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A Unified Theory of Party Competition

A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors

By: James F. Adams,Samuel Merrill III,Bernard Grofman

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A Unified Theory of Party Competition

A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors

By: James F. Adams,Samuel Merrill III,Bernard Grofman

This book integrates spatial and behavioral perspectives - in a word, those of the Rochester and Michigan schools - into a unified theory of voter choice and party strategy. The theory encompasses both policy and non-policy factors, effects of turnout, voter discounting of party promises, expectations of coalition governments, and party motivations based on policy as well as office. Optimal (Nash equilibrium) strategies are determined for alternative models for presidential elections in the US and France, and for parliamentary elections in Britain and Norway. These polities cover a wide range of electoral rules, number of major parties, and governmental structures. The analyses suggest that the more competitive parties generally take policy positions that come close to maximizing their electoral support, and that these vote-maximizing positions correlate strongly with the mean policy positions of their supporters.

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344

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Cambridge University Press

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113944400X

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9781139444002

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Breaking the Bismarcks barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Breaking the Bismarcks barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

Volume 6: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944 tracks the Allies' entrance into the offensive phase of the Pacific war. Having gained crucial victories at Midway and Guadalcanal, Allied forces committed substantially increased resources to breaking the Bismarcks barrier, a formidable net of Japanese air and naval bases stretching from the central Solomons to New Guinea, controlling all shipping between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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532

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069978

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9780252069970

A Third Face

My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking

By: Samuel Fuller

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A Third Face

My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking

By: Samuel Fuller

(Applause Books). Winner of Best Non-Fiction for 2002 Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Review! Samuel Fuller was one of the most prolific and independent writer-director-producers in Hollywood. His 29 tough, gritty films made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences. His film Park Row was inspired by his years in the New York newspaper business, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions and race riots. He writes about hitchhiking across the country at the height of the Great Depression. His years in the army in World War II are captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One , The Steel Helmet and Merrill's Marauders . Fuller's other films include Pickup on South Street ; Underworld U.S.A. , a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were seen as "respected" tax-paying executives; Shock Corridor , which exposed the conditions in mental institutions; and White Dog , written in collaboration with Curtis Hanson ( L.A. Confidential ), a film so controversial that Paramount's then studio heads Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner refused to release it. In addition to his work in film, Samuel Fuller (1911-1997) wrote eleven novels. He lived in Los Angeles with his wife and their daughter. A Third Face was completed by Jerome Henry Rudes, Fuller's longtime friend, and his wife, Christa Lang Fuller. "Fuller wasn't one for tactful understatement and his hot-blooded, incident-packed autobiography is accordingly blunt ... A Third Face is a grand, lively, rambunctious memoir." Janet Maslin, The New York Times ; "Fuller's last work is a joy and an important addition to film and popular culture literature." Publishers Weekly ; "If you don't like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don't like cinema." Martin Scorsese, from the book's introduction

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612

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557836272

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9781557836274

Competition in the Investment Banking Industry

By: Samuel L. Hayes,Andrew Michael Spence,David Van Praag Marks

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Competition in the Investment Banking Industry

By: Samuel L. Hayes,Andrew Michael Spence,David Van Praag Marks

Investment banks play a critically important role in channeling capital from investors to corporations. Not only do they float and distribute new corporate securities, they also assist companies in the private placement of securities, arrange mergers and acquisitions, devise specialized financing, and provide other corporate financial services. After sketching the history and evolution of investment banking, the authors describe the structure of the industry, focusing on the competitive forces at work within it today. They explore patterns of concentration and analyze the strategic and economic factors that underlie those patterns. The authors directly examine the pairing up of investment banks with their corporate clients. They show that the market is sharply segmented, with banks and corporate clients being matched in roughly rank order, the most prestigious banks with the largest, most powerful clients, and so on. Vigorous competition occurs within each segment, but much less between them. With the industry now confronting a changing regulatory environment, a growing tendency of clients to arrange their own financing, and increasing competition both from within and from commercial banks and foreign institutions, Competition in the Investment Banking Industry is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of investment banking.

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Harvard University Press

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0674154150

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9780674154155

Understanding Criminal Evidence

By: Samuel P. Newton,Teresa L. Welch

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Understanding Criminal Evidence

By: Samuel P. Newton,Teresa L. Welch

Understanding Criminal Evidence is a carefully designed undergraduate text featuring a case-method approach and focused solely on criminal evidence. Learning the rules from case analysis allows students to apply the material to real world situations, fostering an understanding of the Rules of Evidence. Solid pedagogy makes the material more accessible than a traditional law school casebook text and features end-of-chapter review questions and key terms. Each chapter has a major introductory case that highlights the evidentiary issues. Several sub-cases in chap every chapter illustrate the ramifications of the rules. Trial transcripts and real world problems help students apply the rules to real situations they may face in practice. Features: Case-method approach to criminal evidence Case analysis methodology students apply the rules to the real world and to real life Features a traditional approach material designed specifically for undergraduates focused solely on criminal evidence Sound pedagogy end-of-chapter review questions key terms material more accessible than a traditional law school casebooks Cases in each chapter one major introductory case highlighting evidentiary issues several sub-cases illustrating ramifications of the rules Trial transcripts and real world problems help students apply the rules

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Aspen Publishing

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1454833629

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9781454833628

Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

By: J. Samuel Walker

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Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

By: J. Samuel Walker

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research--mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available--that provides fresh insight on the strategic considerations that led to dropping the bomb. From the debate about whether to invade or continue the conventional bombing of Japan to Tokyo's agonizing deliberations over surrender and the effects of both low- and high-level radiation exposure, Walker continues to shed light on one of the most earthshaking moments in history. Rising above an often polemical debate, the third edition presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and new research to help make sense of the events that ushered in the atomic age.

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UNC Press Books

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1469628988

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9781469628981

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

Supplement and General Index

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

Supplement and General Index

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

Volume 15: Supplement and General Index, chronicles the postwar operations of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific: the surrender of outlying Japanese garrisons, the occupation of Japan, minesweeping approaches to Japanese ports, and Operation Magic Carpet for the return of armed forces to the United States. This volume features a descriptive list of all named ships of the U.S. Navy during World War II, all types of landing, beaching, and other "lettered" craft, and types of aircraft used by the navy during the war. It also includes a list of errata and a general index to volumes 1-14.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252070666

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9780252070662

Spalding Memorial

By: Samuel Spalding

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Spalding Memorial

By: Samuel Spalding

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382182270

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9783382182274

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A Unified Theory of Party Competition

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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Breaking the Bismarcks barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944

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A Third Face

A Third Face

Competition in the Investment Banking Industry

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Understanding Criminal Evidence

Understanding Criminal Evidence

Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

Spalding Memorial

Spalding Memorial

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