Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Process - General

This book describes not just one such idea, but three of them.

Our society's acceptance of the way our Federal Government operates is thoroughly challenged.

Search as you might in any venue, bookstore, library, a friend's den or on the Internet, you won't find another book that will provoke your thinking or energize your politics the way this one will. And all within the purview of our remarkable Constitution.

Democrat or Republican, Left or Right, you will never again be complacent about...

Now, in a collection of his most popular and sometimes most controversial op-eds, George Landrith takes his shots at junk science, high-profile liberals, big government hypocrites, media bias, and more.

• Is global warming a reality that deserves serious attention or a myth perpetuated by leftist scientists and Hollywood liberals?
• Does America's...

Nobody can control Mother Nature but the world's most advanced nation could have protected its citizens better. This disaster revealed the faulty psychological reactions of officials who not only failed to protect the public from danger in New Orleans, but lacked effective responses to the calamity. We elect and hire people who are supposed to protect us from attacks by nature and enemies. However, they fail us because of their human nature. They...

Leadership of both parties now realize that any candidate having chosen to run hurts their party's chances of winning.

In a government by metaphor: Air Force One is now in a deep spiraling dive, which will end only when President Bush's People's Bank of China credit card maxes out. At that point all the jobs will come back with a vengeance.

The Emergency Spin Recovery Procedure detailed in this report is designed to mediate between the competing enemy forces, and thereby avert the rest of the country from piling it in right after Air Force One and Air Force Two. For we have met the...

Now, in a collection of his most popular and sometimes most controversial op-eds, George Landrith takes his shots at junk science, high-profile liberals, big government hypocrites, media bias, and more.

• Is global warming a reality that deserves serious attention or a myth perpetuated by leftist scientists and Hollywood liberals?
• Does America's...

• Provides in-depth discussion of key American political and social issues
• Each controversy presents all sides of the debate
• Covers issues that are part of daily discourse, as well as those discussed in the media and academia
• Can be used alongside David McKay American Politics and Society (Fifth Edition, Blackwell Publishers, 2001) or other American government and politics texts
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In this volume, Norman Gottwald reconstructs the politics of ancient Israel within the larger political environment of the ancient Near East. He questions the prevailing view that the Hebrew Bible, supported by archeological evidence when necessary, should be the primary source to diagram the evolution of Israel's political history. Along with a thorough and nuanced discussion of the matrix of ancient Near Eastern politics, Gottwald suggests how the monarchies of Israel and Judah developed. With imaginative and masterful insight, Gottwald tackles head-on the problems of religion, power,...

This book explores the trials of Spanish democracy from the death of Franco to the present. But the heart of the story is the generation that came of age in the 1960s, assumed political power, and formed the first Socialist government in 1982 with Felipe Gonzalez as Prime Minister, which was returned to power in four consecutive elections. Starting in 1993, however, the government came under siege. High officials were accused of authorizing the assassination of as many as twenty-eight Basque nationalists suspected of terrorism over the years, and of covering up these crimes. This scandal,...

Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? Why are they less likely to seek public office or join political organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal participation.

The authors develop new methods to trace gender differences in political activity to the nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family, school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and church. Different experiences...

The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing do, we do them and ourselves a grave disservice. We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis of leadership, Ronald Heifetz avows, but it stems as much from our demands and expectations as from any leader's inability to meet them. His book gets at both of these problems, offering a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as...