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  Filipino Politician The: How To...

  A.A. Castor

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  In a political landscape defined by patronage, personality, and pageantry, The Filipino Politician: How To Become A Typical Trapo Politician In The Philippines cuts through the rhetoric to reveal the tactics that keep traditional politicians—"trapos"—in power. Whether you're an aspiring local leader, a community organizer, or simply curious about how influence is really brokered, this book offers a pragmatic blueprint grounded in Philippine realities. From barangay halls to national capitols, discover how seasoned trapos build loyalty, neutralize rivals, and shape public opinion. 
  Inside, you'll explore ten in‑depth chapters packed with concrete strategies:Designing Patronage Machines that bind constituents through targeted appointments and contracts.Mastering Media Narratives with rapid‑response spin, social‑media micro‑targeting, and smear tactics.Legal and Bureaucratic Neutralization via audits, red‑tape maneuvers, and regulatory leverage.Crisis Exploitation—turning typhoons, scandals, and pandemics into political capital. 
  You'll also learn the subtle arts of public posturing vs. private deals—projecting fierce nationalism while courting foreign investment behind closed doors—and strategic non‑alignment, playing great powers off one another for maximum aid and loans. Harness the psychology of unpredictability to keep allies hopeful and adversaries on edge, and employ symbolism and pageantry—uniforms, rituals, and ceremonies—to reinforce authority and unity. 
   

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  Race Rights and Rifles - The...

  Alexandra Filindra

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  An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. 
   
   
   
  One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million people—own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Frilindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary evidence, Race, Rights, and Rifles traces how this ideology emerged during the Revolution and became embedded in America's institutions, from state militias to the National Rifle Association (NRA). Utilizing original survey data, Filindra reveals how many white Americans—including those outside of the NRA's direct orbit—embrace these beliefs, and as a result, they are more likely than other Americans to value gun rights over voting rights, embrace antidemocratic norms, and justify political violence.

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  The Illusory Bargain - Liberty...

  Ralph H. Lehman

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  Out-of-control debt. Populism. Political vitriol and corruption. Where did America go wrong? Or rather, when did America go wrong?
  
  1913. The Seventeenth Amendment is ratified, allowing the people of America to vote directly for their senators in the US senate. The same year, the Federal Reserve Act is passed, establishing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. In The Illusory Bargain, Ralph H. Lehman demonstrates that these seemingly empowering and people-serving pieces of legislature were just that-an illusion. Tracing the vision of the Founding Fathers as outlined in The Federalist Papers, Lehman reveals how the safety features of the original constitutional framework have eroded since and given way to rampant abuse of power and arbitrary, tyrannical law.
  
  Through fresh, historically informed insights and over twenty years of financial expertise, Lehman reexamines the nation's fundamental values and proposes what may be the only course of action left to restore our liberty.

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  The Integration Policies of...

  Victoria Leukavets

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  Leukavets applies here Putnam’s two-level game-theoretical approach in combination with findings from Europeanization literature and democracy promotion studies.

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  Our Common Cause - Establishing...

  Étienne Chouard

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  I want to talk to you about democracy. The real one. The one that does not exist, and the one we really need today. My research method is that of Hippocrates, who said, look for the cause of causes. In other words, to cure a disease, to solve a problem, it is useless to attack the consequences, it is useless to attack the different causes. There is always a determining cause (the one that determines all the others)—and that is our common cause.
  The first decisive battle is to push the important words "right side up":
  First. I am not a "citizen" (a citizen is autonomous; he votes himself his laws). I am only a "voter;" that is to say, a political child—because I am subject to the law voted into existence by someone other than me.
  Second. My "parents" in politics, the elected officials, do not want me to emancipate myself from them—they do not allow me to vote for or against the laws to which I have to submit myself.
  We are "the incompetents." They treat us like children. But it is our fault, because children also believe in "Santa Claus," and so voters believe in "universal suffrage," which we accept to call "democracy" (demos kratos, power belongs to the people). The so-called modern "democracy".

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  Federal Secrets: Unlocking...

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  Federal Secrets: Unlocking Jekyll's Hidden Powers 
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