Books of Political Science / American Government / General
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A Treatise on Government, and Constitutional Law: Being an Inquiry Into the Source and Limitation of Governmental Authority, According to...
By Joel TiffanyA Treatise on Government, and Constitutional Law: Being an Inquiry Into the Source and Limitation of Governmental Authority, According to...
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The Political Economy of Democratic Decentralization
By James ManorPrinted on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact [email protected] Contact [email protected], if currently unavailable. Advocates of...
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Going Negative: How Attack Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate
By Shanto Iyengar, Stephen AnsolabehereDrawing on both laboratory experiments and the real world of America's presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional races, the authors show that negative advertising drives down voter turnout - in some cases...
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Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality & Presidential Image-making in Postmodern Politics
By Shawn J. Parry-Giles, Trevor Parry-GilesBill Clinton is the embodiment and epitome of American politics in the postmodern, mediated age. Clinton's able marshaling of images, which allowed him to retain popularity and position when faced...
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Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays
By Thomas SowellIn this latest collection of his highly provocative essays, Thomas Sowell once again demonstrates why he is one of the most thoughtful, readable, and controversial thinkers of our time. With...
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War on Waste
By President's Private Sector Survey on Cost ControlThis final report of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control details the more than two thousand cost-cutting recommendations proposed by the commission and documents examples of federal system...
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The Readiness Enhancement Model: A Personnel Inventory Projection Model of the Army's Reserve Components
By Herbert J. ShukiarRAND has developed the Readiness Enhancement Model, a personnel inventory projection model for the Army's Reserve Components. The model supported research carried out under the Arroyo Center's Reserve Component personnel...
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Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces: An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options
By Eric PeltzThe goal of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept is to rely on rapidly deployable, immediately employable, highly effective and flexible air and space packages to flexibly serve the strategic...
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Strategic Appraisal, 1996
By Zalmay KhalilzadToday, the United States possesses military predominance, and American political and economic ideas have broad global appeal. Almost all of the economically capable nations are our allies. Yet the end...
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美国世纪结束了吗？
By 约瑟夫·奈《美国世纪结束了吗？》是“软实力之父”、亚太事务专家、新自由主义学派代表人物约瑟夫·奈继《软实力》之后全新力作！作者亲撰中文版序，强调中美关系是21世纪zui重要的双边关系之一，希望两国消除误解，发展新型大国关系！未来国际政治格局变化莫测，美国目前仍居世界霸主地位，其是否会在下个世纪继续保持这种状态？中国和平崛起是否会导致美国世纪的终结？中美两国关系的发展如何避免修昔底德陷阱？《美国世纪结束了吗？》集约瑟夫·奈二十年研究成果之精华，通俗直白且极具震撼力地解答21世纪备受瞩目的国际问题。
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Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History
By Eric FonerThe freedom theme is explored in the words of well-known historical figures and ordinary Americans. Each document is accompanied by an introductory headnote and study questions.
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Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries
By James B. StewartBlood Sport: The President and His Adversaries
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Barack Obama in His Own Words
By Barack ObamaSince delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear savior of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity...
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Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania
By Andrew ShankmanArguments over what democracy actually meant in practice and how it should be implemented raged throughout the early American republic. As Andrew Shankman shows, nowhere were those ideas more intensely...
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Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery
By Kenneth S. GreenbergGreenberg shows how planters and statesmen grappled with contradictory ideas and uses of power... His fresh insights on statesmanship, dueling, political parties and representation, the proslavery movement, and the origins...
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The Warren Court and American Politics
By L. A. Scot PoweThe Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren was the most revolutionary and controversial Supreme Court in American history. But in what sense? Challenging the reigning consensus that the Warren...
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Governing by Campaigning: The Politics of the Bush Presidency
By George C. EdwardsIn this brief book, George Edwards, one of the foremost experts on the presidency and author of "Why the Electoral College is Bad for America,” explores how the Bush administration...
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Historically Underutilized Businesses: (HUBs)
By U.S. Commission on Minority Business DevelopmentHistorically Underutilized Businesses: (HUBs)
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The Promise of American Life
By Herbert David CrolyThe average American is nothing if not patriotic. "The Americans are filled," says Mr. Emil Reich in his "Success among the Nations," "with such an implicit and absolute confidence in...
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Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics
By Clyde Wilcox, Mark J. RozellBy the early 1990s, the Christian Right was a force to be reckoned with in Virginia politics. In 1993, former Moral Majority leader Michael Farris won the Republican nomination for...