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  • The Gentleman from Illinois

    Stories from Forty Years of Elective Public Service

    by Alan J Dixon ...
    Series series Illinois Lives
    In 1993, Alan J. Dixon’s political career came to an end with a defeat—the first one in his forty-three years of elected service. Beginning his legislative career in 1950 as a Democrat in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dixon also served in the Illinois State Senate, worked as state treasurer and secretary of state, and concluded his political career as a U.S. senator. The Gentleman from ... Read more

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    The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

    This Fight Is Our Fight: Elizabeth Warren's Passionate Call to Save America's Middle ClassIn This Fight Is Our Fight, #1 New York Times bestselling author and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren offers a candid, inspiring look at why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the battle to save it. Drawing on her own experiences growing up in Oklahoma at the ragged edge of the middle class, ... Read more

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  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

    Is It Open Season On Killing and Mistreating Blacks In America?

    Each day that is blessed to us, some black man, woman or child has been killed or mistreated by police or from another black person. Black people in America should have always organized against injustices from police and other misguided blacks who are a threat to their survival. I cannot understand that after hundreds of years and comprehensive progress in civil and human rights, that black people ... Read more

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  • The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures

    The Effects of Institutions and Politics

    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Campaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behavior. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in others. Using a national survey of legislators, she develops an innovative measure of influence and delineates the factors ... Read more

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  • Telepathic Warfare, Cathedral Atheists & Freemason Recruits: American Worldview #14

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  • Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy

    Edited by Christopher P. Banks ...
    Series series Controversies in American Constitutional Law
    This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional jurisprudence. The contributors address the impact ... Read more

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  • Legislating Without Experience

    Case Studies in State Legislative Term Limits

    Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends that are often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits, ... Read more

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  • Implementing Term Limits

    The Case of the Michigan Legislature

    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group U.S. Term Limits promotes this reform at all levels of government. But are advocates correct that term limits ensure citizens dedicated to the common good—rather than self-serving career politicians—run government? Or does the enforced high rate of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Irish Government Today

    by John O'Toole ...
    A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this acclaimed text that reflects the extensive changes in the Irish system of government, including strategic management, parliamentary procedures and the management of EU business. An essential book for understanding the workings of Irish Government, it discusses freedom of information and new developments in information technology and reflects the ... Read more

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  • CONTROVERSAL PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

    DUTERTE "IF I WERE PRESIDENT'...."

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  • The 2008 Election in Florida

    Change! But Only at the Top of the Ticket

    Series series Patterns and Trends in Florida Elections
    During 2008, the Democrats achieved in Florida a goal that had eluded them in all but three of the national elections since 1964: victory in the presidential race. Despite this success, the Republicans retained their dominance in the U.S. Congress and in the Florida State Legislature. The 2008 Elections in Florida utilizes multiple types of data to provide an explanation for the disparate outcomes ... Read more

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