• Predicting the future of post-industrial society / Seymour Martin Lipset
• The continuing demographic revolution in industrial societies / Kingsley Davis
• Religion and the American future / Peter L. Berger
• Constitutionalism, federalism, and the post-industrial American polity / Daniel J. Elazar
• Judicial activism / Martin Shapiro
• The prophylactic presidency / Sanford Weiner and Aaron Wildavsky
• The American party system today / Everett Carll Ladd, Jr.
• The future of the American labor movement / John T. Dunlop
• American Catholics: the post-immigrant century / Andrew M. Greeley
• American Jews: three conflicts of loyalty / Nathan Glazer
• The Black community: Is there a future? / Orlando Patterson
• The future of women in America's third century / Sheila K. Johnson
• The future of the university / Robert Nisbet
• The adversary culture of intellectuals / Irving Kristol
• The mass media in post-industrial America / Stanley Rothman
• Continuity and change in the American National character / Alex Inkeles.

• Introduction: Forging the American character
• Engineering patriotism
• The American civil-military religion and the Cold War
• Ideological and spiritual mobilization
• Evangelical democracy and the reshaping of the American character
• The U.S. military and the radical right
• Epilogue: The citizen soldier in retrospect.

The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. Here, author Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned themselves this role and why they sought to create ""ideologically sound Americans capable of defeating communism and assuring the victory of democracy at home and abroad."" Bogle shows that this view of America's civil religion predated tension with the Soviet Union. She traces this trend from the Progressive Era though the early Cold War, when the Truman and Eisenhower administrations formulated plans that promised to prepare the American public morally and spiritually for confrontation with the evils of communism. Bogle's analysis suggests that cooperation among the military, evangelical right wing groups, and government was considered both necessary and normal. The Boy Scouts pushed a narrow vision of American democracy, and Joe McCarthy's chauvinism was less an aberration than a noxious manifestation of a widespread attitude. To combat communism, America and its armed forces embraced a narrow moral education that attacked everyone and everything not consonant with their view of the world order. Exposure of this alliance ultimately dissolved it.
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• Introduction-- G.Peele, C.J.Bailey, B.Cain & B.G.Peters - Electoral Politics: The 2000 Elections and Beyond-- V.Sapiro - Political Parties-- D.McSweeney - Pressure Groups, Social Movements and Participation-- S.Welch - The Presidency-- J.Herbert - Congress-- E.Schickler - The Supreme Court and the Constitution-- T.Yarbrough - Bureaucracy and Public Management-- B.G.Peters - Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations-- G.Peele - Economic Policy-- C.Bailey - Law and Order-- R.Singh - Social Policy-- F.Ross - Health Care Policy-- S.Linder & P.Rosenau - Foreign and Security Policy-- D.Williams - Direct Democracy-- E.Gerber - Religion and Morality-- S.B.Hansen - The Media-- T.Hames - Campaign Finance-- Alan Grant - The US in Evolution-- Bruce Cain.
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The long drawn out and heavily politicised presidential election process in 2000 with the winner Republican George W. Bush taking a smaller percentage of the popular vote that his Democratic rival, raised important issues of legitimacy. The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington posed a major new challenge to the American political system. Written by a team of authorities and edited to provide an accessible and coherent student text, "Developments in American Politics 4" assesses the implications of both and the early record of the second Bush in the White House.
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• Part 1 the politica lsystem sources of political change: values, institutions and policy agendas, Gillian Peele-- the American electoral system, Bruce E. Cain-- American political parties, Daniel Hays Lowenstein-- presidential leadership, Colin Campbell-- congress and legislative activism, Christopher J. Bailey-- supreme court, Richard Hodder-William-- public bureaucracy, B. Guy Peters.
• Part 2 Public policy: the changing federal balance, Desmond S. King-- economic policy, Joseph Hogan-- social welfare policy, Robert X. Browning-- American foreign policy, Miles Kahler.
• Part 3 Current issues: the budget deficit, Stanley E. Collender-- immigration reforms - a Mexican American perspecitve, Rodolfo O. de la Garza.
• Part 5 conclusion: an era of divided government, Morris P. Fiorina.
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The second edition provides a new and up-to-date analytical examination of the main institutions and political processes in the United States, written by leading authorities to provide a student text. Focuses on the trends of the 1990s and sets the scene for an understanding of American politics into the new century.
