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“amanda sussman”

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  • The Art of the Possible

    A Handbook for Political Activism

    by Amanda Sussman ...
    A political insider tells us how we can make a difference. A must-read for fans of The Rebel Sell and Naomi Klein’s No Logo.What difference can one person make? If I’m not a famous actor, rock star, or multi-millionaire philanthropist, what do I really have to offer?The notion that the government is open only to a few is a myth. In fact, our political system is incredibly accessible, but the ... Read more

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  • Game Change

    Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

    by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin ...
    The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country."It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." — The Financial Times"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the ... Read more

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  • Eyewitness To Power

    The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

    by David Gergen ...
    Series series A Political History and Leadership Bestseller
    From Nixon to Clinton, Watergate to Whitewater, few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and Democrat, he offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and draws from them key lessons for leaders of the future.Gergen ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • 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

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Spirit of Compromise

    Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson ...
    Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayTo govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is so ... Read more

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  • Degrees of Inequality

    How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

    by Suzanne Mettler ...
    America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Congressional Representation & Constituents

    The Case for Increasing the U.S. House of Representatives

    by Brian Frederick ...
    Series series Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation
    The U.S. House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 members for almost a century, and in that time the nation’s population has grown by more than 200 percent. With the number of citizens represented by each House member now dramatically larger, is a major consequence of this historical disparity a diminished quality of representation?Brian Frederick uses empirical data to scrutinize whether ... Read more

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  • Ghana: an Incomplete Independence or a Dysfunctional Democracy?

    by Kwame Insaidoo ...
    Can anybody tell us why profound poverty continues to plague our nation of barely 25 million people in this modern era of globalization in 2012? Why do you think the vast majority of our beloved people live on less than a dollar a day and struggle from cradle to grave living in near squalor, and eking out near subsistence existence? Ask yourself why is it that in the midst of this profound abject ... Read more

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton ...
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Read more

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  • Presidential Campaigns in Latin America

    Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion

    by Taylor C. Boas ...
    How do presidential candidates in new democracies choose their campaign strategies, and what strategies do they adopt? In contrast to the claim that campaigns around the world are becoming more similar to one another, Taylor Boas argues that new democracies are likely to develop nationally specific approaches to electioneering through a process called success contagion. The theory of success ... Read more

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  • Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System

    by Erik J. Engstrom, Samuel Kernell ...
    This book explores the fascinating and puzzling world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American elections. It examines the strategic behavior of nineteenth-century party politicians and shows how their search for electoral victory led them to invent a number of remarkable campaign practices. Why were parties dedicated to massive voter mobilization? Why did presidential nominees wage ... Read more

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  • Opting Out of Congress

    Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates

    by Danielle M. Thomsen ...
    This book provides a candidate entry explanation for partisan polarization in Congress. Danielle M. Thomsen draws on quantitative data to show that ideological moderates are less likely to run for and remain in Congress than those at the extremes. The book introduces a party fit argument for why moderates have opted out of congressional politics. It suggests that the personal and professional ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD