Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy 9781442200043, 9780742562653

Continuing large-scale migration to the United States raises the question of how best to integrate new immigrants into t

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Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy
9781442200043, 9780742562653

Hugh Heclo proposes that Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. Responding to

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Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, p

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Do elections turn people into democratic citizens? Elections have long been seen as a way to foster democracy, developme

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This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prolo

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Examines democracy as it relates to the metaphysical principle of natural law, which asserts that certain rights are end

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Robert B. Westbrook reconstructs the evolution of Dewey's thought and practice in this masterful intellectual biogr

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Removed from abstract political principle and observed in the policies of historical educational regimes, changing ideas

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Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy making in many states. Referen

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An examination of the internal government and normal operation of trade unions. Looks at the development of the trade un

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