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“peter h schuck”

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Meditations of a Militant Moderate

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    The book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation in many public debates. The articles are grouped into six, topical groupings that range widely: the growing need for moderate voices in policy ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Understanding America

    The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation

    Edited by James Q. Wilson, Peter H Schuck ...
    What is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the huddled masses, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition of this complex nation has been debated substantially, yet all seem to agree on one thing: it is unique. The idea of an exceptional America can be traced all the way back to Alexis ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • One Nation Undecided

    Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    A unique primer on how to think intelligently about the thorniest public issues confronting us todayLet's be honest, we've all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without always thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it's hard to know how to think about these tough challenges, much less what to do about them. One ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Meditations of a Militant Moderate

    Cool Views on Hot Topics

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    Vital center. Radical middle. Amid the red state/blue state divide, is there now space for an iconoclastic militant moderate? In this unusual and remarkably readable collection of short essays on a wide variety of hot-button public issues-race, affirmative action, surrogate motherhood, diversity, immigration, compensation of 9/11 victims, exclusion of gays from the Boy Scouts and the military, the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Immigration and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

    by Noah M. J. Pickus, Linda S. Bosniak, Michael Jones-Correa, Charles R. Kesler, John J. Miller, Hiroshi Motomura, Juan F. Perea, Peter H. Schuck, Daniel J. Tichenor0, Kwame Anthony Appiah1, Joseph H. Carens2, David A. Hollinger3 ...
    In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual citizenship, and the changing rights and responsibilities of citizens and resident aliens in the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Two Nations

    Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

    by Andrew Hacker ...
    In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker offers a fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in present-day America, analyzing the conditions that keep black and white Americans dangerously far apart in their ability to achieve the American dream.Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead ... Read more

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  • Grand New Party

    How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream

    by Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam ...
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  • Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?

    The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate

    by Frances Fox Piven ...
    The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the “Cloward/Piven Strategy,” a world view responsible, according to Beck, for everything from creating a “culture of poverty” and fomenting “violent revolution” to causing global warming and the recent financial crisis. Called an “enemy of the ... Read more

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  • Free Markets under Siege

    Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics, Richard Epstein examines how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention—and find a middle way between socialism and libertarianism. He argues the merits of competition over protectionism and reveals the negative results that ensue when political forces displace economic competition with ... Read more

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  • Universal Rights Down to Earth

    by Richard Thompson Ford ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    A path-blazing lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities.The idea of universal rights—rights shared by all citizens, regardless of nationality, creed, wealth, or geography—has a powerful grip on the way many people feel about justice and global politics. No one should be subjected to torture or disappearance, to starvation or sex trafficking, to ... Read more

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