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Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618457014
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Keeping Republic Brief Plus American Government Reader written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618460120
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Download or read book Keeping the Republic Brief Plus Barbour Keeping the Republic Study Guide Brief Plus Korey California Government 3rd Edition written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618457564
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic Brief Plus Study Guide Brief Plus Barbour American Givernment Reader written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618473786
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Book Rating : 4.4/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Keeping Republic Brief Plus Study Guide Brief written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Barbour
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1506362168
Total Pages : 1880 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic written by Christine Barbour and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 1880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshed and dynamic Eighth Edition of Keeping the Republic revitalizes the twin themes of power and citizenship by adding to the imperative for students to navigate competing political narratives about who should get what, and how they should get it. The exploding possibilities of the digital age make this task all the more urgent and complex. Christine Barbour and Gerald Wright, the authors of this bestseller, continue to meet students where they are in order to give them a sophisticated understanding of American politics and teach them the skills to think critically about it. The entire book has been refocused to look not just at power and citizenship but at the role that control of information and its savvy consumption play in keeping the republic.
Author : Barbour
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 9780618116270
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic Study Guide Brief written by Barbour and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618347377
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic Brief and Study Guide and Terrorism Reader written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. Jr Hardgrave
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (783 download)
Download or read book American Government; the Republic in Action written by Robert L. Jr Hardgrave and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618294015
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic Brief with Map and Study Guide, with Terrorism Reader and Internet Guide written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618336173
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic Brief and Terrorism Reader written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Principles of the American Republic written by Daniel Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbour
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ISBN 13 : 9780618353521
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Download or read book Keeping the Republic Brief and Miroff Reader, Fourth Edition and Terrorism Reader written by Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875803265
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic written by Robert W. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Keeping the Republic, Robert W. Smith identifies three contending brands of republicanism - classical, whig, and yeoman - that shaped the founders' thinking. Jefferson and Madison pursued a yeoman republicanism with its faith in economic sanctions rather than military might as a means of diplomacy. Nations dependent upon American agricultural exports, they thought, would bow to American interests. Both Adams and Hamilton, originally admirers of classical republicanism and its belief in public virtue, came to adopt a whig republicanism that applied the balance-of-power principle, exemplified by the three branches of the federal government, to the international community. In this view, nations should have equal naval power.
Author : Martha Derthick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081579844X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Compound Republic written by Martha Derthick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The framers of the U. S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national and local authority. They located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the "compound republic." The term conveys the complicated and ambiguous intent of the framing generation and helps to make comprehensible what otherwise is bewildering to the modern citizenry: a form of government that divides and disperses official power between majorities of two different kinds—one composed of individual voters, and the other, of the distinct political societies we call states. America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick, a leading scholar of American government. She explores the nature of the compound republic, with attention both to its enduring features and to the changes wrought in the twentieth century by Progressivism, the New Deal, and the civil rights revolution. Interest in federalism is likely to increase in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. There are demands for reform of the electoral college, given heightened awareness that it does not strictly reflect the popular vote. The U. S. Supreme Court, under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, has mounted an explicit and controversial defense of federalism, and new nominees to the Court are likely to be questioned on that subject and appraised in part by their responses. Derthick's essays invite readers to join the Court in weighing the contemporary importance of federalism as an institution of government.
Author : Mitch Daniels
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1595230963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Republic written by Mitch Daniels and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore it to greatness. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called "the most presidential man in America." He has brought more change to his state in a few years than most see in decades. During his tenure, Daniels turned a $700 million deficit into a billion dollar surplus, balanced Indiana's budget even during the recession, converted its once unattractive business climate into one of the strongest for private sector job growth. The Hoosier state is now a model of good and efficient governance. Its public sector payroll is now the smallest per capita in the nation. And yet services have improved across the board. Even its Bureau of Motor Vehicles -- the ultimate symbol of dysfunctional bureaucracy - has been rated the best in the country. Daniels has done this by focusing on government's core responsibilities, cutting taxes, empowering citizens, and performing what he calls an "old tribal ritual" - spending less money than his state takes in, while distinguishing between skepticism towards big government and hostility towards all government. Unfortunately few politicians have the discipline or courage to follow his lead. And worse, many assume that Americans are too intimidated, gullible or dim-witted to make wise decisions about their health care, mortgages, the education of their kids, and other important issues. The result has been a steady decline in freedom, as elite government experts -- "our benevolent betters", in Daniels' phrase -- try to regulate every aspect of our lives. Daniels bluntly calls our exploding national debt "a survival-level threat to the America we have known." He shows how our underperforming public schools have produced a workforce unprepared to compete with those of other countries and ignorant of the requirements of citizenship in a free society. He lays out the risk of greatly diminished long term prosperity and the loss of our position of world leadership. He warns that we may lose the uniquely American promise of upward mobility for all. But, the good news is that it's not too late to save America. However, real change can't be imposed from above. It has to be what he calls "change that believes in you" -- a belief that Americans, properly informed of the facts, will pull together to make the necessary changes and that they are best- equipped to make the decisions governing their own lives. As he puts it: "I urge great care not to drift into a loss of faith in the American people. We must never yield to the self-fulfilling despair that these problems are immutable, or insurmountable. Americans are still a people born to liberty. Addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."
Author : Ann M. Blair
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168497
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Too Much to Know written by Ann M. Blair and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.
Author : Thomas E. Mann
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096735
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book It's Even Worse Than It Looks written by Thomas E. Mann and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime.In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress -- and the United States -- to the brink of institutional collapse. The first is the serious mismatch between our political parties, which have become as vehemently adversarial as parliamentary parties, and a governing system that, unlike a parliamentary democracy, makes it extremely difficult for majorities to act. Second, while both parties participate in tribal warfare, both sides are not equally culpable. The political system faces what the authors call &"asymmetric polarization," with the Republican Party implacably refusing to allow anything that might help the Democrats politically, no matter the cost.With dysfunction rooted in long-term political trends, a coarsened political culture and a new partisan media, the authors conclude that there is no &"silver bullet"; reform that can solve everything. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring of the House and Senate, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle. Until voters learn to act strategically to reward problem solving and punish obstruction, American democracy will remain in serious danger.
