Edward C. Banfield. some wards would make it possible to move certain patients to other institutions. ' Meyer agreed that a South Side hospital should be built. (It should have 1,500 beds, he said, not 700, as the Welfare Council ...
It especially tried to use this leeway to soften rules imposing limits to the amount of commodity derivatives that any person can hold at a specific time. When ESMA partly gave into these demands, according to Hatcher and Chapple (2016, ...
In Hijacking the Agenda, political scientists Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns examine why Congress privileges the concerns of businesses and the wealthy over those of average Americans.
who forced the ERA out of committee in order to achieve hearings on the issue and moved the amendment toward a vote by the full House and Senate. In 1972, the ERA was finally granted a floor vote and passed the House and Senate by wide ...
In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged.
This book is about how people are affected by their perceptions of the collective opinions of others.
This collection of entries offers a front seat view of the rise, reign, and fall of powerful modern political families and examines the effects they have had on political, social, and economic issues in American society.
What is missing is the kind of consensus about an operational definition of the concept of power that would bring this work usefully into focus.
In this book Mark Harvey takes a close look into the phenomenon of celebrity advocacy in an attempt to determine the nature of celebrity influence, and the source and extent of its power.
This book moves beyond sensationalist accounts of foreign influence over U.S. policy making to address a growing issue in security and intelligence.
In this chapter the topic of this book is introduced.