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“christopher a cooper”

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  • At the Pleasure of the Crown

    The Politics of Bureaucratic Appointments

    by Christopher A. Cooper ...
    Unlike most public servants, top administrators – those who manage thousands of personnel and oversee millions of dollars in public spending – are appointed by the head of government. At the Pleasure of the Crown is a detailed exploration of this central but overlooked aspect of governing.Christopher A. Cooper analyzes the appointment of deputy ministers in Canada’s provincial bureaucracies over ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Anatomy of a Purple State

    A North Carolina Politics Primer

    by Christopher A. Cooper ...
    North Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural divide—these issues are all brought into sharp relief in the Tar Heel State. For that reason, North Carolina politics and government are increasingly of interest not just to North Carolina citizens but ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Presidential Swing States

    by David F. Damore, Rafael Jacob, Sean D. Foreman, Elizabeth Maltby, Rebecca D. Gill, Dante J. Scala, Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts, Neil Kraus, Aaron C. Weinschenk0, Donna R. Hoffman1, Christopher W. Larimer2, James P. Melcher3, Amy Fried4, Nathaniel Swigger5, David A. Dulio6, John S. Klemanski7, Kate Kenski8, Karen L. Owen9, Kyle Hull0, Scott McLean1, David Schultz2, Dr. Christopher Borick4 ...
    The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest percentage turnout in 60 years, the election still came down to a handful of swing states that ultimately decided the election. In their third edition of Presidential Swing States, Rafael Jacob and David ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • The New Politics of North Carolina

    Edited by Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts ...
    Political scientist V. O. Key in 1949 described North Carolina as a “progressive plutocracy.” He argued that in the areas of industrial development, public education, and race relations, North Carolina appeared progressive when compared to other southern states. Reconsidering Key’s evaluation nearly sixty years later, contributors to this volume find North Carolina losing ground as a progressive ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Resilience of Southern Identity

    Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People

    by Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts ...
    The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region’s politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded — chain restaurants have replaced mom ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Anatomy of a Purple State

    A North Carolina Politics Primer

    by Christopher A. Cooper ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    North Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural divide—these issues are all brought into sharp relief in the Tar Heel State. For that reason, North Carolina politics and government are increasingly of interest not just to North Carolina citizens but ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Development

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Goldin ...
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    What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years.The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader ... Read more

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  • Let the People Pick the President

    The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College

    by Jesse Wegman ...
    The veteran journalist presents "an illuminating history and analysis" of the American electoral system—and a bold call for change ( Kirkus).The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core ... Read more

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  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Read more

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  • Give Us the Ballot

    The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

    by Ari Berman ...
    A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015An NPR Best Book of 2015Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been pai... ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Corporate Crime

    by Laureen Snider ...
    Series Book 8 - About Canada
    When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, and yet our prisons are filled with people who commit “street theft.” In order to understand why ... Read more

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