Author: Union Pacific Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
National Platforms of the Republican, Democratic, Fusion Populist Or Peoples, Mid-road Populist Or Peoples, and Prohibition Parties
Author: Union Pacific Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The National Platforms of the Republican and Democratic Parties from 1856 to 1884 Inclusive. Also the State Platforms of the Several Political Parties in the State of Michigan in 1884
Author: The Tribune Almanac and Political Register
Author: Horace GreeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Partisan Nation
Author: Paul PiersonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226836444
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A provocative exploration of how America’s democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today’s nationalized, partisan politics. The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics subsuming and transforming the local. As a result, American democracy is in trouble. In this paradigm-shifting book, political scientists Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler bring a sharp new perspective to today’s challenges. Attentive to the different coalitions, interests, and incentives that define the Democratic and Republican parties, they show how contemporary polarization emerged in a rapidly nationalizing country and how it differs from polarization in past eras. In earlier periods, three key features of the political landscape—state parties, interest groups, and media—varied locally and reinforced the nation’s stark regional diversity. But this began to change in the 1960s as the two parties assumed clearer ideological identities and the power of the national government expanded, raising the stakes of conflict. Together with technological and economic change, these developments have reconfigured state parties, interest groups, and media in self-reinforcing ways. The result is that today’s polarization is self-perpetuating—and intensifying. Partisan Nation offers a powerful caution. As a result of this polarization, America’s political system is distinctly and acutely vulnerable to an authoritarian movement emerging in the contemporary Republican Party, which has both the motive and the means to exploit America’s unusual Constitutional design. Combining the precision and acuity characteristic of their earlier work, Pierson and Schickler explain what these developments mean for American governance and democracy.
Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Governance
Author: Baleshwar ThakurPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030858391
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological conservation. Though the studies focus mostly on cases in India, the volume discusses how governance can be employed to help develop and implement sustainable practices globally through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework. Readers will learn how to integrate concepts of resource management, sustainable development, and governance to improve human resilience to global environmental change, and to assess the proper development approaches to assist economically stressed and resource-deprived individuals. The book will be of use to graduate students and academics, policy makers, planners, and nonprofits.
Partisanship and Polarization
Author: Adam M. SilverPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498585574
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This volume explores the development of political parties in nineteenth-century United States of America through an extensive analysis of the official statements by a party in an election, the party platforms, and their connection with political elites and voters. Platforms indicate how party leaders reconciled local, state, and national conflicts and articulated their electoral appeals to various constituencies by showing discussions of their respective policies. Thus, party platforms are a valuable vehicle to assess electoral strategy and party development. By focusing on the platforms of the major political parties—Democrats, Whigs, and Republicans—at the state and national levels in presidential elections from 1840 to 1896, the author identifies three salient patterns. First, platforms reference economic policy more frequently and to a greater degree than other policy areas. Second, national policies are discussed more than state policies. And third, over time, the content of the platforms becomes more similar, reflecting the nationalization of the party system. This examination of nineteenth-century American party platforms traces political party development as a dynamic process involving partisanship, the presentation of internally coherent and consistent messages to voters, and polarization, the existence of conflicting policy positions across parties.
The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880–1896
Author: Daniel KlinghardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139488104
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century, an innovation that reversed the parties' traditional privileging of state and local interests in nominating campaigns and the conduct of national campaigns. Between 1880 and 1896, party elites crafted a defense of these national organizations that charted the theoretical parameters of American party development into the twentieth century. With empowered national committees and a new understanding of the parties' role in the political system, national party leaders dominated American politics in new ways, renewed the parties' legitimacy in an increasingly pluralistic and nationalized political environment, and thus maintained their relevance throughout the twentieth century. The new organizations particularly served the interests of presidents and presidential candidates, and the little-studied presidencies of the late nineteenth century demonstrate the first stirrings of modern presidential party leadership.
A History of the Republican Party from Its Organization to the Present Time
Author: Eugene Virgil SmalleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Increased exchange in the Building Sector
Author: Lone Møller SørensenPublisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 928931849X
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
In November 2004 the Nordic Council of Ministers together with the Nordic countries, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland decided to initiate a collaboration by approving an action plan for improved co-operation between the countries concerned in the area of construction and building. The co-operation will take place through the following activities:" to make market information and information on national regulations accessible to potential actors on the market" to expand the basis of experience and newfound knowledge in housing construction" to undertake a comparative analysis of regulations within the building sector intended to serve as a basis for deliberations on possible harmonization" to make it possible to compare competency requirements imposed on certain actors in the building process" to establish a network for joint research and development on issues relevant to the plan of action. This report presents the first and the second phase of the Nibcor project. The objective was to facilitate the establishment of a network for joint research and development on issues relevant to the plan of action. Three areas for joint R & D have been identified: Meeting client and users requirements Transformation of the Construction Sector Digital Built environment The project also included an activity plan for establishing a regional network in these fields, where the completion of a workshop for stakeholders in the building industrial complex was central.
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. This Special Report explores the social as well as physical dimensions of weather- and climate-related disasters, considering opportunities for managing risks at local to international scales. SREX was approved and accepted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 18 November 2011 in Kampala, Uganda.