Product Description
Campaign Finance Reform and the Future of the Democratic Party offers a new interpretation of the dynamics of the American political system. Focusing on the decline of the Democratic Party, Schneider explains how campaign finance reform would help Democrats to reverse the decades-long decline in their voter base by funding popular programs. The constant chase for campaign cash has forced Democratic politicians to concentrate on the needs of myriad special interest groups, scattering their attention across a number small issues of limited interest to most citizens. Schneider argues that this keeps them from uniting behind the kinds of broad, widely supported progressive plans that have always energized the Democratic base and won over support from middle and working class voters. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Simultaneously Gripping and Troubling
I had the pleasure of studying political economy with Professor Schneider as an undergraduate during the final stages of this book's production. Although I do not own a copy, I have read it in manuscript form. Prof. Schneider's book first relates the decline in American productivity over the past few decades to the lack of social mechanisms to support productivity growth. He then goes on to demonstrate how the traditional Democratic support base is eroding as the Democratic party switches its focus from providing these social mechanisms to satisfying special interests.

The book is clearly written, and his point is very well argued, drawing examples from issues ranging from national defense to public education and childcare. I highly suggest this to anyone, of any political affiliation, who is interested in a troubling yet gripping thesis about why the Democratic party is losing its once dominant power in American politics.

--
Interestingly, I wrote this review prior to the November 2002 elections.Prof. Schneider's thesis, also developed and published well prior to 2002, is almost a perfect fit to what many pundits and critics claim to be the reason for the Democrat's inability to pickup midterm seats.This book has turned out to be particularly prescient in that respect. ... Read more

Product Description
Subverting the System deals with an issue of fundamental importance, namely the internal evolution of the regime in the final years of Soviet power. In particular the book examines the contradictory approaches taken by Gorbachev in relation to the role and organization of the Communist Party, contradictions that effectively paralyzed the party as a functioning political organization and that ultimately provoked a dynamic that led to the fall of the system in its entirety. ... Read more

Product Description
This book charts the political transformation of Britain that resulted from the 'Great' Reform Act of 1832. It argues that this extensively debated parliamentary reform, aided by the workings of the New Poor Law (1834) and Municipal Corporations Act (1835), moved the nation far closer to a 'modern' type of representative system than has previously been supposed. Drawing on hitherto neglected local archives and the records of election solicitors, Dr Salmon demonstrates how the Reform Act's practical details, far from being mere 'small print', had a profound impact on borough and county politics. Combining computer-assisted electoral analysis with traditional methods, he traces the emergence of new types of voter partisanship and party organisation after 1832, and exposes key differences between the parties which resulted in a remarkable national recovery by the Conservative party. In passing he provides important new perspectives on issues such as MPs' relations with their constituents, the expense and culture of popular politics after 1832, the electoral impact of railway development, and the role of'deference voting' in the counties. Dr PHILIP SALMON is a Research Fellow at the History of Parliament, University of London. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

The best.
Dr. Yearley's book is one of the best texts written on reconstruction financing.It is a wonderfully written and researched work, scholars and general readers would find it of great interest ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on July 4, 1999. The length of the article is 1431 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Medios: la reforma que no llegó.(los medios y los partidos políticos en México)(TT: Means: the reform that never arrived.)(TA: means and political parties in Mexico)
Author: Ernesto Villanueva
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 4, 1999
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 40

