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  • The Gee Years, 2007–2013

    de Herbert B. Asher ...
    The Gee Years, 2007–2013 chronicles E. Gordon Gee’s second tenure as president of The Ohio State University and the fourteenth in the university’s history. With previous posts at Vanderbilt, Brown, Colorado, West Virginia, and a previous term at Ohio State, Gee is the longest continually serving college president in the country. His second tenure with Ohio State boasted overall fundraising at ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena

    de Herbert B. Asher, Eric S. Heberlig, Randall B. Ripley, Karen Snyder ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    Are contemporary U.S. labor unions irrelevant, or in fact a changing force to be reckoned with as they grow into a new economy in a globalized America? Is the current political power exercised by U.S. labor unions more akin to the social movements of the sixties or the interest politics of the nineties? After winning the presidency of the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney and his colleagues have taken ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Winner-Take-All Politics

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    de Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • So Rich, So Poor

    Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America

    de Peter Edelman ...
    "A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field." — Kirkus ReviewsIncome disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top.In this ... Leer más

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  • "They're Bankrupting Us!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Unions

    de Bill Fletcher, Jr. ...
    Series Libro 2 - Myths Made in America
    From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In "They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions, labor leader ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Democracy in America?

    What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

    de Benjamin I. Page, Martin Gilens ...
    "Important and riveting . . . The solution isn't to redistribute wealth from the have-mores to the have-lesses. It's to redistribute political power to everyone." —Robert B. ReichAmerica faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran ... Leer más

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  • The Limits of Party

    Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

    de James M. Curry, Frances E. Lee ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hell to Pay

    How the Suppression of Wages Is Destroying America

    de Michael Lind ...
    From one of America’s leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America’s decline—and a searing indictment of those who caused itFor nearly half a century, Americans have been bombarded by neoliberal propaganda promoting the lie that wages are objectively determined by impersonal labor markets. This falsehood has been repeated by academics, journalists, business leaders, and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Development Dance

    How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

    de Haley J. Swedlund ...
    In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Politics and Public Policy

    Strategic Actors and Policy Domains

    de Donald C. Baumer, Carl E. Van Horn ...
    Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States—one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress, and explores the influence of corporate leaders, interest groups, bureaucrats, judges, and ... Leer más

    $87.29 USD

  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    de J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reasons of State

    Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government

    de G. John Ikenberry ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid ... Leer más

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