Legislative Strategy is a "how-to" book on the creation of public policy through legislative action. Written for scholars, policy makers, and activists, the book focuses on the kinds of strategic and tactical choices that policy advocates face in their attempts to influence Congress and the process of legislation. Legislative Strategy is distinctive in its discussion of the overall political environment in which public policy is crafted, as well as its analysis of how change and manipulation of rules is part of the process by which policy advocates are able to pass legislation. The authors include an extended treatment of subjects such as the flow of "legislative intelligence"; the strategic timing of bills; and the means by which Senate and House members use filibusters, delays, amendments, and protocol to manipulate legislative outcomes.

Legislative Strategy: Shaping Public Policy (American Life; Publication of the)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gross, Bertram

Schneier, Edward

Politics & Government

Wadsworth Publishing

Congress Today

Schneier, Edward V.

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

An examination of current economic and political trends in the U.S. finds an increasing manipulation of the nation's key resources

Friendly Fascism

History

World

M.Evans & Company

Illuminates the increasing collusion between Big Government and Big Business to "manage" our society in the interests of the elite.

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

Constitutional Law

South End Press

This provocative and original look at current trends in the United States presents a grim forecast of a possible totalitarian future. The author shows how the chronic problems faced by the U.S. in the late twentieth century require increasing collusions between Big Business and Big Government in order to 'manage' society in the interests of the rich and powerful. 
This "friendly fascism", Gross argues, will probably lack the dictatorships, public spectacles and overt brutality of the classic varieties of Germany, Italy and Japan, but has at its root the same denial of individual freedoms and democratic rights. No one who cares about the future of democracy can afford to ignore the frightening possibilities of Friendly Fascism.
This is certainly a strikingly prescient book for a Trump era.

Sociology

Black Rose Books

This provocative and original look at current trends in the United States presents a grim forecast of a possible totalitarian future. The author shows how the chronic problems faced by the U.S. in the late twentieth century require increasing collusions between Big Business and Big Government in order to 'manage' society in the interests of the rich and powerful. 
This "friendly fascism", Gross argues, will probably lack the dictatorships, public spectacles and overt brutality of the classic varieties of Germany, Italy and Japan, but has at its root the same denial of individual freedoms and democratic rights. No one who cares about the future of democracy can afford to ignore the frightening possibilities of Friendly Fascism.
A strikingly prescient book for a Trump era.

Friendly Fascism (New Face of Power in America)

Business & Money

Economics

Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundation for Responsible Hope (U.S.-Post-Soviet Dialogues) (A U.S.-Post-Soviet Dialogue)

Leading specialists and activists from Russia and the USA join, in this volume, to offer a searching assessment of human rights in their own countries and in the world at large. They reflect on past history, present problems associated with system breakdown and decline, and the obstacles and opportunities on the way to the realisation of human rights in this uncertain post-Cold War era and the millennium that is now dawning. The participants in the discussions detailed here include Yelena Bonner, Viktor Chkhikvadze, Norman Dorsen, Riane Eisler, David Forsythe, Paula Garb, Charles Henry, Susan Heuman, Irina Lediakh, Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Pavel Litvinov, Richard Schifter, Henry Shue, Evgenii Skripilev, Vladimir Vlashihin, Oleg Vorobiev and the editors.

Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundation for Responsible Hope (A U.S.-Post-Soviet Dialogue)

Katz, Stanley

Juviler, Peter

Kartashkin, Vladimir

Lukasheva, Elena

Foreign & International Law

Routledge

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