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Should 'hate speech' be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person's race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference This title addresses a general audience of readers interested in the most current free speech issues.

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Explains how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the 19th and early 20th century, when it lacked essential formal rules for governing debate. This book argues that in a system where filibusters played out as wars of attrition, the threat of rule changes prevented the institution from devolving into parliamentary chaos.

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This provocative and accessible narrative recounts the inside story of how a broad-based people's campaign was mobilized and subsequently succeeded in pushing Congress to create a consumer financial regulator with clout.

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Since the 1960 national election, the nonpartisan Citizens Research Foundation (CRF) has published a series of Financing the Election volumes, compiling reliable data on the costs and trends of campaign finance.

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In the wake of recent legislation, court challenges, and demands for reform, campaign finance remains one of the most important and controversial aspects of the world's oldest democracy.

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The 2008 elections were by any standard historic. The nation elected its first African American president, and the Republicans nominated their first female candidate for vice president.

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The amount of money flowing through US politics continues to astound. "While not all expenditures are reported," writes David Magleby, "our best estimate is that at least number 8 billion was spent in the 2012 federal elections." This book examines the important changes and legal challenges to the law and regulation of campaign finance.

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Beginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level. Now, the latest in this respected series, Financing the 2016 Election, explores the role of money in one of the most unconventional elections in modern American history.

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"[A] revealing account of the massaging of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq."-The Spectator (UK)

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Dissects today's debate over civic virtue as a remedy to America's social and political ills.

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An account of the Venerable Palden Gyatso's 33 years as a political prisoner in a Chinese prison in Tibet.

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The life and amazing times of an American dissident who has spent his whole life fighting first amendment abuses while being tailed by the FBI

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This first comprehensive appraisal of interest groups in Western democracies in thirty years a systematic comparison of interest group activities and their impact on public policymaking in twelve post-industrial First World nations.

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Will new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy The answer depends on the role of five rising democracies: India, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, and Indonesia. Ted Piccone analyses the transitions of these five democracies as their stars rise on the international stage.

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Offers analysis into political, economic and business mistakes and solutions within fragile states. This title argues that to avoid revisiting the carnage and catastrophes seen in places like Iraq, Bosnia, and the Congo, the West needs to rethink its ideas on fragile states and start helping their peoples build governments that fit the landscape.

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Despite past management problems, the author argues that America's intelligence system is reasonably well prepared to deal with the many threats to national security. He offers a range of ideas for making the system work better and for attracting new kinds of intelligence professionals.

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Despite past management problems, the author argues that America's intelligence system is reasonably well prepared to deal with the many threats to national security. He offers a range of ideas for making the system work better and for attracting new kinds of intelligence professionals.

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Populism is a genuine 'third way' in politics, a middle path between the extremes of corporate anarchy and collective authoritarianism. Fixing the System is a trenchant and timely study of Populism.

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Populism is a genuine 'third way' in politics, a middle path between the extremes of corporate anarchy and collective authoritarianism. Fixing the System is a trenchant and timely study of Populism.