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The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, [1] or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation. [2]
The book derives its name from an August 15, 1896 editorial by William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette, [1] in which he took Populist leaders to task for letting Kansas slip into economic stagnation and not keeping up economically with neighboring states because of Populist policies chasing away economic capital from the state.
Frank was a College Republican, attending campus meetings at the University of Kansas, but became highly critical of conservatism.He summarized the thesis of his 2008 book The Wrecking Crew as "[b]ad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."
One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead, Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the ...
The politics-administration dichotomy is a theory that constructs the boundaries of public administration and asserts the normative relationship between elected officials and administrators in a democratic society. [1] The phrase politics-administration dichotomy was first found in public administration literature from the 1940s. [2]
The book defines "democratic" as alignment with the principle of one person, one vote, also known as majority rule. It praises the Framers of the Constitution as "men of exceptional talent and virtue" (p. 7) who made admirable progress in the creation of their republican government. However, it also points out that innovation and change in ...
National Security and Double Government is a 2014 book by Michael J. Glennon, professor of international law at Tufts University. [1] Glennon argues that democracy in the United States has trended towards mere symbolism, as the Constitution and the rule of law have been eroded by national security concerns and unelected bureaucrats.
It is the top 1% that have pulled away from the top 20%, and most especially "the top 0.1% or even 0.01%" that has grown richer than the rest of the population. [11] Share of pre-tax household income received by the top 1%, top 0.1% and top 0.01%, between 1917 and 2005 [12] [13]