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  • What Justices Want

    Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court

    by Matthew E. K. Hall ...
    The most sophisticated theories of judicial behavior depict judges as rational actors who strategically pursue multiple goals when making decisions. However, these accounts tend to disregard the possibility that judges have heterogeneous goal preferences - that is, that different judges want different things. Integrating insights from personality psychology and economics, this book proposes a new ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Nature of Supreme Court Power

    by Matthew E. K. Hall ...
    Few institutions in the world are credited with initiating and confounding political change on the scale of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is uniquely positioned to enhance or inhibit political reform, enshrine or dismantle social inequalities, and expand or suppress individual rights. Yet despite claims of victory from judicial activists and complaints of undemocratic lawmaking from ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA

    by Richard L. Holm ...
    Many books, fiction and nonfiction alike, purport to probe the inner workings of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Many attempt to create spine-tingling suspense or allege that America's civilian spy operation has run amok and been infested with rogues and criminals. Not that The Craft We Chose lacks suspense, harrowing encounters or itsown share of villains.But this book is different. In fact ... Read more

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  • Because We Say So

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."—New York Times Book Review"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US military's global Interventions. Shock and awe!"—Vanity FairBecause We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Understanding American Politics, Second Edition

    by Stephen Brooks, J. Matthew Wilson, Douglas Koopman ...
    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy.The second edition of Understanding American Politics maintains the unique strengths of the first edition while ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Mayor 1%

    Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%

    by Karin Lydersen ...
    How did a city long dominated by a notorious Democratic Machine become a national battleground in the right-wing war against the public sector? In Mayor 1%, veteran journalist Kari Lydersen takes a close look at Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and his true agenda.With deep Wall Street ties from his investment banking years and a combative political style honed in Congress and the Clinton and Obama ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights

    How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

    by Joseph Mello ...
    If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it’s that rights do not exist in a vacuum. What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage used appeals to religious liberty and parental rights to win ballot measure campaigns, but could not duplicate this success in court. Looking at the same-sex marriage debate at the ballot ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Least Among Us

    Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable

    by Rosa L. DeLauro ...
    The outspoken Connecticut congresswoman provides "a powerful case for protecting and expanding America's safety net" (Elizabeth Warren).Cynical politicians like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump argue that the people of the United States would be better off without food stamps, Obamacare, and workplace protections. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro knows these folks are just plain wrong.Growing up in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby

    Corporate Rights and Religious Liberties

    by Eugene Volokh ...
    Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case—Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby— that has arisen as society tries to reconcile corporate rights with religious liberty.Since the Hobby Lobby’s founding, the Green family has managed their ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Television Courtroom Broadcasting Effects

    The Empirical Research and the Supreme Court Challenge

    by Paul Lambert ...
    Court and policy makers have increasingly had to deal with—and sometimes even embrace—technology, from podcasts to the Internet. Televised courtroom broadcasting especially remains an issue. The debate surrounding the US Supreme Court and federal courts, as well as the great disparity between different forms of television courtroom broadcasting, rages on. What are the effects of television ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Factions and Pyramids

    by Nicholas Abson ...
    The world order is structured in three levels; factions, authorities and collectives. Symbolically, it is a triangle, but more accurately a Pyramid.Factions are the power at the pinnacle, the authorities the instrument of power beneath and the collectives the builders of value at the base.It is a feudal arrangement, little different from the past, merely of greater sophistication. ... Read more

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  • Adjudicating New Governance

    Deliberative Democracy in the European Union

    by Emilia Korkea-aho ...
    This book engages with and advances the current debate on new governance by providing a much-needed analysis of its relationship with the courts. New modes of governance have produced a plethora of instruments and actors at various levels that present a challenge to more traditional forms of command-and-control regulation. In this respect, it is commonly maintained that new governance generally – ... Read more

    $72.99 USD