Shadow Of The Coalition

Author : Jamie A. Waters
Publisher : Hidden Realms Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780999664759

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Shadow of the Coalition by Jamie A. Waters Pdf

Only in the darkness can vengeance thrive… It's been a month since Kayla, a headstrong ruin rat, and Carl, an OmniLab trader, returned to the surface. After she helped to restore control of the towers to those who would look after the best interests of the people, she'd found herself irrevocably bonded to Alec, the new co-leader of the High Council. Although her heart belongs to Carl, she finds it difficult to resist the strange bond between her and Alec. Caught between learning how to handle her new emerging abilities, mysterious earthquakes, and a strange group seemingly intent on targeting OmniLab, Kayla is once again swept up in events that threaten to change the entire future of the towers. Beneath the Fallen City is an exciting post-apocalyptic fantasy series with romantic elements and shocking twists. Join Kayla as she unearths the secrets of the past and discovers a hidden world no one thought was possible. This series features a love-triangle with two very different, swoon-worthy men who represent different aspects of this futuristic world. Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games, Divergent, or The Mortal Instruments--or anyone who likes a little spice when the world goes to hell. Enjoy!

Author : Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191619465

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Parliaments and Coalitions by Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg Pdf

Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies. Because these governments are comprised of multiple political parties, they are subject to tensions that are largely absent under single-party government. The pressures of electoral competition and the necessity of delegating substantial authority to ministers affiliated with specific parties threaten the compromise agreements that are at the heart of coalition governance. The central argument of this book is that strong legislative institutions play a critical role in allowing parties to deal with these tensions and to enforce coalition bargains. Based on an analysis of roughly 1,300 government bills across five democracies (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands), the book paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments. Two central contributions emerge. First, the book forces a reconsideration of the common perception that legislatures are largely irrelevant institutions in European democracies. The data presented here make a compelling case that parliaments that feature strong committee systems play an influential role in shaping policy. Second, the book contributes to the field of coalition governance. While scholars have developed detailed accounts of the birth and death of coalitions, much less is known about the manner in which coalitions govern between these bookend events. Parliaments and Coalitions contributes to a richer understanding of how multiparty governments make policy. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

Author : Gerd Theissen
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334047896

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The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen Pdf

Combining New Testament study with the terseness of thriller writing, Theissen conveys the Gospel story in the imaginative prose of a novel. This is a story of our times, or how the gospels might have turned out if they were written by John Le Carre: racy, readable and full of incident.

Author : Jamie a. Waters
Publisher : MuseItUp Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771278226

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Shadow of the Coalition: The Two Towers Series by Jamie a. Waters Pdf

What's stronger? Free will or fate? It's been a month since Kayla, a headstrong ruin rat, and Carl, an OmniLab trader, returned to the surface. After she helped to restore control of the towers to those who would look after the best interests of the people, she'd found herself irrevocably bonded to Alec, the new co-leader of the High Council. Although her heart belongs to Carl, she finds it difficult to resist the strange bond between her and Alec. Caught between learning how to handle her new emerging abilities, mysterious earthquakes, and a strange group seemingly intent on targeting OmniLab, Kayla and Carl are once again swept up in events that threaten to change the entire future of the towers.

Author : Darren Hollinshead
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446163146

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Memoir of Shadows Redemption by Darren Hollinshead Pdf

The final chapter of the survivors story, they face the end knowing what comes. They continue forward regardless of the wreckage they leave behind. The war they started reaches desperate times.They must now not only rally each other but the entire galaxy. Their journey during this eventually leads them to their ending. They realise that not all stories have a happy ending. Every story has an ending, this is there's.

Author : Anne Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635573206

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Shadow Network by Anne Nelson Pdf

“Reveals a political trend that threatens both our form of government and our species.” - Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY "Riveting.... Want to understand how so many Americans turned against truth? Read this book." Nancy Maclean, author of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Kellyanne Conway, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos and Mercer families today. In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data - outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided. In a time of stark and growing threats to our most valued institutions and democratic freedoms, Shadow Network is essential reading.

Author : Torbjörn Bergman,Gabriella Ilonszki,Wolfgang C. Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198844372

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Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe by Torbjörn Bergman,Gabriella Ilonszki,Wolfgang C. Müller Pdf

Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politics has been focused on Western Europe. Coalition governance in Central Eastern Europe brings the study of the full coalition life-cycle to a region that has undergone tremendous political transformation, but which has not been studied from this perspective. The volume covers Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It provides information and analyses of the coalition life-cycle, from pre-electoral alliances to coalition formation and portfolio distribution, governing in coalitions, the stages that eventually lead to government termination, and the electoral performance of coalition parties. In Central Eastern Europe, few single-party cabinets form and there have been only a few early elections. The evidence provided shows that coalition partners in the region write formal agreements (coalition agreements) to an extent that is similar to the patterns that we find in Western Europe, but also that they adhere less closely to these contracts. While the research on Western Europe tends to stress that coalition partners emphasize coalition compromise and mutual supervision, there is more evidence of 'ministerial government' by individual ministers and their parties. There are also some systems where coalition governance is heavily dominated by the prime minister. No previous study has covered the full coalition life-cycle in all of the ten countries with as much detail. Systematic information is presented in 10 figures and in more than one hundred tables. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.

