The 25 Issues that Shape American Politics, Kryzanek

Автор: McAndrews Lawrence J.
Название: The Presidents and the Poor: America Battles Poverty, 1964-2017
ISBN: 0700626735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626731
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: Provides a thorough study of the policies and politics of the presidents from Johnson to Barack Obama - what they did right and how they went wrong - in over half a century of fighting poverty. While all of these presidents have helped produce meaningful changes in the lives of America`s underclass, their setbacks have been at least as notable as their successes.

Автор: Dorsen Norman
Название: Embattled Constitution
ISBN: 0814770126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814770122
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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"An indispensable and provocative guide through the thicket of today's most challenging constitutional controversies by some of the most eminent judges of their time. It offers an invaluable peek behind the curtain of judicial decision making."

—David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University


The Embattled
Constitution presents the
fourth collection of the James Madison lectures delivered at the NYU School of
Law, offering thoughtful examinations of an array of topics on civil liberties
by a distinguished group of federal judges, including Justice Stephen Breyer of
the U.S. Supreme Court. The result is a fascinating look into the minds of the
judges who interpret, apply, and give meaning to our “embattled Constitution.”

In these insightful
and incisive essays, the authors bring to bear decades of experience to explore
wide-ranging issues. Are today’s public schools racially segregated? To what
extent can the federal courts apply the Bill of Rights without legislative
guidance? And what are the criteria for the highest standards of judging and constitutional
interpretation? The authors also discuss how and why the Constitution came to
be embattled, shining a spotlight on the current polarization in both the
Supreme Court and the American body politic and offering careful and informed
analysis of how to bridge these divides.

Contributors include
Marsha S. Berzon, Michael Boudin, Stephen Breyer, Guido Calabresi, Robert H.
Henry, Robert Katzmann, Pierre N. Leval, M. Blane Michael, Davis S. Tatel, J.
Harvie Wilkinson, III, and Diane P. Wood.

Автор: Schoenholtz Andrew Ian
Название: Lives in the Balance
ISBN: 0814708765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814708767
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period.
Day in and day out, asylum officers make decisions with life-or-death consequences: determining which applicants are telling the truth and are at risk of persecution in their home countries, and which are ineligible for refugee status in America. In Lives in the Balance, the authors analyze a database of 383,000 cases provided to them by the government in order to better understand the effect on grant rates of a host of factors unrelated to the merits of asylum claims, including the one-year filing deadline, whether applicants entered the United States with a visa, whether applicants had dependents, whether they were represented, how many asylum cases their adjudicator had previously decided, and whether or not their adjudicator was a lawyer. The authors also examine the degree to which decisions were consistent among the eight regional asylum offices and within each of those offices. The authors’ recommendations­, including repeal of the one-year deadline­, would improve the adjudication process by reducing the impact of non-merits factors on asylum decisions. If adopted by the government, these proposals would improve the accuracy of outcomes for those whose lives hang in the balance.

Автор: Kryzanek, Michael Karreth, Ann
Название: 25 issues that shape american politics
ISBN: 1138654752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138654754
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This book is organized to examine the major subjects taught in American politics through the lens of twenty-five hot button issues affecting American politics and policy today. These key issues reflect the ideas, principles, concerns, fears, morals, and hopes of the American people. The authors argue that these issues are the heart and soul of the American political system, serving as the basis for the disagreements that drive citizens, public servants, and elected officials into action.

Автор: Margolis Michele F.
Название: From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity
ISBN: 022655578X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226555782
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: One of the most distinctive aspects of our politics today is the sorting of religious and non-religious voters into different parties; Margolis shows that this is more an effect of partisan sorting than a cause.

Автор: Goodwin
Название: Black Markets
ISBN: 1107642752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107642751
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book contends that exclusive reliance on the present altruistic tissue and organ procurement processes in the US is not only rife with problems, but also improvident. The author explores how the altruistic approach leads to a `black market` of organs being harvested from Third World individuals.

Автор: McKillen Elizabeth
Название: Making the World Safe for Workers
ISBN: 0252037871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252037870
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Цена: 67320.00 T
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Описание: In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. McKillen's spotlight falls on the American Federation of Labor, whose leadership collaborated extensively with Wilson, assisting with propaganda, policy, and diplomacy. At the same time, other labor groups (and even sub-groups within the AFL) vehemently opposed Wilsonian internationalism. As McKillen shows, the choice to collaborate with or resist U.S. foreign policy remained an important one for labor throughout the twentieth century. In fact, it continues to resonate today in debates over the global economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of U.S. policies on workers at home and abroad.

Автор: Gritter Elizabeth
Название: River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
ISBN: 0813144507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813144504
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Gritter examines how and why black Memphians mobilized politically in the period between Reconstruction and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

Автор: Manzano Valeria
Название: The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Peron to Videla
ISBN: 1469611619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469611617
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This social and cultural history of Argentina's "long sixties" argues that the nation's younger generation was at the epicenter of a public struggle over democracy, authoritarianism, and revolution from the mid-twentieth century through the ruthless military dictatorship that seized power in 1976. Valeria Manzano demonstrates how, during this period, large numbers of youths built on their history of earlier activism and pushed forward closely linked agendas of sociocultural modernization and political radicalization.

Focusing also on the views of adults who assessed, and sometimes profited from, youth culture, Manzano analyzes countercultural formations--including rock music, sexuality, student life, and communal living experiences--and situates them in an international context. She details how, while Argentines of all ages yearned for newness and change, it was young people who championed the transformation of deep-seated traditions of social, cultural, and political life. The significance of youth was not lost on the leaders of the rising junta: people aged sixteen to thirty accounted for 70 percent of the estimated 20,000 Argentines who were "disappeared" during the regime.

Автор: Casavantes Bradford Anita
Название: The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
ISBN: 146961152X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469611525
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that ""the revolution is for the children."" Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of ""Castro-communism."" Anita Casavantes Bradford's analysis of the pivotal years between the Revolution's triumph and the 1962 Missile Crisis uncovers how and when children were first pressed into political service by ideologically opposed Cuban communities on both sides of the Florida Straits. Casavantes Bradford argues that, in Havana, the Castro government deployed a morally charged ""politics of childhood"" to steer a nationalist and reformist revolution toward socialism. At the same time, Miami exile leaders put children at the heart of efforts to mobilise opposition to Castro's regime and to link the well-being of Cuban refugees to U.S. Cold War foreign policy objectives. Casavantes Bradford concludes that the 1999 Elían González custody battle was the most notorious recent manifestation of the ongoing struggle to define and control Cuban childhood, revealing the persistent centrality of children to Cuban politics and national identity.