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His distinguished career as presidential advisor and speechwriter included major contributions to President Johnson's civil rights and Great Society programs. Now Goodwin has written an impassioned call for political action. My Country, 'Tis of Thee proposes a new political movement to restore what he calls "democratic capitalism".
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• PART I â THE FOUNDATIONS
• Chapter 1: The Constitution - The Meal Deal: The Bargain of 1970 That Established Washington DC
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• Chapter 10: Interest Groups â Obamaâ s Health-care Reform: The White House Networks the Industry
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• Chapter 15: The Supreme Court â Watergate and U.S. v. Nixon: The Supreme Court Referees.
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Debuting in its first edition, Politics in Action: Cases from the Frontlines of American Government shows contemporary politics in action, illustrates core political science concepts, and makes students more familiar with American political history. .
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• Part 1 Part I: The Global Imagination
• Chapter 2 1 Democracy, Foreign Policy, and War
• Chapter 3 2 Immigration Policy: A View from the Left
• Part 4 Part II: The Domestic Policy Imagination
• Chapter 5 3 From Private Profits to Public Goods? A Human Rights Assessment of Health Care Reform
• Chapter 6 4 Higher Education: Reclaiming the University as a Democratic Public Sphere
• Chapter 7 5 The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
• Chapter 8 6 Charlie Brown, Machiavelli, and Labor's Passive Revolution
• Part 9 Part III: Beyond Policy
• Chapter 10 7 Radical Feminism in the Age of Choice
• Chapter 11 8 Religion, Spirituality, and the Progressive Imagination
• Chapter 12 9 Race and Democracy: The American Oxymoron
• Chapter 13 10 Sketching a More Progressive Public Philosophy: The Theory of Republican Modernity.
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Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining themselves solely by what they are against, this collection challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how radical politics can lead to a more fruitful democracy. Dealing with pressing issues of the day such as health care, race, immigration, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism, liberalism, education, and the media, this edited volume looks at the prospects for a progressive turn in U.S. politics. In doing so, it hopes to inspire the radical imagination by showing where we can go from here. As technology continues to enable greater access to ideas around the world, the power of intellectuals is greater than ever. And given that the world is full of crushing poverty, sexism, uneven development, environmental degeneration, religious fanaticism, racism, and imperialism, the need for intellectuals to inspire the radical imagination by championing principles of economic and social justice, democracy, and universality is also greater than ever. However, political visions are required to guide that struggle. This is the aim of this book.
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"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism "is" a religion--a godless one. And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In "Godless, " Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ ("Roe v. Wade"), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident). Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: "it is bogus science." Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is--Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the "evolving" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, "Godless" is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices. "Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious, ' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" --From Godless.
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In The Collapse of Liberalism, noted political scientist Charles Noble takes liberalism to task for not being radical enough - for what he sees as a long history of how liberalism has accommodated the very economic institutions and corporate actors it has wanted to challenge. As a result, Noble argues, liberals have been unable or unwilling to confront directly class, race, gender, inequality, and corporate power. In other words, American liberalism suffers not only at the hands of conservatives, but also from its own failures of vision, will, and political strategy. Beyond a critique, Noble offers a breath-taking new strategy for how American progressives can rebuild their support base and regain political prominence. Clear, engaging, and thought-provoking, The Collapse of Liberalism is a politically engaged interrogation of the way American liberals think about social problems and build political coalitions.
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• Iraq, the United States, and international law : beyond the sanctions / Richard Falk
• Power, propaganda and indifference : an explanation of the maintenance of economic sanctions on Iraq despite their human cost / Eric Herring
• British policy towards economic sanctions on Iraq, 1990-2002 / Milan Rai
• Oil, sanctions, debt and the future / Abbas Alnasrawi
• Safeguarding "our" American children by saving "their" Iraqi children : Gandhian transformation of the DIA's genocide planning, assessment, and cover-up documents / Thomas J. Nagy
• The US obsession with Iraq and the triumph of militarism / Stephen Zunes
• Not quite an Arab Prussia : revisiting some myths on Iraqi exceptionalism / Isam al Khafaji.

