro-suffrage activists in the United States and Switzerland have such varying success? Comparing suffrage campaigns in forty-eight...
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The description for this book, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics, will be forthcoming. "This is one of the most important books in political science to have been published in the post-World War II era. It is a book indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary American politics and public opinion."---Bernard Grofman, International Journal of Public Opinion Research
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Die westliche Welt ist Veränderungen ausgesetzt ist, die zu ihrem Niedergang und dem Verlust der Zweitausendjährigen Herrschaft über den Rest der Welt führen wird. Diese Entwicklungen und die darauf basierende Analyse des Autors werden in dem mehrteiligen Buch über den tiefen Fall des Westens beschrieben.
Der Autor sieht, dass Dreiviertel der Welt nicht mehr bereit ist, die Hegemonie des weißen Mannes und des Westens weiter hinzunehmen. Der...
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In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor...
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Christopher Howard is Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary.
Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher...
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"Co-Winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration" Jacob S. Hacker is a Guest Scholar in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, a doctoral candidate in political science at Yale University, and a Robert M. Leylan Fellow in Social Sciences at Yale University.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated...
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Alpha Dogs is the story of the men from an enormously influential campaign business called Sawyer Miller who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard Nixon's to George W. Bush's. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with dreams of a career as a filmmaker; Scott Miller, the son of an Ohio shoe salesman, had a knack for copywriting. Unlikely partners, they became a political powerhouse, directing democratic revolutions...
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"Winner of the 2015 Legacy Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" William G. Howell is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. In 2001 he received both the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American politics, from the American Political Science Association, and the Center for Presidential Studies prize...
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Ken Kollman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
In Outside Lobbying, Ken Kollman explores why and when interest group leaders in Washington seek to mobilize the public in order to influence policy decisions in Congress. In the past, political scientists have argued that lobbying groups make outside appeals primarily because of their own internal dynamics--to recruit new members, for example. Kollman, however,...
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