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“sidney waldman”

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  • America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness

    by Sidney Waldman ...
    America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compassion, and religious beliefs on the American political system. The influence of public opinion on our democratically elected leaders affects whether our country will be able to find solutions to some ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government and Politics

    by Franco Scardino ...
    The governed must know their governmentUnderstanding how our government functions and the political forces that influence it is vital for all Americans. As a comprehensive overview and history of the subject, this book is designed to help anyone interested in learning about our government and the origins of its complex inner workings, our political system, and key elements that have affected our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • U.S. Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

    by Franco Scardino ...
    Series series Idiot's Guides
    Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help readers gain an understanding about the origins of the U.S government, in addition to its complex political system ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Democratic Imagination

    Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily lives, pitting "official democracy" and "democracy from below" against one another in a lively ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Running from Office

    Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics

    by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox ...
    The past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today's teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government have the ability to do good or effect positive change. Worse, the mean-spirited, dysfunctional political system ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Information Technology and Political Islam

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Social Networks and the Jewish Migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924–1928

    by Magdalena M. Wrobel Bloom ...
    Series Book 8 - Studies in Jewish History and Memory
    This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed to the migration experience. Presenting these stories through correspondence, she shows how migrants ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • White Backlash

    Immigration, Race, and American Politics

    by Marisa A. Abrajano, Zoltan Hajnal ...
    White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Citizen now

    Engaging in politics and democracy

    by Elizabeth C. Matto ...
    Citizen now offers a comprehensive description of the composition and behavior of young adults, an explanation and critique of the study of youth engagement, and a unique approach and methodology for appreciating how and why “citizen now” engages in politics and democracy. Citizen now considers youth political participation from the perspective of young adults themselves – specifically, young ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • Blogging the Political

    Politics and Participation in a Networked Society

    by Antoinette Pole ...
    The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium’s ubiquity, the impact of political blogging on politics and civic engagemment has not been systematically examined. In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access to the media by common citizens is limited, blogs have the power to change the political landscape ... Read more

    $65.99 USD