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BrightPoint Press
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2024.
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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In the United States, citizens elect leaders to represent them in the government. They do so by voting in elections. Voting gives people a say in how the government is run. But not everyone has always had the right to vote. Throughout history, many people had to fight for equal voting rights. Fair Elections and Voting Rights explores US elections, looking at how voting has changed over time and how people keep elections fair.
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From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children.
Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. masterfully analyzes how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must do to right them, and most importantly why. He argues...
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From John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Fight is an exploration of Gen Z, the issues that matter most to them, and how they will shape the future.
9/11. The war on terror. Hurricane Katrina. The 2008 financial crisis. The housing crisis. The opioid epidemic. Mass school shootings. Global warming. The Trump presidency. COVID-19.
Since they were born, Generation Z (also known as "zoomers")—those born...
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Voici plusieurs années maintenant qu'un vent mauvais se lève sur l'Europe. Sur la scène politique de ses pays, tant de l'Est que de l'Ouest, on assiste au retour de partis qualifiés tantt d'extrême droite, tantt de nationalistes et tantt de populistes. La plupart des Parlements du continent – y compris en Belgique – comptent des élus de ces formations se nourrissant sans vergogne des peurs collectives quant à un avenir incertain et faisant...
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Para entender la política se requiere de adverbios que indiquen, precisen, señalen, delimiten y distingan matices, tal como afirma en estas páginas Fabio Giraldo Jiménez. Política con adverbios. Artículos de opinión, crítica y cultura política tiene, precisamente, el atributo de los adverbios bien situados y que, por ello, aportan al discernimiento, a la deliberación y a la crítica de la política, mientras descorre velos, desnuda intereses...
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Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.
For decades, emancipatory struggles have been deeply influenced by the slogan "Change the world without taking power." Amid growing social inequalities and the return of right-wing authoritarianism, however, many now recognize the limits of disengaging from government and the state. From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse...
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Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.
The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance from this exchange, which extended over three decades, and which touches upon the central concerns of numerous fields of study and of social organization....
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Does the people's need to believe in the president trump their duty to understand, to think critically, and demand truth? Have Americans been conditioned to ignore political frauds and believe the lies perpetuated by campaign ads? James Bovard diagnoses a national malady called "Attention Deficit Democracy," characterized by a citizenry that seems to be paying less attention to facts, and is less capable of judging when their rights and liberties...
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Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.
Combining political philosophy with a study of political behavior, Richard T. Longoria examines the contradictory nature of public opinion on policy issues. He argues that public opinion is often characterized by dialetheial paradoxes-when a statement and the contradiction of that statement are both held to be true. For example, a voter may express a desire for a balanced federal budget but also...
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La extrema derecha está dejando de raparse la cabeza y cada vez emplea menos el saludo romano, ahora se pone traje y Corbata, y, junto al emoji de carita sonriente y el de la taza de café, continúa la cadena de fake news y comparte los titulares con mayor clickbait que le han llegado a través de sus redes sociales para dar los buenos días. Aunque aquella resulta clara y llanamente amenazadora, la nueva versión encierra peligros que pasan fácilmente...
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His hard-hitting critiques of Democratic and Republican administrations in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, and other national publications have made him a "bipartisan scourge." Now, James Bovard launches a blistering attack on the Bush administration that will add new fuel to the fires of Bush opponents while giving presidential supporters much to think about. In a series of cogently argued allegations, Bovard shows how the...
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Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability.
A growing number of people are enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian and humanitarian manner? What type of political agency and new political...
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Americans have been trying to shape democracy around the world for more than a century. It is the American mission, our distinctive form of evangelism. But, when President Bush declared, in his second inaugural address, that "the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands," he elevated this cause-the "Freedom Agenda," as he called it-to the central theme of American foreign policy. Yet the war in...
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Kaum ein Land der freien westlichen Welt braucht Direkte Demokratie nötiger als Deutschland ...
... denn fast nirgendwo ist das Volk so schwach und die Demokratie durch den herrschenden Parteienstaat so weit ausgehöhlt. In über 60 Jahren haben Parteien ihre Macht und materielle Habgier auf alle öffentlichen Bereiche ausgedehnt: Regierung, Fraktionen, Parlament, Verwaltung, staatliche Medien und sogar aufs Bundesverfassungsgericht.
Die Zeit des...
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Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.
Citizens' Power in Latin America takes the reader into the heart of communities where average citizens are attempting to build a new democratic model to improve their socioeconomic conditions and to have a voice in decisions that affect their lives. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork conducted in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile, Pascal...
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La corrupción política se refiere a los actos deshonestos o delictivos cometidos por funcionarios y autoridades públicas que abusan de su poder e influyen a realizar un mal uso intencional de los recursos financieros y humanos a los que tienen acceso, anticipando sus intereses personales o los de sus allegados, para conseguir una ventaja ilegítima generalmente de forma secreta y privada. El término opuesto a corrupción política es transparencia....
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In We’ve Got To Try, O’Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win one of the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight...
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With refugees and migrants coming to America, seeking the American Dream, most of them are facing the tough struggle and utter disillusionment. Apart from the issues of poverty and population explosion, the country is infested with the curse of racism and sectarianism. Moreover, the relentlessly increasing Muslim people, both natives and foreign descendants have been accused of posing threats to the country. Why do you want to come to America, examines...
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