[PDF] Megs American Politics Quiz Book eBook

Author : Meghan a Faith
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781074737252

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Meg's American Politics Quiz Book has 2304 questions about hundreds of politicians, their activities, and their relatives too! If you are participating in or organizing a quiz fest, trivia contest, or game show about American history, this book is indispensable. Politics is all about numbers and dates they say. It's also a rollercoaster. We have had so many politicians over the decades that it's hard to remember who they were and what they did. These are men and women who have made America what it is today. This comprehensive book, written as a quiz book, teaches you interesting facts about almost every single one of them. Here are a few sample questions from the book: - Can you name the politician who received the Time Person of the Year award in the year 1971? Answer: Richard Nixon - In the year 2011, whom did Tom Corbett succeed as the Governor of Pennsylvania? Answer: Ed Rendell - In which year did Pierre Samuel du Pont IV become the Governor of Delaware? Answer: 1977

Author : Tom Trifonoff
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1669833739

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The Mega Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book is exactly as the title suggests-a book of 750 multiple choice questions on all things trivia. It gives the person who has no idea of the answer a 25% chance of guessing the correct choice. Most of the questions are in the easy to medium range because they are tailored for both adults and kids to answer. The first 500 questions in The Ultimate Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book follow the traditional topics of general knowledge, sport, history, science, geography, entertainment, maths, food and drink and current events, to name just a few. The remaining 250 questions deal with the more bizarre and eccentric topics in our world, and are more humorous in their subject matter. Again, these are not impossible to answer, and with a little bit of lateral thinking and a sense of humour, can be answered correctly. The Mega Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book is the first truly multiple choice format quiz and trivia book to be released. It will challenge and engage people to answer the questions-whether that is in a formal quiz setting or a more informal session of people just firing questions and the four choices to each other. This book can be used in the office, classroom, home or in the car as a way to challenge people and also to get people to enjoy a bit of brain stimulation. The Mega Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book is the ideal quiz and trivia book to be used in a variety of ways to engage people, young and not so young in all things trivia.

Author : Meg E. Rithmire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107117305

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This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.

Author : Lee Drutman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190913851

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American democracy is in deep crisis. But what do we do about it? That depends on how we understand the current threat.In Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop, Lee Drutman argues that we now have, for the first time in American history, a genuine two-party system, with two fully-sorted, truly national parties, divided over the character of the nation. And it's a disaster. It's a party system fundamentally at odds withour anti-majoritarian, compromise-oriented governing institutions. It threatens the very foundations of fairness and shared values on which our democracy depends.Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting-edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic and why the country is now trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare from which there is only one escape: increase the numberof parties through electoral reform. As he shows, American politics was once stable because the two parties held within them multiple factions, which made it possible to assemble flexible majorities and kept the climate of political combat from overheating. But as conservative Southern Democrats andliberal Northeastern Republicans disappeared, partisan conflict flattened and pulled apart. Once the parties became fully nationalized - a long-germinating process that culminated in 2010 - toxic partisanship took over completely. With the two parties divided over competing visions of nationalidentity, Democrats and Republicans no longer see each other as opponents, but as enemies. And the more the conflict escalates, the shakier our democracy feels.Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop makes a compelling case for large scale electoral reform - importantly, reform not requiring a constitutional amendment - that would give America more parties, making American democracy more representative, more responsive, and ultimately more stable.

Author : Ezra Klein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1476700397

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and how we are polarizing it—with disastrous results. “The American political system—which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president—is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.” “A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” (The New York Times Book Review), Why We’re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. “Well worth reading” (New York magazine), this is an “eye-opening” (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics—and perhaps at yourself.

Author : Meg Wolitzer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525533222

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A New York Times Bestseller “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle “Ultra-readable.” —Vogue From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be. To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer—madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place—feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined. Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.

Author : Arjen Boin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030726800

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This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logistical and political challenges of addressing a worst-case scenario that would prove the ultimate stress test for societies, governments, governing institutions and political leaders. It examines how governments and governing systems have (i) made sense of emerging transboundary threats that have spilled across health, economic, political and social systems (ii) mobilised systems of governance and often fearful and sceptical citizens (iii) crafted narratives amid high uncertainty about the virus and its impact and (iv) are working towards closure and a return to ‘normal’ when things can never quite be the same again. The book also offers the building blocks of pathways to future resilience. Succeeding and failing in all these realms is tied in with governance structures, experts, trust, leadership capabilities and political ideologies. The book appeals to anyone seeking to understand ‘what’s going on?’, but particularly academics and students across multiple disciplines, journalists, public officials, politicians, non-governmental organisations and citizen groups.

Author : Salena Zito
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1524763705

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A CNN political analyst and a Republican strategist reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS • “Unlike most retellings of the 2016 election, The Great Revolt provides a cohesive, non-wild-eyed argument about where the Republican Party could be headed.”—The Atlantic Political experts were wrong about the 2016 election and they continue to blow it, predicting the coming demise of the president without pausing to consider the durability of the winds that swept him into office. Salena Zito and Brad Todd have traveled over 27,000 miles of country roads to interview more than three hundred Trump voters in ten swing counties. What emerges is a portrait of a group of citizens who span job descriptions, income brackets, education levels, and party allegiances, united by their desire to be part of a movement larger than themselves. They want to put pragmatism before ideology and localism before globalism, and demand the respect they deserve from Washington. The 2016 election signaled a realignment in American politics that will outlast any one president. Zito and Todd reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next?

Author : Meg Jacobs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1400825822

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In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day , The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical research while offering bold claims about the tensions that have animated American public life. Revealing the fierce struggles that have taken place over the role of the federal government and the character of representative democracy, the authors trace the contested and dynamic evolution of the national polity. The contributors, who represent the leading new voices in the revitalized field of American political history, offer original interpretations of the nation's political past by blending methodological insights from the new institutionalism in the social sciences and studies of political culture. They tackle topics as wide-ranging as the role of personal character of political elites in the Early Republic, to the importance of courts in building a modern regulatory state, to the centrality of local political institutions in the late twentieth century. Placing these essays side by side encourages the asking of new questions about the forces that have shaped American politics over time. An unparalleled example of the new political history in action, this book will be vastly influential in the field. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Brian Balogh, Sven Beckert, Rebecca Edwards, Joanne B. Freeman, Richard R. John, Ira Katznelson, James T. Kloppenberg, Matthew D. Lassiter, Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael Vorenberg, and Michael Willrich.

Author : Meg Thacher
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635860962

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The sun, moon, stars, and planets have been a source of wonder and fascination for as long as humans have inhabited the earth. In Sky Gazing, a highly visual guide to observing the sky with the naked eye, kids aged 9–14 will delve into the science behind what they see, whether they live in a dark rural setting or under the bright lights of the city. Exploring astronomical objects and events, this captivating book takes young readers on a tour of our solar system and deep space beyond, with explanations of how objects like Earth’s moon were formed and the “why” behind phenomena such as eclipses, northern lights, and meteor showers. Curious sky gazers will discover how to find and observe planets — no binoculars or telescopes required! — and star charts will guide them in spotting constellations throughout the seasons and in both hemispheres while they learn about constellation myths from cultures around the world. Activities include tracking the cycles of the sun and moon and observing the sky during daylight hours or on a cloudy night, while astronomer profiles and sidebars on space technology and current issues such as light pollution help ground kids’ discoveries in the ancient and enduring science of studying the sky.