The people of Iraq have suffered for more than a decade from the most severe sanctions ever imposed in any nation in history. United Nations' sanctions against Iraq began in August 1990, as an attempt to force Iraq out of Kuwait. The contributors to this volume argue that the sanctions regime has failed in its most basic aims, and ask serious questions about the real motivations of the powers involved - notably the US and UK. The contributors explain how, if sanctions had been carefully applied, they could have worked. The massive bombing campaign of 1991 destroyed Iraq's social infrastructure. Sanctions should have been modified to meet the post-Gulf War environment. Also, the US and the UK refused to agree that sanctions would be lifted if Iraq complied - left little incentive to disarm, it is not surprising that Saddam Hussein did not co-operate. Why did the sanctions continue if they did not fulfil their avowed purpose? The contributors argue that the real motives of the US and the UK were much more complex: instead of revolving around violations of human rights, terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation, sanctions may have had more to do with political powerbroking and the danger that Iraq and Iran presented to the US hegemony in the oil-rich Middle-East. Assessing these and other related questions, the contributors put forward the idea that the current sanctions against Iraq are illegal under international law.
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Why did the sanctions continue if they did not fulfil their avowed purpose? The contributors argue that the real motives of the US and the UK were much more complex: instead of revolving around violations of human rights, terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation, sanctions may have had more to do with political powerbroking and the danger that Iraq and Iran presented to the US hegemony in the oil-rich Middle-East. Assessing these and other related questions, the contributors put forward the idea that the current sanctions against Iraq are illegal under international law.
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In Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always well-reasoned, often controversial opinions on the variety of threats to individual liberty in the United States and around the world.
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In Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always well-reasoned, often controversial opinions on the variety of threats to individual liberty in the United States and around the world.
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The end of the communist regime in Eastern Europe and the USSR produced strikingly little enthusiasm in the United States. In this book, 14 political scientists ask "What effect did the Cold War have on American institutions and politics?" and "How will American politics evolve now?".
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Allegations that America is in decline have become commonplace in the years since the Cold War ended in victory for the United States: Washington, it is said, is doomed to founder in decadence, like an Imperial Rome collapsing under the weight of its armies. This thesis is energetically refuted by Alfredo Valladao. America, he believes, will dominate the 21st century because it alone has the means - and the will - to do so. It alone possesses the three qualities needed for supreme poweer: unequalled military force, the biggest and most dynamic economy on the planet and a culture with universal ambitions. The author traces the course of history from the proclamation of independence to the present-day metamorphosis into "world-America". The prophets of decline, argues Valladao, are a century or two adrift: if a historical analogy must be made, it should be with Rome in triumph after its total victory over Carthage - the Roman Republic pregnant with an empire.
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• Introduction * Politics And Politicians Who Is Newt Gingrich? The Elite Primary The Powell Phenomenon Call This a Revolution? Righter Than Newt Pat Buchanan The Conservative Bully Boy Good-bye Pat Beyond Kemp Dead Wrong Not So Wild About Harry * Public Policy Youre on Your Own Up from Subsidy A New Supply-Side Strategy Compassion for Taxpayers Working for the Man What to Do About Health Care Building Blocks Errors of Commission The Safety Cult Not on My Block Not This Quagmire Even Canada needs the Bomb * Books And Thinkers Living Without the Many Pages of My Life The Legacy of Russell Kirk The Sensible Philosopher The Nietzsche of Economics The Uses of Resentment The Palaces of Newport Peter Taylor A Passover Seder.
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David Frum celebrates a conservatism that defends both liberty and morality. Frum dissects such current political figures as Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, and Jack Kemp, offering insight into the mechanics of Republican party politics as well. Whether the issue is health care, social programs, supply-side tax cutting, crime, or censorship, Frum cuts to the essential matters of principle with passion and wit. He makes a powerful case for Republicans to reject populism, protectionism, and nationalism and return to their core doctrines: smaller government and American world leadership.
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• The Contours of the PC Debate-- The Cultural Battlefield-- Conservative Ideology-- The Post-modern Alternative-- Scepticism, Nihilism, Amorality and Anarchy-- The Politics of Culture-- Who is Totalitarian?
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Political correctness has received a bad press, according to Choi and Murphy. Indeed, the ideas and concepts embodied in PC have been trivialised by conservatives seeking to defend their own positions, and by a press catering to a public put off by philosophical discussions. Choi and Murphy seek to analyse key aspects of the debate over PC. Starting with an examination of the basic concepts of PC, they review the essentials of neo-conservative social philosophy and the "post-modern alternative" as well as neo-conservative critiques of post-modernism. By providing a comprehensive examination of PC from its historical and philosophical underpinnings, Choi and Murphy show what is at stake in the controversy. This book is aimed at researchers and students of contemporary philosophy and social policy.
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