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Coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers : accountability for those who caused the crisis
\"In 2020, hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols\"-- Provided by publisher
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Dynamics of American Democracy
Democracy is in crisis. Washington is failing. Government is
broken. On these counts many politicians, policy experts, and
citizens agree. What is less clear is why-and what to do about it.
These questions are at the heart of Dynamics of American
Democracy , which goes beneath the surface of current events to
explore the forces reshaping democratic politics in the United
States and around the world. Bringing together leading scholars and
practitioners of politics and governance, this volume charts a
twenty-first-century landscape beset by ideological polarization
and political tribalism; rapid demographic, economic, and
technological change; the influence of online news and social
media; and the increasing importance of public attitudes about
gender and race. Against this fraught background the authors
consider the performance of the two-party system, the operations of
Congress and the presidency, and the ways in which ordinary
citizens form their beliefs and make their voting decisions. The
contributors' work represents a wide range of perspectives and
methodological approaches and provides insight into what ails
American governance, from the practice of politics as tribal
warfare to the electoral rules that produce a two-party hegemony,
and from the impact of social media-including how differently
conservatives and liberals use Twitter-to the significance of
President Trump in historical and institutional perspective.
Finally, Dynamics of American Democracy goes beyond
diagnosis to present and evaluate the value and viability of
proposals for reforming politics.
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Spy watching : intelligence accountability in the United States
Given the dangers they face, nations must have effective spy services. Democracies must also ensure, however, that their spies are well supervised in order to prevent abuses of secret power. In Spy Watching, a sweeping history of how America's spy agencies have wrestled with public accountability, one of America's leading experts on the intelligence community, shows how the tension between liberty and security has been at the heart of every major intelligence controversy from the early Cold War up through the issue of Russia's role in the 2016 election.
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Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability
In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is established in the Oval Office. To measure correlations between presidential campaigns and policy-making, Michele P. Claibourn closely examines detailed campaign advertising information, survey data about citizen's responses to campaigns, processes that create expectations among constituents, and media attention and response to candidates. _x000B__x000B_Disputing the notion that presidents ignore campaign issues upon being elected, Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability contends that candidates raise issues that matter and develop ideas to address these issues based on voter reactions. Conventional disappointment in presidential campaigns stems from a misunderstanding of the role that presidents play in a system of separate institutions sharing power, and Claibourn forces us to think about presidential campaigns in the context of the presidency--what the president realistically can and cannot do. Based on comparisons of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama campaigns and the first years of the subsequent presidential administrations, Claibourn builds a generalized theory of agenda accountability, showing how presidential action is constrained by campaign agendas.
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Fed power : how finance wins
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King's Fed Power is the first sustained examination of the Fed as a potent political institution that systematically provides concealed advantages to a privileged few. The authors trace the Fed's historic development from the fiery tug-of-war over monetary policy during the 19th century to its current position as the most important institution in the American economy, possessing unparalleled capacity and autonomy to intervene in private markets.
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