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Author : Emile Chabal
Release : 2015-04-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 512/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Divided Republic by : Emile Chabal
Download or read book A Divided Republic written by Emile Chabal. This book was released on 2015-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold interpretation of contemporary French political culture that uses current political debates to understand how the French engage with politics.
Author : Alberto Alesina
Release : 1995-01-27
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy by : Alberto Alesina
Download or read book Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy written by Alberto Alesina. This book was released on 1995-01-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an integrated approach to understanding the American economy and national elections. Economic policy is generally seen as the result of a compromise between the President and Congress. Because Democrats and Republicans usually maintain polarized preferences on policy, middle-of-the-road voters seek to balance the President by reinforcing in Congress the party not holding the White House. This balancing leads, always, to relatively moderate policies and, frequently, to divided government. The authors first outline the rational partisan business cycle, where Republican administrations begin with recession, and Democratic administrations with expansions, and next the midterm cycle, where the President's party loses votes in the mid-term congressional election. The book argues that both cycles are the result of uncertainty about the outcome of presidential elections. Other topics covered include retrospective voting on the economy, coat-tails, and incumbency advantage. A final chapter shows how the analysis sheds light on the economies and political processes of other industrial democracies.
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Release : 2018-04-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 527/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis #Republic by : Cass R. Sunstein
Download or read book #Republic written by Cass R. Sunstein. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy—and what can be done about it As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand one another. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic. In this revealing book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein shows how today’s Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism--and what can be done about it. He proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation, showing that #Republic need not be an ironic term. Rather, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies need most.
Author : Emile Chabal
Release : 2015-04-02
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 21X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Divided Republic by : Emile Chabal
Download or read book A Divided Republic written by Emile Chabal. This book was released on 2015-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original and sophisticated historical interpretation of contemporary French political culture. Until now, there have been few attempts to understand the political consequences of the profound geopolitical, intellectual and economic changes that France has undergone since the 1970s. However, Emile Chabal's detailed study shows how passionate debates over citizenship, immigration, colonial memory, the reform of the state and the historiography of modern France have galvanised the French elite and created new spaces for discussion and disagreement. Many of these debates have coalesced around two political languages - republicanism and liberalism - both of which structure the historical imagination and the symbolic vocabulary of French political actors. The tension between these two political languages has become the central battleground of contemporary French politics. It is around these two poles that politicians, intellectuals and members of France's vast civil society have tried to negotiate the formidable challenges of ideological uncertainty and a renewed sense of global insecurity.
Author : E.J. Dionne Jr.
Release : 2012-05-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 40X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Our Divided Political Heart by : E.J. Dionne Jr.
Download or read book Our Divided Political Heart written by E.J. Dionne Jr.. This book was released on 2012-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America today is at a political impasse; we face a nation divided and discontented. Acclaimed political commentator E.J. Dionne argues that Americans can't agree on who we are as a nation because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us "Americans." Dionne places our current quarrels in the long-standing tradition of struggle between two core values: the love of individualism and our reverence for community. Both make us who we are, and to ignore either one is to distort our national character. He sees the current Tea Party as a representation of hyper-individualism, and takes on their agenda-serving distortions of history, from the Revolution to the Civil War and the constitutional role of government. Tea Partiers have reacted fiercely to President Obama, who seeks to restore a communitarian balance - a cause in American liberalism which Dionne traces through recent decades. The ability of the American system to self-correct may be one of its greatest assets, but we have been caught in cycles of over-correcting. Dionne seeks, through an understanding of our factious past, to rediscover the idea of true progress, and the confidence that it can be achieved.
