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Constitution of Knowledge
A Defense of Truth
Inbunden, 2021
304 kr
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Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on factsIn what could be the timeliest book of the year, Rauch aims to arm his readers to engage with reason in an age of illiberalism.NewsweekA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceDisinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media …
Politics and the Professors
The Great Society in Perspective
Häftad, 1978
284 kr
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In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus …
Framing the Social Security Debate
Values, Politics, and Economics
Av R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
375 kr
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In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of Social Security. This annual volume of the National Academy of Social Insurance provides a framework for that debate. Competing reform proposals …
Revolution at the Margins
The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems
Häftad, 2002
297 kr
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For more than a decade, school choice has been a flashpoint in debates about our nation's schooling. Perhaps the most commonly advanced argument for school choice is the notion that markets will force public schools to improve, particularly in those urban areas where improvement has proved so …
American Metropolitics
The New Suburban Reality
Häftad, 2002
461 kr
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In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, …
Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process
Av Steven S. Smith, Melanie J. Springer
Häftad, 2009
304 kr
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The 2008 U.S. presidential campaign has provided a lifetime's worth of surprises. Once again, however, the nomination process highlighted the importance of organization, political prowess, timing, and money. And once again, it raised many hackles. The Democratic contest in particular generated many …
From Schoolhouse to Courthouse
The Judiciary's Role in American Education
Av Joshua Dunn, Martin R. West
Häftad, 2009
448 kr
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From race to speech, from religion to school funding, from discipline to special education, few aspects of education policy have escaped the courtroom over the past fifty years. Predictably, much controversy has ensued. Supporters of education litigation contend that the courts are essential to …
Responsibility to Protect
Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All
Av Gareth Evans
Häftad, 2009
387 kr
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""Never again!"" the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciencesfrom the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues …
Advice and Dissent
The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Av Sarah A. Binder, Forrest Maltzman
Häftad, 2009
294 kr
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For better or worse, federal judges in the United States today are asked to resolve some of the nation's most important and contentious public policy issues. Although some hold onto the notion that federal judges are simply neutral arbiters of complex legal questions, the justices who serve on the …
Search for Al Qaeda
Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future
Av Bruce Riedel
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaedathe origins, leadership, ideology, and …
Digital Medicine
Health Care in the Internet Era
Av Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller
Häftad, 2010
329 kr
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Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of …
Shrewd Sanctions
Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism
Häftad, 2003
319 kr
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Policymakers will need all the tools at their disposal to craft an effective response to international terrorism and to protect and promote other U.S. interests in the coming decades. In this quest to shape the right strategies for the challenges ahead, economic instruments will play a central …
Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives
Adaption and Innovation in Special Rules
Av Stanley Bach, Steven S. Smith
Häftad, 1988
233 kr
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The ""postreform"" House of Representatives of the 1980's is strikingly different from the House of the 1970s. A most important change is the increasingly creative use of special rules, which structure floor debate on major legislation. The new trade of special rule craftsmanship now plays a …
Who Will Fight the Next War?
The Changing Face of the American Military
Häftad, 1993
277 kr
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The Persian Gulf conflict was the first major combat test for U.S. military forces since the nation ended conscription two decades ago. As hundreds of thousands of American troops were dispatched to the Middle East, the nation realized, seemingly for the first time, that the composition of its …
International Financial Intermediation
Av Ralph Bryant
Häftad, 1987
300 kr
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This book explains what the internationalization of banking and finance means, and examines its extent and the reasons it has developed. The advantages and disadvantages of the new situation-and what is yet to come-are neatly sketched, along with the policy problems for national governments and …
Difficult Transitions
Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power
Av Kurt M. Campbell, James B. Steinberg
Inbunden, 2008
361 kr
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New presidents have no honeymoon when it comes to foreign policy. Less than three months into his presidency, for example, John F. Kennedy authorized the disastrous effort to overthrow Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs. More recently, George W. Bush had been in office for less than eight months when …
War of Visions
Conflict of Identities in the Sudan
Häftad, 1995
387 kr
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The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and …
United We Serve
National Service and the Future of Citizenship
Av E. J. Dionne, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
319 kr
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Public rhetoric in the United States has always laid heavy stress on the obligations of citizenship. Bill Clinton praised the idea of service, and so does George W. Bush. Since September 11, the debate over service and the obligations of citizenship has become even more urgent. United We Serve …
What's God Got to Do with the American Experiment?
Av E. J. Dionne, John J. DiIulio
Häftad, 2000
290 kr
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More than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two. This collection of essays explores the unsettledand often unsettlingquestion of organized …
Neighborhoods and Urban Development
Häftad, 1981
290 kr
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American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this fermentthe decline of one area, the …
Metropolitan Revolution
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Av Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley
Inbunden, 2013
462 kr
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Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the …
Journey into America
The Challenge of Islam
Av Akbar Ahmed
Häftad, 2011
375 kr
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Nearly seven million Muslims live in the United States today, and their relations with non-Muslims are strained. Many Americans associate Islam with figures such as Osama bin Laden, and they worry about “homegrown terrorists.” To shed light on this increasingly important religious group and counter …
Deadly Embrace
Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
Av Bruce Riedel
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing to …
Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
Av Paul Manna, Patrick McGuinn
Häftad, 2013
425 kr
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America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in …
Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978-2012
Av Stephen Hess
Häftad, 2013
304 kr
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Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978–2012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S. commercial news organizations. His …
Exceptions to the Rule
The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate
Häftad, 2017
375 kr
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Special rules enable the Senate to act despite the filibuster. Sometimes.Most people believe that, in today's partisan environment, the filibuster prevents the Senate from acting on all but the least controversial matters. But this is not exactly correct. In fact, the Senate since the 1970s has …
Making College Work
Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students
Av Harry J. Holzer, Sandy Baum
Häftad, 2017
366 kr
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Practical solutions for improving higher education opportunities for disadvantaged studentsToo many disadvantaged college students in America do not complete their coursework or receive any college credential, while others earn degrees or certificates with little labor market value. Large numbers …
Eagle and the Trident
U.S.—Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times
Av Steven Pifer
Inbunden, 2017
388 kr
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An insider's account of the complex relations between the United States and post-Soviet UkraineThe Eagle and the Trident provides the first comprehensive account of the development of U.S. diplomatic relations with an independent Ukraine, covering the years 1992 through 2004 following the collapse …
Beyond Snowden
Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Inbunden, 2017
268 kr
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica’s mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration’s own reforms have also helped bring the …
Professor and the President
Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House
Av Stephen Hess
Häftad, 2017
240 kr
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What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy …
