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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451823203321

Autore

Hacker Jacob S

Titolo

Off center [[electronic resource] ] : the Republican revolution and the erosion of American democracy / / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-73078-5

9786611730789

0-300-13066-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PiersonPaul

Disciplina

324.2734/09/0511

Soggetti

Conservatism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Off center -- Partying with the "people's money" -- The off-center express -- The race to the base -- The Republican machine -- The center does not hold -- Conclusion: Meeting the challenge.

Sommario/riassunto

The Republicans who run American government today have defied the normal laws of political gravity. They have ruled with the slimmest of majorities and yet have transformed the nation's governing priorities. They have strayed dramatically from the moderate middle of public opinion and yet have faced little public backlash. Again and again, they have sided with the affluent and ideologically extreme while paying little heed to the broad majority of Americans. And much more often than not, they have come out on top. This book shows why-and why this troubling state of affairs can and must be changed.Written in a highly accessible style by two professional political scientists, Off Center tells the story of a deliberative process restricted and distorted by party chieftains, of unresponsive power brokers subverting the popular will, and of legislation written by and for powerful interests and deliberately designed to mute popular discontent. In the best tradition of engaged social science, Off Center is a powerful and informed critique that points the way toward a stronger foundation for American democracy.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483906903321

Titolo

Journal on Data Semantics VIII / / edited by Stefano Spaccapietra, Paolo Atzeni, Francois Fages, Mohand-Said Hacid, Michael Kifer, John Mylopoulos, Barbara Pernici, Pavel Shvaiko, Ilya Zaihrayeu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2007

ISBN

1-280-81695-3

9786610816958

3-540-70664-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Journal on Data Semantics ; ; 4380

Disciplina

401.430285

Soggetti

Data structures (Computer science)

Information theory

Database management

Information storage and retrieval systems

Artificial intelligence

Application software

Computer networks

Data Structures and Information Theory

Database Management

Information Storage and Retrieval

Artificial Intelligence

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004) -- Default Clustering with Conceptual Structures -- Workshop on Context and Ontologies: Theory,Practice and Applications (C&O 2005) -- Context Dependency Management in Ontology Engineering: A Formal Approach -- Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies -- Second International Conference on Ontologies,DataBases and



Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2005) -- GeRoMe: A Generic Role Based Metamodel for Model Management -- Metadata Management in a Multiversion Data Warehouse -- International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR 2005) -- SomeRDFS in the Semantic Web -- A Tool for Evaluating Ontology Alignment Strategies -- 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK 2005) -- Processing Sequential Patterns in Relational Databases.

Sommario/riassunto

• Semantic caching • Data warehousing and semantic data mining • Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics • Semantics in data visualization • Semantic services for mobile users • Supporting tools • Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues. Contributions submitted to the journal and dealing with semantics of data will be considered even if they are not from the topics in the list. While the physical appearance of the journal issues is like the books from the we- known Springer LNCS series, the mode of operation is that of a journal. Contributions can be freely submitted by authors and are reviewed by the Editorial Board. Contributions may also be invited, and nevertheless carefully reviewed, as in the case for issues that contain extended versions of best papers from major conferences addressing data semantics issues. Special issues, focusing on a specific topic, are coordinated by guest editors once the proposal for a special issue is accepted by the Editorial Board. Finally, it is also possible that a journal issue be devoted to a single text.