Political Science : Practical Politics

Beyond Westminster and Whitehall provides the first comprehensive account of the range of sub-central government institutions that are responsible for the delivery of services to citizens. These bodies are the warp and weft of the British system of government and yet are all too frequently ignored. For a full understanding of British government, the study of sub-central government is of equivalent importance to that of the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and Parliament. more...

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With the Bush administration now in its final years, all eyes are turning to the 2008 political season -- especially those of Democratic voters, who are casting about for a galvanizing leader to help them win back the White House. In an atmosphere where conservative Hillary-bashing is still as virulent as ever, Estrich demonstrates all the reasons that this principled leader still blows away any other potential contender in the early polls for 2008. And, with arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed, America and the world would be changed forever and for the better. more...

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Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects , published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s work; and Letter to the Abbé Raynal, Paine’s first examination of world events; as well as selections from The American Crises In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. more...

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Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author is more qualified to explain its power and promise than Marvin Olasky, described by The New York Times as 'the godfather of compassionate conservatism'. more...

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That claim elicited howls of derision from those, like presidential candidate Howard Dean, who opposed the Iraq War. Even those Democrats who supported the war warned that it could distract from the proper focus of the War on Terror: al Qaeda. These arguments, certain to be at the center of the national security debates leading up to the 2004 presidential election, share one assumption: Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden did not- and would never- work together. Welcome to the new conventional wisdom. But that conventional wisdom is wrong. Drawing on top-secret intelligence documents and interviews with high-ranking Bush and Clinton Administration officials, “The Connection” will dispute the all-too-comfortable notion that these two terror masters waged separate wars against America. It will also examine why politicians, journalists, and intelligence experts, in the face of mounting evidence of a Saddam-bin Laden collaboration, have shown themselves to be dangerously incurious. more...

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