Author: David Trachtenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985555337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Lawgivers' Struggle explains how the U.S. Congress exercises its constitutional authorities to formulate and shape American national security policy, sometimes in support of administration priorities and sometimes in opposition to them. Drawing on the author's experiences as a congressional staffer working for the House Armed Services Committee, it describes the processes that Congress uses and the tools it has as its disposal to wield influence in national security decisions. The book illuminates the legislative process, explaining the "how" and "why" of congressional decision making. It describes the dynamic that characterizes the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government and the historical origins of the power struggle between the branches that continues to this day. The book serves as a valuable resource for students, government professionals, and everyday American citizens who wish to better understand how their government works"--
The Lawgivers' Struggle
Author: David Trachtenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985555337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Lawgivers' Struggle explains how the U.S. Congress exercises its constitutional authorities to formulate and shape American national security policy, sometimes in support of administration priorities and sometimes in opposition to them. Drawing on the author's experiences as a congressional staffer working for the House Armed Services Committee, it describes the processes that Congress uses and the tools it has as its disposal to wield influence in national security decisions. The book illuminates the legislative process, explaining the "how" and "why" of congressional decision making. It describes the dynamic that characterizes the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government and the historical origins of the power struggle between the branches that continues to this day. The book serves as a valuable resource for students, government professionals, and everyday American citizens who wish to better understand how their government works"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985555337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Lawgivers' Struggle explains how the U.S. Congress exercises its constitutional authorities to formulate and shape American national security policy, sometimes in support of administration priorities and sometimes in opposition to them. Drawing on the author's experiences as a congressional staffer working for the House Armed Services Committee, it describes the processes that Congress uses and the tools it has as its disposal to wield influence in national security decisions. The book illuminates the legislative process, explaining the "how" and "why" of congressional decision making. It describes the dynamic that characterizes the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government and the historical origins of the power struggle between the branches that continues to this day. The book serves as a valuable resource for students, government professionals, and everyday American citizens who wish to better understand how their government works"--
Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece
Author: James F. McGlew
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. In this richly insightful book, James F. McGlew examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Surveying a vast range of historical and literary sources, McGlew looks closely at discourse concerning Greek tyranny as well as at the nature of the tyrants' power and the constraints on power implicit in that discourse. Archaic tyrants, he shows, characteristically represented themselves as agents of justice. Taking their self-representation not as an ideological veil concealing the nature of tyranny but as its conceptual definition, he attempts to show that, although the language of reform gave tyrants unprecedented political freedom, it also marked their powers as temporary. Tyranny took shape, McGlew maintains, through discursive complicity between the tyrant and his subjects, who presumably accepted his self-definition but also learned from him the language and methods of resistance. The tyrant's subjects learned to resist him as they learned to obey him, but when they rejected him they did so in such a way as to preserve for themselves the distinctive political freedoms that he enjoyed. Providing a new framework for understanding ancient tyranny, this book will be read with great interest by classicists, political scientists, and ancient and modern historians alike.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. In this richly insightful book, James F. McGlew examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Surveying a vast range of historical and literary sources, McGlew looks closely at discourse concerning Greek tyranny as well as at the nature of the tyrants' power and the constraints on power implicit in that discourse. Archaic tyrants, he shows, characteristically represented themselves as agents of justice. Taking their self-representation not as an ideological veil concealing the nature of tyranny but as its conceptual definition, he attempts to show that, although the language of reform gave tyrants unprecedented political freedom, it also marked their powers as temporary. Tyranny took shape, McGlew maintains, through discursive complicity between the tyrant and his subjects, who presumably accepted his self-definition but also learned from him the language and methods of resistance. The tyrant's subjects learned to resist him as they learned to obey him, but when they rejected him they did so in such a way as to preserve for themselves the distinctive political freedoms that he enjoyed. Providing a new framework for understanding ancient tyranny, this book will be read with great interest by classicists, political scientists, and ancient and modern historians alike.
The Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty
Author: Edward Bean Underhill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Military Thought
Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Social Struggles in Archaic Rome
Author: Kurt A. Raaflaub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405148896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction. Analyzes social conflicts between patricians and plebeians in early republican Rome Includes chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic illuminating social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects as well as the reliability of historical sources Contributors have written addenda for the new edition, updating their chapters in light of recent scholarship
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405148896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction. Analyzes social conflicts between patricians and plebeians in early republican Rome Includes chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic illuminating social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects as well as the reliability of historical sources Contributors have written addenda for the new edition, updating their chapters in light of recent scholarship
The Man of the Renaissance
Author: Ralph Roeder
Publisher:
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Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Bankers' Magazine and State Financial Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Bankers Magazine
Author:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Inventing The Public Sphere
Author: Leidulf Melve
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Based on an analysis of the most important polemics of the Investiture Contest, this book outlines the characteristics of the public sphere during the Contest and how these characteristics relate to the particular arguments used by the polemical writers.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Based on an analysis of the most important polemics of the Investiture Contest, this book outlines the characteristics of the public sphere during the Contest and how these characteristics relate to the particular arguments used by the polemical writers.