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The Poverty of the Poverty Rate: Measure and Mismeasure of Material Deprivation in Modern America מאת Nicholas Eberstadt Eberstadt charges that the official US poverty rate is a broken compass a flawed index generating increasingly misleading numbers about poverty trends in the United States. The poverty rate should be replaced by a more accurate index (or indices) for describing material deprivation in modern Americ...

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Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story מאת L. Lynne Kiesling Texas, alone among the states, has moved forward into a truly restructured electricity era. Texas's success is due to three factors: a competitive vision and the political leadership to carry it through; an institutional design whose transparent rules enable decentralized coordination; and ongoing r...

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Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power מאת Thomas Donnelly The small size of America's land forces has been, and for years to come will remain, the tightest constraint on U.S. military strategy. The cutbacks of the Clinton years and, following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration's failure to foresee the need for larger ground forces ...

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Voting Rights--and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections מאת Abigail Thernstrom In Voting Rights-and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections, Abigail Thernstrom explores the complex issues raised by the Voting Rights Act today. Thernstrom celebrates the landmark 1965 law that opened southern voting booths to African Americans-while challenging its evolution into a...

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Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health מאת Nicholas Eberstadt Examines the region's demographic challenges, the curious new phenomenon of the underworked European, and policies that stand in the way of the region benefiting from its health advantage....

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Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform מאת Peter J. Wallison Every federal campaign finance reform law enacted since 1971--ostensibly intended to keep politicians honest and limit the influence of contributors--has in reality protected incumbents by reducing the funds available to challengers. Although the courts have struck down many of the most egregious in...

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Making a Killing: The Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade מאת Roger Bate Making a Killing: The Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade champions greater cooperation between wealthy and poor nations to quash the trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Bate calls for fortified policing resources, harsher penalties for counterfeiters, widespread public education, an...

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The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reform מאת Robert Maranto Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is no...

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Voting Rights--and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections מאת Abigail Thernstrom In Voting Rights-and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections, Abigail Thernstrom explores the complex issues raised by the Voting Rights Act today. Thernstrom celebrates the landmark 1965 law that opened southern voting booths to African Americans-while challenging its evolution into a...

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Character and Cops, Fifth Edition: Ethics in Policing, Fifth Edition מאת Edwin J. Delattre An extensively revised edition of the bible of police training in ethics....

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When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors מאת Sally Satel Today, more than 78,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant. What can be done to solve the kidney crisis? Compensate organ donors for their remarkable gifts. This book explores the key ethical, theoretical, and practical concerns of a government-regulated donor compensation system. It is the ...

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Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge: Lesson from the FEHBP (Aei Studies on Medicare Reform) מאת Walton Francis The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) is nearing a half-century of quiet but distinguished performance as arguably the most effective government insurance program in history. FEHBP's success recommends it as a model not only for Medicare and other existing government programs, but al...

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Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform מאת Peter J. Wallison Campaign finance laws essentially prohibit political parties from fundraising on behalf of individual candidates, forcing candidates to finance campaigns independently. This system favors wealthy candidates and protects incumbents while discouraging challengers. In Better Candidates, Better Parties,...

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Citizenship in America and Europe: Beyond the Nation-State? מאת Michael S. Greve In the United States, defining what it means to be a citizen is central to discourse about immigration, naturalization, and identity politics. Although the concept of European citizenship is more tenuous, European countries wrestle with equally profound questions. Can European citizenship be constru...

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U.S. Vaccine Markets: Overview and Four Case Studies מאת Ernest R. Berndt There is intense interest among scholars and the public in questions related to the risks, benefits, and pricing of pharmaceuticals--but relatively little attention has been devoted to vaccine markets and the political, economic, and regulatory factors that influence their development. This importan...

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The Science on Women and Science מאת Christina Hoff Sommers Are women victims of a widespread bias in science and engineering, as a 2007 report of the National Academy of Sciences concluded? Or are there other, more plausible explanations for the paucity of women in various quantitative fields? What, if anything, should be done to encourage more women to bec...