Politicians

Author : Sean Wilentz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285014
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics written by Sean Wilentz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America’s enduring struggle against economic inequality. “There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history.” So begins The Politicians & the Egalitarians, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz’s bold new work of history. First, America is built on an egalitarian tradition. At the nation’s founding, Americans believed that extremes of wealth and want would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. Ever since, that idea has shaped national political conflict and scored major egalitarian victories—from the Civil War and Progressive eras to the New Deal and the Great Society—along the way. Second, partisanship is a permanent fixture in America, and America is the better for it. Every major egalitarian victory in United States history has resulted neither from abandonment of partisan politics nor from social movement protests but from a convergence of protest and politics, and then sharp struggles led by principled and effective party politicians. There is little to be gained from the dream of a post-partisan world. With these two insights Sean Wilentz offers a crystal-clear portrait of American history, told through politicians and egalitarians including Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, and W. E. B. Du Bois—a portrait that runs counter to current political and historical thinking. As he did with his acclaimed The Rise of American Democracy, Wilentz once again completely transforms our understanding of this nation’s political and moral character.

Author : Peter Schweizer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547573146
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Throw Them All Out written by Peter Schweizer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the state of government and the depths of its political corruption.

Author : Peter Schweizer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544103343
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extortion written by Peter Schweizer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new expose of financial outrages in Washington, by the best-selling author and investigative journalist.

Author : Nathan M. Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108311423
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incentives to Pander written by Nathan M. Jensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting investment. Thus, while fiscal incentives are economically inefficient, they pose an effective pandering strategy for politicians. Using original surveys of voters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as data on incentive use by politicians in the US, Vietnam and Russia, this book provides compelling evidence for the use of fiscal incentives for political gain and shows how such pandering appears to be associated with growing economic inequality. As national and subnational governments surrender valuable tax revenue to attract businesses in the vain hope of long-term economic growth, they are left with fiscal shortfalls that have been filled through regressive sales taxes, police fines and penalties, and cuts to public education.

Author : Lawrence R. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226389837
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicians Don't Pander written by Lawrence R. Jacobs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-21 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and engagingly written book, the authors argue that politicians seldom tailor their policy decisions to "pander" to public opinion. In fact, they say that when not facing election, contemporary presidents and members of Congress routinely ignore the public's preferences and follow their own political philosophies. 37 graphs.

Author : ISABEL. HARDMAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838958473
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Get the Wrong Politicians written by ISABEL. HARDMAN and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel D. ABERBACH
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020049
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies written by Joel D. ABERBACH and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth.

Author : Bruce K. Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936599530
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicians written by Bruce K. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans love to trash their politicians as corrupt and self-interested, but they don't agree on a solution. How can America attract good leaders to the thousands of elective offices in the land? In Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except for All the Others, Bruce Chapman lays out a bold plan for the changes we need to make in our public life if we are serious about enabling worthy leaders to emerge and to succeed. Drawing on history as well as his own extensive experience in politics and public policy, Chapman challenges the conventional wisdom about politicians, arguing that their chief rivals-the media, bureaucrats, college professors, and even political "reform" groups-are often sources of further political demoralization rather than renewal. Republicans and Democrats alike, conservatives and liberals, have a stake in responding to the stirring and provocative challenge raised by this book.

Author : Richard F. Fenno
Publisher : Institute of Governmental Studies Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching Politicians written by Richard F. Fenno and published by Institute of Governmental Studies Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank George Layton
Publisher : London : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.KJ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politicians written by Frank George Layton and published by London : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 1913 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: