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In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor...
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Why do some nonviolent revolutions lead to successful democratization, while others fail to consolidate democratic change? And, what can activists do to push toward a victory over dictatorship that results in long-term political freedom? When Civil Resistance Succeeds: Building Democracy After Popular Nonviolent Uprisings (ICNC Press, 2018) by Jonathan Pinckney explores these questions, offering takeaways for a variety of readers interested in supporting...
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Why don't young people vote? It's a question, that has been asked by pollsters for years. The 18- to 24-year-old demographic records the lowest voter turnout at elections and it doesn't look to be showing signs of stopping. Being one of this demographic, Mitchell Agg looks into this question and tries to shed light on why his peers don't enter polling stations on election day. Through four main reasons, Mitchell helps us answer this question as well...
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Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job insecurity for millions of workers, debts as far as the eye can see, and a dangerous quest for global domination. Democracy itself has been undermined and the Constitution weakened. This regime must be overturned! And, as Charles Derber demonstrates in his...
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Antonia Maioni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University.
As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability...
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Originally published in 1896, "Robert's Rules of Order," remains to this day the manual of choice when it comes to conducting orderly productive proceedings. As General Henry M. Robert describes in his preface to the work, "The object of Rules of Order is to assist an assembly to accomplish in the best possible manner the work for which it was designed. To do this it is necessary to restrain the individual somewhat, as the right of an individual,...
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Con motivo del 50º aniversario del comienzo del gobierno del presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva —el primer democratacristiano que llegó a La Moneda—, quien encabezó una administración que realizó profundas transformaciones, los editores de este libro convocaron a un seminario para dialogar sobre cómo se diseñaron y aplicaron esas políticas. Titulado "El gobierno de Eduardo Frei Montalva. A 50 años de su elección presidencial", el que se...
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La noche del 26 al 27 de septiembre de 2014 ocurrió un hecho crucial en la historia reciente de México, con la desaparición forzada de 43 estudiantes de la Escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa, en el estado de Guerrero, y el asesinato de seis personas más, tres de ellas estudiantes.
El 2 de marzo de 2015 empezó su trabajo el Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independiente (GIEI) designado por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH)...
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In 2008, the financial crisis caused many workers to lose their jobs. Middle-Class Jobs is a book that was written to try to focus on policies that could be created and passed to create middle-class jobs as well as solve many problems our country needs to address. The book is designed to be a basic reference guide in determining what types of policies could benefit communities by providing middle-class jobs.
Instead of chapters 1 and 2, the sections...
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'So You Want to Run for Public Office' is a complete guide on how to become a successful candidate for public office. Learn how to define an election, raise money, conduct a survey, budget a campaign, devise and execute an advertising strategy, make the most of free media, and monitor the pressure points of a political campaign to keep it on track. This book includes real life examples of successes and failures, and valuable instruction on how to...
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Since Israel began its construction in 2002, the Wall has sparked intense debate, being condemned as illegal by the International Court of Justice.
Israel claims it is a security measure to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks. Opponents point to the serious impact on the rights of Palestinians, depriving them of their land, mobility and access to health and educational services.
This book explores the Palestinian experience...
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La tesis sobre la que se desarrollan los argumentos desplegados a lo largo de este texto es que la expansión del campo cultural llevada a cabo por la revolución bolivariana para ampliar el número de beneficiarios de la acción del Estado petrolero −es decir, el movimiento que lucha contra los efectos de una modernización excluyente desde arriba, con sus propias formas y experimentos de modernización desde abajo− no se traduce en un verdadero...
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Fighting Corporate Abuse demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses in the corporate sector that have been revealed in recent years. It highlights the more general contribution of company law and practice to the current crisis in capitalism.
The first section develops a controversial argument, using detailed illustrations and vivid examples which show how the various...
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Hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide, Power Trip is the explosive memoir of one of Westminster's most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. Known by friend and foe as 'Mad Dog'...
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After WWII, the world entered a phase of extreme dynamics. The USA outpaced all other countries. More than 50 years later, it no longer has the radical esprit that brought about its hegemony. Still, America of the information revolution remains the world's only superpower. But as the necessity of change, expressed in a variety of systemic crises, accelerated, the USA fell into patterns of reactive politics similar to those that led to the downfall...
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The largest war the world had ever seen, World War I caused thousands to lose their belief in God and their hope for the future. Yet LDS servicemen on the front lines kept the faith, despite numerous physical and spiritual dangers. Though these soldiers suffered hardships, these stories show how they‚ like the Army of Helaman‚ were miraculously preserved and protected according to the Lord's promises.
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Leadership in America, both in government and business, has been corroded by elitist politicians, unpatriotic Wall Street executives, and a vapid entertainment industry – all of whom have altered the cultural landscape of our country for the worse. Noble public-service ideals, servant-leadership, and Judeo-Christian values that had served as the bedrock of American culture are now regarded at best as irrelevant, and at worst, fodder to ridicule....
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Something nasty is happening in America. Have you noticed the trend? There's more bullying, more incivility, more disrespect and even more relationship violence between us at home, at work, in our communities and in the news. And, it seems to be increasing rather than decreasing. We have noticed a pattern to this behavior that is all too familiar: Personal Attacks, Crisis Emotions, All-or-Nothing Solutions, Narcissistic Behavior and Negative Advocates....
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Esta obra recopila las experiencias pedagógicas, a partir de su trabajo de investigación, de un grupo de profesores de las Facultades de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Rosario. Con el fi n de dar visibilidad a la laboral investigativa y pedagógica de los profesores de estas facultades. El texto presenta los diferentes métodos y técnicas en que cada uno de los investigadores realiza sus ejercicios académicos...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I imagined a nightmare scenario where early one morning, my phone would buzz me awake and I would fumble for it in the dark. A staffer on the other end would inform me that there had been a horrible massacre at a Jewish site somewhere in Europe.
#2 The shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. It...
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