Author : Shane Martin,Thomas Saalfeld,Kaare W. Strøm
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191019074

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The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies by Shane Martin,Thomas Saalfeld,Kaare W. Strøm Pdf

Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these ancient assemblies, established in pre-democratic times, survived the transition to mass democracies? How have they adapted? How do they structure such processes as budgeting, legislation, and executive oversight? How do their members get selected, and what consequences flow from differences in these rules? What roles do committees and political parties play in contemporary legislatures? What functions do legislatures perform in autocratic, semi-democratic or recently democratized societies? What explains the similarities and differences in legislative rules, powers and recruitment? What are the policy and other consequences of variation in how legislatures are organized and function? The 33 chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by 47 of the most distinguished legislative scholars, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description and assessment of the state of the art in legislative studies. Key themes explored include theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches to the study of legislatures, representation and legislative careers, internal organization, the role of parties within legislatures and the role of legislatures in policy making and accountability. The Handbook also explores the emergence of parliaments in historical and contemporary contexts, including new democracies and trans-national institutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Occupations
ISBN : MINN:30000010824419

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Occupational Outlook Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kaare Strøm,Wolfgang C. Müller,Torbjörn Bergman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131799749

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Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining by Kaare Strøm,Wolfgang C. Müller,Torbjörn Bergman Pdf

This analysis of coalition politics in Western Europe is based on the most comprehensive data set ever employed in coalition studies exploring both coalitional and single-party countries and governments.

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617190

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White Robes and Burning Crosses by Michael Newton Pdf

With its fiery crosses and nightriders in pointed hoods and flowing robes, the Ku Klux Klan remains a recurring nightmare in American life. What began in the earliest post–Civil War days as a social group engaging in drunken hijinks at the expense of perceived inferiors soon turned into a murderous paramilitary organization determined to resist the “evils” of radical Reconstruction. For six generations and counting, the Klan has inflicted misery and death on countless victims nationwide and since the early 1920s, has expanded into distant corners of the globe. From the Klan’s post–Civil War lynchings in support of Jim Crow laws, to its bloody stand against desegregation during the 1960s, to its continued violence in the militia movement at the turn of the 21st century, this revealing volume chronicles the complete history of the world’s oldest surviving terrorist organization from 1866 to the present. The story is told without embellishment because, as this work demonstrates, the truth about the Ku Klux Klan is grim enough.

Author : Guihai Chen,Yi Pan,Minyi Guo,Jian Lu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540321156

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications - ISPA 2005 Workshops by Guihai Chen,Yi Pan,Minyi Guo,Jian Lu Pdf

Author : Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489113

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In the Shadow of 'just Wars' by Médecins sans frontières (Association) Pdf

Essays written by scholars, journalists and humanitarian relief workers look at humanitarian crises of the past five years for their successes and failures, and suggest that humanitarian action has often failed to live up to its ideals. These essays expose the shortcomings of the various humanitarian organizations, particularly the U.N., and illuminate the complex moral and political debate that surrounds even the most basic relief operations.

Author : Mariz Tadros
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815653752

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Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt by Mariz Tadros Pdf

On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds—urban and rural, working class and upper class—came out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the country’s history. The demonstrators gathered as citizens and likewise as women demanding social change and the right to gender equality. The size and impact of that uprising underscore the vital importance of women activists to what became known as the Arab Spring. In Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt, Tadros charts the arc of the Egyptian women’s movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. She explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women’s status in Egyptian society and politics. Parsing the factors that contribute to the success and failure of activist movements, Tadros provides valuable insight on sustaining social change and a vitally important perspective on women’s evolving status in a contemporary authoritarian context.

Author : Nicholas Cheeseman,Eloïse Bertrand,Sa'eed Husaini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192524829

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A Dictionary of African Politics by Nicholas Cheeseman,Eloïse Bertrand,Sa'eed Husaini Pdf

With over 400 A-Z entries, this new dictionary provides clear and authoritative definitions of terms within the fast-growing field of African Politics. It includes coverage on elections, parties and judiciaries, but also popular protest, gender-relations, the politics of development, and Africa's international relations. Entries comprise of major events and figures within African Politics, including the East African Community and independance, as well as covering key terms of particular relevance to Africa such as neopatrimonialism, queue voting, and post-conflict power sharing. Written by a world-leading political scientist working on the area of African politics, this dictionary is an essential guide for both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics, journalists, and researchers working on African politics alike.