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Burning of Parliament, Municipal Reform Party, London Trades Council, London Socialist Alliance. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Burning of Parliament is the popular name for the fire which destroyed the Palace of Westminster, the home of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on 16 October 1834. The blaze, which started from overheated chimney flues, spread rapidly throughout the medieval complex and developed into the biggest conflagration to occur in London since the Great Fire of 1666, attracting massive crowds. The fire lasted for many hours and gutted most of the Palace, including the converted St Stephen's Chapel (the meeting place of the House of Commons), the Lords Chamber, the Painted Chamber and the official residences of the Speaker and the Clerk of the House of Commons. Westminster Hall and a few other parts of the old Houses of Parliament survived the blaze and were incorporated into the New Palace of Westminster, which was built in the Gothic style over the following decades. The fire was caused by the destruction of tally sticks. The account of this event is due to the English novelist Charles Dickens, as described in a book by Tobias Dantzig. Speaking at a conference on governmental reform, Dickens told how counting devices destroyed "the halls of government". Long before Dickens' time, literate clerks of the Exchequer ceased to use tally sticks. In 1724, Treasury officials commanded that tallies no longer be used, but they long remained valid. Said Dickens: ... it took until 1826 to get these sticks abolished. In 1834 ... there was a considerable accumulation of them. ... hat was to be done with such worn-out worm-eaten, rotten old bits of wood? The sticks were housed in Westminster, and it would naturally occur to an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=319149 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: National Alliance, Reform Party of the United States of America, Danish People's Party, Balad, All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom", National Democrats, True Finns, Uk Unionist Party, Libertarianz, Christian Democrat Party, Independent Working Class Association, Constitution Party of Montana, Democratic Party (Republic of Korea, 2005), Tricolour Flame, Iraqi Turkmen Front, Christian Coalition, Forum Party of Alberta, United New Zealand, Democratic Social Movement, Sandinista Renovation Movement, Federalist Italian League, Organization for Democratic Action, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, Our Home - Russia, Yamin Yisrael, White Electoral Alliance, Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party, Atid, Angkatan Keadilan Insan Malaysia, National Party (Ireland, 1995), United Christian Democrats, Socialist People's Party, Multicultural List, World Socialist Party of India, No Aircraft Noise, Progressive Green Party, New Zealand Republican Party, Popular Party for French Democracy, Fédération Régions et Peuples Solidaires, Nepali Janata Dal, Te Tawharau, Workers' Cause Party, Revolutionary Workers' Party, Movement of Unitarian Communists, Australian Women's Party, Coalition for Melilla, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Federalist Party, Justice Social Democratic Party, Revolutionary Communist Centre of India, Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc, Party of the Nation's Retirees, With Force Peru, Sarajevo List, One Australia Party, Ethekwini Ecopeace, All-Union Communist Party, Samoan Conservative Progressive Party, Solidarity Party, New Christian Democracy, National Project, Pact of Democrats, Jatiyo Gano Front. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 189. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA, generally known simply as th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=295504 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Green League, Reform Party of Canada, Alternative Democratic Reform Party, Christian Heritage Party of Canada, International Socialist Group, Lega Nord Piemont, Venetian Most Serene Government, Hungarian Democratic Forum, Northern Ireland Labour Party, National Renewal, Lemon Party, Initiative for Catalonia Greens, Stop Immigration, Lega Nord Toscana, Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, National Democratic Congress, Vanuatu Labour Party, Workers' International League, Liberal Party of Sri Lanka, Greek Left, Mexican Socialist Party, Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction, Party for Democracy, United Communist Party of India, Orkney and Shetland Movement, Union of the Venetian People, Scottish Socialist Party, Liberty Movement, Marxist Party, Marxist-leninist Group Revolution, Veneto Autonomous Region Movement, Niue People's Party, National Democratic Party, Independent Party, Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party, Union of Communist Struggles - the Flame, Cymru Goch, Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey - Socialist Unity, Senegalese Democratic Party-Renewal, Revolutionary Socialists (Sweden, 1987), Ganotantrik Biplobi Jote. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 140. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Reform Party of Canada (French: ) was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a populist party. The party became the more conservative Canadian Alliance and move more to the right in 2000, and merged with the PC party in 2003 to form the Conservative Party of Canada, which currently forms the Government of Canada. During its time on the Canadian political scene, Reform had only one leader, Preston M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=216395 ... Read more

Product Description

Product Description
Members come and go, reforms are attempted and abandoned, but congressional norms of seniority, specialization, and reciprocity adapt, survive, and continue to influence the course of American government. In the first major look at congressional normative behavior in 25 years, Choate argues these resilient folkways survive because members value the institutional stability and continuity they provide. ... Read more

Product Description
In this perspective, influential study of the Progressive movement, Mr. Wiebe shows how businessmen helped to shape--and were shaped by--social reform in the early years of the 20th century. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Instead read The Search For Order
Businessmen and Reform is Robert H. Wiebe's first attemt at capturing the American Progressive Era.The Search for Order is his better work.I would only recommend this book if you have already read THe Search for Order. ... Read more

Product Description
The essays in this volume address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured centralised command system and to introduce some market principles to stimulate economic activity. The essays fall into four categories: theoretical and policy discussions and debates at the central leadership level; reform of the urban economy and of inter-regional relations; industrial and commercial reforms; and the rise and position of the new entrepreneurial class. Many of the essays draw on interviews with Chinese economic officials in the Central China city of Wuhan and therefore this is the only study that uses local data on actual operations of reforms from a Chinese city; the other sources are the Chinese press and Chinese official and scholarly journals. In each of the categories there are pieces from different points in the chronological process of reform.This study begins with the first theoretical discussions among China's economists and top political leaders in the late 1970s and concludes with experiments with bankruptcy and stock markets in the late 1980s. The countervailing heavy presence of the state at both the policy and the practical levels throughout the reform decade is its unifying theme. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 6742 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: In search of democratic governance in Central America: political parties are controlled by a handful of people who profit from running the parties in a patrimonial style, and there are narrow prospects for economic reforms. Why has so little progress been made?(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
Author: Carlos Sojo
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 57Issue: 1Page: 153(15)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more