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  • Barriers to Learning

    The Case for Integrated Mental Health Services in Schools

    by Debra S. Lean, Vincent A. Colucci ...
    A key concern for educators, administrators, professional support services personnel, parents and policy makers are barriers to learning, particularly student mental health. Statistics reveal that up to 20 percent of children and youth have mental health issues and up to 80 percent do not receive proper intervention.Barriers to Learning enables readers to gain valuable insight into the challenges ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Civil Society and Electoral Accountability in Latin America

    by S. Lean ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What is the role of civic associations in generating electoral accountability, and how do efforts by national groups to ensure free and fair elections advance democratic consolidation? Lean advances our understanding of how civic activism can strengthen election processes and provides new insight into role of elections for democratic consolidation. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power

    by Geoffrey Dunn ...
    In The Lies of Sarah Palin, Geoffrey Dunn provides the first full-scale and in-depth political biography of the controversial Republican vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska.Based on more than two-hundred interviews---many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin's---and more than forty-thousand pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles ... Read more

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  • Ratf**ked

    Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

    by David Daley ...
    David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see” (Washington Post), David Daley’s Ratf**ked documents the effort of Republican legislators and political operatives to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy

    The Munk Debates

    by Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau squared off on September 28, 2015, in Toronto, for the first-ever federal election debate on Canada’s foreign policy.Too often, foreign policy issues have been afterthoughts in federal election campaigns. Now, for the first time, Canadians will have the opportunity to see the three federal party leaders ... Read more

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  • The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma

    Why Election Observation Became an International Norm

    by Susan D. Hyde ...
    Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? In The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma, Susan ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Crude Nation

    How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

    by Raúl Gallegos ...
    Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc.Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela’s ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Crossroads

    The Future of American Politics

    by Andrew Cuomo ...
    An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America’s political future.America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world’s lone superpower—in Andrew Cuomo’s words, “both the tamer and target of an unstable world.” New technology and the omnipresent media have transformed the way we do everything, from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

    Mexico's PRI

    by Joy K. Langston ...
    When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Latin American Elections

    Choice and Change

    by Richard Nadeau, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon, Eric Belanger, Francois Gelineau ...
    The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability in this region. Analyzing data from the AmericasBarometer, a scientific public opinion survey ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Latino Identity and Political Attitudes

    Why Are Latinos Not Republican?

    by Angel Saavedra Cisneros ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship. Despite hopes of the Republican Party for bringing in Latinos through religious and moral issues, Latinos in America consistently side with the Democratic Party. Two possible explanations based on social identity emerge as theories of Latino partisanship. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Intermediation and Representation in Latin America

    Actors and Roles Beyond Elections

    Edited by Gisela Zaremberg, Valeria Guarneros-Meza, Adrián Gurza Lavalle ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book shows how the introduction of intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative. Instead, ‘hybrid’ mechanisms are developing in the policy-making process, which bring in new actors who either are ... Read more

    $89.99 USD