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Campaign Coverage and Editorial Judgements: Broadcasting
If this was an election where the campaign made a difference, then the media—and especially broadcasters—played a critical role. On television, still...
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Trump Policies Expected to Contradict 70 Years of American Principles and Rationale
Welfens continues the discussion which started in the previous chapter by exploring in more depth the change in US policy under Trump. The benefits...
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The Markets
Fundamentally speaking, financial market prices are a combination of the expected return value and the risk premium demanded by investors for the...
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“Keynesian Austerity”
If anyone doubted it before, recent months have proved decisively that coalitions are quite consistent with radical policy change. What matters now...
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Pluralist Democracy Saves the United States and Invigorates Free Expression
Why did the republican democratic regime collapse in the early-twentieth century? Why did a new form of democracy emerge in the 1930s? Laissez faire...
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Conclusions
The potential Brexit, a protectionist US, and the rise of China will all push the EU to consider new reforms and a modified set of institutions which...
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Pluralist Democracy Evolves: Free Expression, Judicial Conservatism, and the Cold War
How did pluralist democracy evolve after World War II? The onset of the Cold War triggered strong impulses to suppress dissent and to emphasize...
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Sociology, Social Justice, and Victimhood
Campbell and Manning examine how victimhood culture affects the discipline of sociology. The moral concerns of victimhood culture can lead to...
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Looking Toward a More Hopeful Global Society
The new opportunities that space systems and technology now offers to us globally are potentially enormous. As we try to plot a course forward for...
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A Sequencing of the Economic Effects of Brexit
Welfens investigates the economic effects of Brexit since 2016 and provides an outlook on the likely effects still to come in 2017–2019 and what...
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San Francisco: The Artist of the Beautiful
Blaser returned to San Francisco in 1960, supporting himself again with library work. Over his six years there, he developed his version of the...
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Targeted (and Untargeted) Local Campaigning
Constituency campaigning has been transformed in recent elections. Many of the more traditional methods, such as volunteers knocking on doors and...
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Alternative Trading Models After Brexit
The analysis contained in the rest of the book is, in part, predicated upon the successful outcome of withdrawal negotiations with the EU, and the...
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In Search of the City
In this chapter, a theoretical argument is set forth in which the essential elements of the urbanization process are identified. Two main phases of...
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The Fiscal Impact of Brexit
One of the main areas where even detractors of Brexit concede that the UK will benefit from withdrawal from the EU concerns the saving of the annual...
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Triumph and Tribulations of the Mass-Production Metropolis
The advent of mass production saw the rise of major metropolitan areas in North America and Western Europe. This chapter shows in detail the policy...
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Migration
Migration has proven to be a difficult issue for successive administrations (Streeck 2016; IMF 2016), at least partly because of the centrality of...
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The Urban Commonwealth
The city is in essence a collectivity that transcends in deeply significant ways the sum of the individual firms and households that represent its...
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The Self-Deceiver (Homo delusus)
The power of belief and its impact on the human future. How beliefs are formed and why. The central beliefs—money, politics, religion, the human...
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Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Mother
My father died unexpectedly, a year before I finished at Harvard. My mother followed him only two years after I settled into Purdue for a career they...