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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * The number of white Americans identifying with the Democratic Party collapsed during Barack Obama's presidency. In 2009, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of Democrats were white. Today, only 56 percent of...
- 2From:AEI Paper & StudiesI come from a family of educators and education reformers, and I know from watching them how devotion to education can test one's moral resolve. After all, the rewards in educational endeavors are by their nature not...
- 3From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * Many progressives believe the Constitution urgently needs reform to secure democracy, responsibility, and other values. * A conservative case for the Constitution must defend it as an instrument of...
- 4From:AEI Paper & StudiesPreface It is easy to forget the broader context in which public policy is placed. So much attention is paid to the means by which policy is conceived and implemented--politics--that it is easy to focus on the game...
- 5From:AEI Paper & StudiesEdmund Burke's Economics of Flourishing YUVAL LEVIN Ethics and Public Policy Center The deep links between human flourishing and economic liberty are both vitally important and terribly underappreciated. Under...
- 6From:AEI Paper & StudiesIn all 2016 contests thus far where entrance or exit polls were taken, higher percentages of voters in Democratic contests identified as liberal than in 2008. The share of voters in Republican contests identifying as...
- 7From:Background NotesOfficial Name: Republic of Lithuania PROFILE Geography Area: 65,200 sq. km. (26,080 sq. mi.); slightly larger than West Virginia. Cities (2008): Capital--Vilnius (pop. 542,809); other cities--Kaunas...
- 8From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)A descriptive term for persons, policies, and beliefs associated with liberalism....
- 9From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Born into a tavern-owning family in a rough Polish neighborhood in the northwestern part of Chicago, Mike Royko (1932-1997) became one of America's premier political and social commentators. In...
- 10From:AEI Paper & StudiesIntroduction It is widely accepted that some form of civic education is necessary to sustain America's liberal-democratic regime and the freedoms Americans enjoy. However, when we get to specifics about what a civic...
- 11From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Edward I. Koch (born 1924) was one of New York City's most controversial mayors. He led the city from the edge of bankruptcy in 1978 to a substantial budget surplus in 1983. Edward I. Koch was...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) was a prominent American historian and social critic. Beginning in the 1960s and continuing into the 1990s his writings defined the role of the intellectual and...
- 13From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY John Paul Stevens (born 1920), appointed to the Supreme Court by President Gerald Ford in 1975, became a member of the "liberal" voting group on the Court which included Justices William J. Brennan...
- 14From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Democrat Tom Foley (born 1929) was swept out of office in 1994 in an election many Republicans referred to as a "Republican Revolution." Foley...
- 15From:Background NotesOfficial Name: Kingdom of Belgium PROFILE Geography Area: 32,547 square kilometers (12,566 sq. mi.), about the size of Maryland. Cities: Capital--Brussels (pop. 1,031,215). Other cities--Antwerp (466,203);...
- 16From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Italian journalist, novelist, and historian Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) devoted his life and his writings to the cause of liberalism. Guglielmo Ferrero was born in Portica, Piedmont, on...
- 17From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Russian historian and statesman Pavel Nikolayevich Miliukov (1859-1943) supported the Westernization and modernization of Russia while criticizing the ruthlessness and authoritarianism of its...
- 18From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)A descriptive term for an individual or a political faction that advocates liberal, radical, or even revolutionary policies, usually in favor of overcoming social inequalities. In the United States, left-wing groups...
- 19From:Yearbook of European LawAuthor(s): Daniel Wilsher [*] Author Affiliation(s): [*] City University, London DOI: 10.1093/yel/21.1.163...
- 20From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The English sociologist and philosopher Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864-1929), one of the major theoreticians of liberalism in England before World War I, advocated a modified form of state...