الوصف: 'A brilliant lawyer...A new and very important book. I would encourage all people...to read!'—President Donald J. Trump“Absolutely amazing…. If you care about justice...read this book.”—Sean Hannity“Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else.”—PoliticoAlan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek. Yet he has come under partisan fire for applying those same principles to Donald Trump during the course of his many appearances in national media outlets as an expert resource on civil liberties and constitutional law.The Case Against Removing Trump seeks to reorient the debate over impeachment to the same standard that Dershowitz has continued to uphold for decades: the law of the United States of America, as established by the Constitution. In the author's own words:“In the fervor to impeach President Trump, his political enemies have ignored the text of the Constitution. As a civil libertarian who voted against Trump, I remind those who would impeach him not to run roughshod over a document that has protected us all for two and a quarter centuries. In this case against impeachment, I make arguments similar to those I made against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton (and that I would be making had Hillary Clinton been elected and Republicans were seeking to impeach her). Impeachment and removal of a president are not entirely political decisions by Congress. Every member takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution sets out specific substantive criteria that MUST be met.I am thrilled to contribute to this important debate and especially that my book will be so quickly available to readers so they can make up their own minds.”

المؤلفون: Alan Dershowitz

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Misconduct in office--United States, Impeachments--United States, Political corruption--United States

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, LAW / Civil Law, LAW / Government / Federal, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet

الوصف: Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion of open space to housing and business buildings), as well as the initiation of progressive changes such as the use of green energy and control of corruption. Given the limited available research in this area, this book fills a void for scholars in the field, undergraduate and graduate students as well as those interested in the politics of local government.

المؤلفون: Barry E. Truchil

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Politics, Practical--United States, Local budgets--United States, Local government--United States, Political corruption--United States

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy

الوصف: An investigation into how legislators have taken advantage of their positions—and of weak financial disclosure laws—to make millions. After a historic financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 men and women who draft the nation's laws. Members of Congress directed millions of dollars to infrastructure projects near their residences and businesses, in some cases paving roads in front of their houses. They made major trades in the stocks of companies pressing them for legislation. They wrote laws favoring industries in which they were invested. They sponsored bills on which their own family members were paid to lobby. All of it is legal under the rules Congress has written for itself. Democracy Inc. shows the consequences of this system.

المؤلفون: The Washington Post, David S. Fallis, Scott Higham, Dan Keating, Kimberly Kindy

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Political corruption--United States, Conspiracy theories--United States

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch

الوصف: THE BOOK WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READHow is it that politicians often enter office with relatively modest assets, but then, as investors, regularly beat the stock market and sometimes beat the most rapacious hedge funds? How did some members of Congress know to dump their stock holdings just in time to escape the effects of the 2008 financial meltdown? And how is it that billionaires and hedge fund managers often make well-timed investment decisions that anticipate events in Washington? In this powerfully argued book, Peter Schweizer blows the lid off Washington's epidemic of “honest graft.” He exposes a secret world where members of Congress insert earmarks into bills to improve their own real-estate holdings, and campaign contributors receive billions in federal grants. Nobody goes to jail. Throw Them All Out casts light into the darkest corners of the political system — and offers ways to clean house.'Throw Them All Out is filled with stories of petty theft and so-called'honest graft'... Unsparingly bipartisan in [its] criticism of Washington... Mr. Schweizer has performed a valuable service to his country.'— Washington Times

المؤلفون: Peter Schweizer

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Political corruption--United States

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch

الوصف: Viewing aging and identity through the critical lens of both contemporary gerontology theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine a vast range of issues: from disability to clothing; from aging, health and education to social philosophies and meanings of aging; and from auto-ethnographic methodologies to rethinking postmodern theories of aging. These rich examples demonstrate that traditional biomedical models of aging can no longer give universal and totalising views of aging. The key issue of the book is to point to the varied social and cultural representations and experiences of aging and identity formation. The book celebrates the diversity of older people, challenging the bio-medical equation of'aging as decline'with exciting and alternative theorizations from postmodern gerontology. Further, a postmodern approach helps to debunk and shatter fixed and limited perceptions of aging by advocating an alternative expression of aging; the conceptual and theoretical focus on aging identity illuminates the self is fluid, changeable and dynamic. This book engages social theory with aging identity by analysing the challenges and opportunities afforded to older people in the ‘contemporary age of aging'.

المؤلفون: Maskell, Jack

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Political corruption--United States, Legislators--United States

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch