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  • TAX-FUNDED POLITICS
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    TAX-FUNDED POLITICS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    "The past two decades have seen the growth of well-coordinated networks of political activists who have managed to obtain hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars for political lobbying. Although federal regulations prohibit such activities, loopholes in the law allow these monies to be masked as private resources. State and federal taxpayers, monies fund the lobbying efforts...

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  • WHAT DO UNIONS DO?
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    WHAT DO UNIONS DO?
    JAMES T. BENNETT / BRUCE E. KAUFMAN
    One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions, and a provocative conclusion that unions are on...

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  • HOMELAND SECURITY SCAMS
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    HOMELAND SECURITY SCAMS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    A direct consequence of the War on Terror launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001 is an awareness of the need for homeland security. This war is being used to justify a huge expansion of government powers and spending, but funds allocated for homeland security are often for programs far removed from anything that might be termed defense or security. In Homeland Securit...

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  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORLD OF WORK
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    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORLD OF WORK
    DAPHNE GOTTLIEB TARAS / JAMES T. BENNETT / ANTHONY M. TOWNSEND
    Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social...

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  • CORPORATE WELFARE
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    CORPORATE WELFARE
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of government aid, known as "corporate welfare," is still around today. After establishing it...

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  • PAID PATRIOTISM?
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    PAID PATRIOTISM?
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude, esteem, land grants, medical care, pensions, higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid, should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those...

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  • THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATES
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    THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATES
    JAMES T. BENNETT / BRUCE E. KAUFMAN
    A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union. ...

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  • CORPORATE WELFARE
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    CORPORATE WELFARE
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of government aid, known as "corporate welfare," is still around today. After establishing it...

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  • SUBSIDIZING CULTURE
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    SUBSIDIZING CULTURE
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the ar...

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  • SUBSIDIZING CULTURE
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    SUBSIDIZING CULTURE
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the ar...

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  • MANDATE MADNESS
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    MANDATE MADNESS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties pr...

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  • MANDATE MADNESS
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    MANDATE MADNESS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties pr...

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