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Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian PaternalismThe bestselling author of Simpler offers a powerful, provocative, and convincing argument for protecting people from their own mistakes Based on a series of pathbreaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines...
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1940: Fdr, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--The Election Amid the StormThe spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the world In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency--Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running...
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A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country PerspectiveAmerican democracy differs greatly from other democracies around the world. But is the American way more or less efficacious than comparable democracies in Asia, Latin America, or Europe? What if the United States had a prime minister instead of (or in addition to) a...
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Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African FrontierToward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa...
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Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses...
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Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six CountriesIn this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important--and unexpected--conclusions about what type of...
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Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign PolicyA provocative new view of the history of U.S. foreign policy, how it reflects our national identity, and why it so regularly involves the use of military force In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy,Author: Walter L. HixsonPublisher: Yale University...
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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United StatesThe first book to untangle the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States In this era of superheated rhetoric and vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel, the threat of nuclear violence looms. But the real roots...
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Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the WorldA ground-level account of China's new diplomacy and how it could change international relations At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China's riAuthor: Joshua KurlantzickPublisher: Yale University PressPublished:...
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Anti-Enlightenment TraditionIn this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth...
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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction"This is one of the most important books about constitutional interpretation of its generation."--Jeffrey Rosen, American Lawyer Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and...
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Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (Revised)Under the banners of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, the Supreme Court has constitutionalized a vast amount of criminal procedure law in ways that often reward the guilty while hurting the innocent. In this sweeping and provocative book, a distinguished constitutional scholar critiques...
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Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process (Revised)In modern industrial democracies, the making of public policy is dependent on policy analysis--the generation, discussion, and evaluation of policy alternatives. Policy analysis is often characterized, especially by economists, as a technical, nonpartisan, objective enterprise, separate from the constraints of the political environment. however,...
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The Practical NegotiatorAdvice and analysis of the negotiating experience in international affairs and politics. "A compact but powerful guide to the essentials of diplomacy."--Library JournalAuthor: I. William Zartman, Maureen BurmanPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 01/01/1982Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.19h x 5.51w x 0.84dISBN: 9780300030976This title is...
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Tommy: My Journey of a LifetimeThe many facets of Tommy G. Thompson--small-town grocer's son, brash campaigner with a common touch, shrewd political strategist, savvy policy wonk, and ebullient promoter of Wisconsin--come across vividly in these pages. Thompson, with journalist Doug Moe, traces his journey from boyhood to politics to...
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American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth AmendmentTo defend its citizens from harm, must the government have unfettered access to all information? Or, must personal privacy be defended at all costs from the encroachment of a surveillance state? And, doesn't the Constitution already protect us from such intrusions? When the topic...
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From War to Genocide: Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990-1994In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factions. The ensuing killings resulted in the deaths of as much as 20 percent of Rwanda's population. André Guichaoua, who was...
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Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on TerrorCan a U.S. president decide to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without charges or secretly monitor telephone conversations and e-mails without a warrant in the interest of national security? Was the George W. Bush administration justified in authorizing waterboarding? Was President Obama justified in ordering...
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Policing Americaas Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance StateAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today's war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America's first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the...
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Sinn Féin: A Hundred Turbulent YearsA devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied and bored, he escaped into the glossy pages of National...
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