The balancing of government budgets after years of chronic deficits has reopened public debates over tax levels, the size of government and proposals for tax reform.
Understanding how Congressional political parties utilize floor procedure to advance a legislative agenda is fundamental to understanding how Congress operates.
The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls.
Won the 2011 Prize for best publication on Conservatives and Conservatism awarded by the specialist group 'Conservatives and Conservatism' of the UK Political Studies Association.
This book bestows academic light in place of disputed ideological heat emanating primarily from Conservative political polemicists on the role, influence and ideological trajectory of the One Nation Group of Conservative MPs.
The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls.
A dedicated politician who has served as a congressman and state legislator defines the formidable challenge for progressives after the November 2016 election-and explains how to bring back leaders focused on working in the broad center of politics in order to get things done for the people.
This book tells the story of the rise of Margaret Thatcher in the context of crises assailing Britain in the 1970s and how her ascent to power ushered in the neoliberal era.
The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice takes a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of the processes, conditions, and activities that hold the potential to control corruption.
The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice takes a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of the processes, conditions, and activities that hold the potential to control corruption.
A surprising and revealing look inside the Tea Party movement-where it came from, what it stands for, and what it means for the future of American politicsThey burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession angry voters gathering by the thousands to rail against bailouts and big government.
After the 2004 election, the Republican Party held the White House, both houses of Congress, twenty-eight governorships, and a majority of state legislatures.
A Civil War Monitor best book of 2020A group biography of the activists who defended human rights and defined the Republican Party's greatest hourIn 1862, the ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison summarized the events that were tearing apart the United States: "e;There is a war because there was a Republican Party.
A powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democrats, from an award-winning reporter and native SouthernerIn 2000 and 2004, the Democratic Party decided not to challenge George W.
For the last century, many intellectuals and activists responsible for shaping the way we think about sex, crime, government, and even our very history have been fabricating the facts.
The first part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Loyalists and BritsThis work examines the Provos, from 1969, when the IRA was effectively dead and buried, to within a few short years, when it had resurrected to become the most feared and sophisticated terrorist organization in the world.
The second part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author Provos and BritsBased on a three-part BBC TV series, this is an inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
_______________ 'The author brings to this detailed study of the first six months of Margaret Thatcher's premiership invaluable political experience and a first-rate analytical mind' - Mail on Sunday _______________
A fascinating examination of the leadership of Britain's most controversial post-war Prime Minister from historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister in 1979, the first woman to hold the position, and the first woman in the Western world to lead a nation.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention.
