"Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious business of government. Leech's probing questions reflect her years of research tracking the real impact of money and influence on policy."--Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP) Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their...

A dynamic young leader shows how leading with love and respect creates success in business and life Written by the founder of Operation HOPE and advisor to the past two U.S. presidents, this groundbreaking book makes the case that the best way to get ahead is to figure out what you have to give to a world seemingly obsessed with the question: What do I get? Aimed at a new generation of leaders and extremely relevant for today's economic climate, Love...

In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor...

In 2008, the financial crisis caused many workers to lose their jobs. Middle-Class Jobs is a book that was written to try to focus on policies that could be created and passed to create middle-class jobs as well as solve many problems our country needs to address. The book is designed to be a basic reference guide in determining what types of policies could benefit communities by providing middle-class jobs. Instead of chapters 1 and 2, the sections...

Do NOT read this material if you are an old liberal, a Democrat, an Obama supporter, or have HIGH Blood Pressure. I was raised as a staunch Democrat in the mid-West. I hated Ronald Regan. How Regan actually brought me into the Republican party. A forgotten story about Hillary & Beethoven. In defense of our mid-East friend, Israel. A Critique of Washington corruption. I'm a card carrying member of that "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", you know, Americans...

Hacia fines de 2001, la Argentina vivió la mayor debacle económica, social y política de su historia. Tras la renuncia de De la Rúa, la corporación política, encabezada por Eduardo Duhalde, buscó neutralizar el descalabro institucional, pero no pudo superar la profunda crisis de poder que el neoliberalismo había dejado, por lo cual debió convocar a elecciones para reconstruir legitimidad. En este convulsionado escenario surgió el kirchnerismo,...

Esta obra recopila las experiencias pedagógicas, a partir de su trabajo de investigación, de un grupo de profesores de las Facultades de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Rosario. Con el fi n de dar visibilidad a la laboral investigativa y pedagógica de los profesores de estas facultades. El texto presenta los diferentes métodos y técnicas en que cada uno de los investigadores realiza sus ejercicios académicos...

After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will. Seidler argues that we need new political imaginations...

Con motivo del 50º aniversario del comienzo del gobierno del presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva —el primer democratacristiano que llegó a La Moneda—, quien encabezó una administración que realizó profundas transformaciones, los editores de este libro convocaron a un seminario para dialogar sobre cómo se diseñaron y aplicaron esas políticas. Titulado "El gobierno de Eduardo Frei Montalva. A 50 años de su elección presidencial", el que se...

Antonia Maioni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability...