A Citizens Guide To American Ideology

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593667
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology written by Morgan Marietta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition. To help us get past these stereotypes, this short, punchy book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing a thorough and fair analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches. To help us understand the differences between the two contrasting ideologies, Morgan Marietta employs an innovative metaphor of a tree—growth from ideological roots to a core value, expanding into a problem that creates the competing branches of the ideology. This approach suggests a clear way to explain and compare the two ideologies in an effort to enhance democratic debate. A Citizen’s Guide to American Political Ideologies is a brief, non-technical and conversational overview of one of the most important means of understanding political rhetoric and policy debates in America today.

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135015309
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court written by Morgan Marietta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Constitution is a blueprint for a free society as well as a source of enduring conflict over how that society must be governed. The competing ways of reading our founding document shape the decisions of the Supreme Court, which acts as the final voice on constitutional questions. This breezy, concise guide explains the central conflicts that frame our constitutional controversies, written in clear non-academic language to serve as a resource for engaged citizens, both inside and outside of an academic setting. After covering the main points of conflict in constitutional law, Marietta gives readers an overview of the perspectives from the leading schools of constititional interpretation--textualism, common law constitutionalism, originalism, and living constitutionalism. He then walks through the points of conflict and competing schools of thought in the context of several landmark cases and ends with advice to readers on how to interpret constitutional issues ourselves.

Author : Barry Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315291797
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to Politics in America written by Barry Rubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an antidote for civic apathy and disillusionment. It takes the reader step-by-step through the process of successful action for change -- from the germ of an idea to finding allies, getting the word out, and building the critical mass of people, energy, and support to accomplish the desired result. Filled with abundant practical examples and guidelines for success, the book covers all the bases: how to recognize that it's time for action; how to lobby decision makers; how to go to court; how to use information; how to use the internet effectively; how to get media attention; how to influence public opinion; how to mobilize grassroots support; how to form coalitions; how to organize an initiative or referendum; and more.

Author : Barry R. Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780765606273
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to Politics in America written by Barry R. Rubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as an antidote for civic apathy and disillusionment, this guide takes the reader through the process of successful political action for change - from the germ of an idea to finding allies, getting the word out and building support to effect the desired result.

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593659
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to American Ideology written by Morgan Marietta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition. To help us get past these stereotypes, this short, punchy book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing a thorough and fair analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches. To help us understand the differences between the two contrasting ideologies, Morgan Marietta employs an innovative metaphor of a tree—growth from ideological roots to a core value, expanding into a problem that creates the competing branches of the ideology. This approach suggests a clear way to explain and compare the two ideologies in an effort to enhance democratic debate. A Citizen’s Guide to American Political Ideologies is a brief, non-technical and conversational overview of one of the most important means of understanding political rhetoric and policy debates in America today.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Author : Costas Panagopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131751081X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to U.S. Elections written by Costas Panagopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political observers routinely lament that American democracy is broken, and many of them blame electoral malfunction. But is the system really broken? Panagopoulos and Weinschenk make the case that citizens are empowered to fix what’s wrong with electoral politics and renew democracy in America, all within the institutional setup and framework of the existing system. Put simply, much of what is broken can be fixed if people stop throwing up their arms and start rolling up their sleeves to do the hard work of building our democracy. This book provides an overview of the basic features that characterize contemporary elections in the United States and includes discussions about voter participation and decision-making patterns, money in elections, and the role of parties and the media in presidential, congressional and state and local races. It also outlines some of the most important trends and challenges in the current system. As a call to action, each chapter features potential solutions to the challenges that exist in U.S. elections.

Author : Jon Stewart (Karlin, Ben, & Javerbaum, David)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780446532686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America (The Book). written by Jon Stewart (Karlin, Ben, & Javerbaum, David) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy.

Author : Christopher C. Harmon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134662718
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism written by Christopher C. Harmon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Citizen’s Guide addresses the public policy issues of terrorism and counterterrorism in the United States after Bin Laden’s death. Written for the thinking citizen and student alike, this succinct and up-to-date book takes a "grand strategy" approach toward terrorism and uses examples and issues drawn from present-day perpetrators and actors. Christopher Harmon, a veteran academic of military theory who has also instructed U.S. and foreign military officers, organizes his book into four sections. He first introduces the problem of America’s continued vulnerability to terrorist attack by reviewing the long line of recent attacks and attempts against the U.S., focusing specifically on New York City. Part II examines the varied ways in which the U.S. is already fighting terrorism, highlighting the labors of diverse experts, government offices, intelligence and military personnel, and foreign allies. The book outlines the various aspects of the U.S. strategy, including intelligence, diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic counterterrorism, and law and law-making. Next, Harmon sketches the prospects for further action, steering clear of simple partisanship and instead listing recommendations with pros and cons and also including factual stories of how individual citizens have made a difference in the national effort against terrorism. This concise book will contribute to our understanding of the problems surrounding terrorism and counterterrorism—and the approaches the United States may take to meet them—in the early 21st century

Author : David Patrick Houghton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135015155
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy written by David Patrick Houghton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American foreign policy often looks like a trail of man-made debris and disaster. Of course, the explanations for many poorly-made decisions are rather complex. In this brief and cogent analysis, Houghton shows us that understanding American foreign policy often comes down to recognizing the cognitive limitations of the decision-makers, which affects the foreign policy process. Then there is the nature of the decisions themselves. Quite a few decisions in American foreign policy involve ‘tragic’ choices, where leaders are effectively confronted with a series of progressively bad or uncomfortable options. And it is equally clear that some policies are not the product of any one individual’s preferences, but emerge as a consequence of the way in which complex modern governments with large bureaucracies operate. Written with the interested layperson in mind, as well as students of international affairs, this Citizen’s Guide to American Foreign Policy asks questions like, "Why do presidents so often do things which seem to be directly against the national interests of the United States – not just in retrospect, but even at the time?" "Why do there seem to be so many fiascoes in US foreign policy?" "Why does Congress sometimes tie the hands of the president in foreign affairs?" "Why do presidents seem to respond more to opinion polls or to what’s on CNN and Fox News than they do to the core interests of the United States?" Houghton’s overview helps us see past the partisan in-fighting that too often obscures the central issues in foreign affairs. This is vital, required reading for all readers who wish to better understand America’s involvement in the world.