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“ben boychuk”

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  • The Beholden State

    California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It

    by Steven Malanga, William Voegeli, Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox, Arthur B. Laffer, Steven Greenhut, Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald, Larry Sand, Troy Senik, Andrew Klavan, Tom Gray, Ben Boychuk, John Buntin, Michael Anton, Guy Sorman ...
    California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic opportunity. City Journal has for years been cataloging the political and economic issues of our ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • How We Changed Toronto

    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    by John Sewell ...
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Yes We (Still) Can

    Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

    by Dan Pfeiffer ...
    From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era.On November 9th, 2016, Dan Pfeiffer woke up like most of the world wondering WTF just happened. How had Donald Trump won the White House? How was it that a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Creative Destruction of New York City

    Engineering the City for the Elite

    by Alessandro Busà ...
    Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's administration, many critics think that little has changed in the lives of struggling New Yorkers, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The New Pension Mix in Europe

    Recent Reforms, Their Distributional Effects and Political Dynamics

    Edited by David Natali ...
    Series Book 83 - Travail et Société / Work and Society
    This book – based on a research project carried out by the Observatoire Social Européen asbl, with the financial support of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) – looks at the most recent developments in pension policy and politics in Europe and advances our understanding of the field in three respects: firstly, it contributes to improve our knowledge of the most recent reform wave passed in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Reimagineering the Nation

    Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden

    Edited by Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Anders Neergaard ...
    Series Book 4 - Political and Social Change
    This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European perspective. It addresses changing frameworks of citizenship, welfare and democracy, migration ... Read more

    $84.79 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain

    Central and Eastern European Alterglobalists

    by Grzegorz Piotrowski ...
    This book examines the alterglobalist activists in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork and numerous in-depth interviews with key figures of the movement, it covers mobilizations and actions between 1998 and 2011 and analyzes the process of adapting the alterglobalist way of thinking, claims and organizational modes in post-socialist countries. By ... Read more

    $58.39 USD

  • Capitalist Imperialism in Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks

    New Theories

    by Filip Ilkowski ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred against the backdrop of global economic integration, but also against the contradictions in its ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The American President in Film and Television

    Myth, Politics and Representation

    by Gregory Frame ...
    As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explores the complex relationship between the construction of fictional presidents on screen and the political cultures from which they emerged. How have ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Memory and Pluralism in the Baltic States

    Edited by Eva-Clarita Pettai ...
    Memories, both in individual and collective form, still have a significant impact on how people relate to political processes in Europe today. While much has been written about top-down attempts by states and political actors to mould people’s memories of the past through public commemoration, textbooks or monuments, this volume takes a view from below by focusing on different types of societal ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Political Leadership in Morphogenetic Perspective

    by Filip Pierzchalski ...
    Series Book 10 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal and structural domain. In morphogenesis, the subjective matrix of leadership keeps the division into ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Schiller on Kant’s Aesthetics

    The Public Character of the Beautiful

    by Mihály Szilágyi-Gál ...
    This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The framework that relates aesthetic, moral, and political aspects into such a triadic relationship is an implicit conception of freedom. In «The Critique of Judgment» Kant elaborates the idea that judgments of taste can only exist where society exists. The author regards ... Read more

    $52.89 USD