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  • Professor Berman

    The Last Lecture of Minnesota's Greatest Public Historian

    Behind the scenes of Minnesota history, by way of the engaging life story of the state’s best-known and beloved political observerProfessor Hy Berman (1925–2015) was, by most accounts, the face of public history in Minnesota for many decades—a peerless political observer and labor historian, popular lecturer and university professor, and familiar presence on the Twin Cities PBS show Almanac, ... Leer más

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  • This Is Not Florida

    How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount

    de Jay Weiner ...
    On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's ensuing recount, and the contentious legal and public relations battle that would play out between ... Leer más

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  • The Maximalist

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  • Veto Players

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    Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Leer más

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  • Insurrection vs. Organization

    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.Fortunately, most anarchists in the US avoid any ideological orthodoxy and shun sectarian divides. Unfortunately, most of us also seem to avoid serious strategizing. Those who do take this on tend more towards one or another orthodoxy, and reading the pages of the country’s anarchist journals an outsider would get the impression that the ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Federation

    Options to renew Australia’s 1901 Constitution

    Edición de Klaas Woldring ...
    Australia has been a federation for more than a hundred years, and an independent country for more than seventy. But its system of government is still based on political compromises thrashed out in the late nineteenth century. In particular, the division of power between national and state governments is dysfunctional, irrelevant to the twenty-first century, and it costs us many billions of ... Leer más

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  • Compassionate Conservatism

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    Series series The Politics Of Race And Ethnicity
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  • International Development Organizations and Fragile States

    Law and Disorder

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