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Rebranding America : The Occidental Strategy, Derek Shearer
Rebranding America : The Occidental Strategy, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
No abstract provided.
The Big Store, Derek Shearer
The Big Store, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer reviews the book "A Future Perfect: The Essentials of Globalization" by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.
Citizen Participation In Local Government: The Case Of Santa Monica, California., Derek Shearer
Citizen Participation In Local Government: The Case Of Santa Monica, California., Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Discusses the methods, policies, and experiences of a rent-control coalition government in Santa Monica, California, in implementing a true participatory democracy at the local municipal level.
Planning With A Political Face., Derek Shearer
Planning With A Political Face., Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Comments on the 1984 Presidential campaign in the United States. People who are in support of President Ronald Reagan's policies; Response of Democrats to Reagan's ideological attack on the social programs that originated with the New Deal; Drawbacks of the industrial policy that the Democrats may endorse as their alternatives to Reagan's policies.
A New Social Contract : The Economy And Government After Reagan, Derek Shearer, Martin Carnoy, Russell Rumberger
A New Social Contract : The Economy And Government After Reagan, Derek Shearer, Martin Carnoy, Russell Rumberger
Derek Shearer
No abstract provided.
Santa Monica, Derek Shearer
Santa Monica, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Santa Monica, California — a city with a population of 88000 located in the greater Los Angeles region — is currently involved in a comprehensive replanning of the city's future land use to the year 2000. The process that the city has embarked upon is designed to be participatory and democratic rather than bureaucratic and autocratic. Because of political conditions in the city and the widespread conservative attack on government championed by President Reagan, Santa Monica's planning effort is highly controversial.
Planning And The New Urban Populism: The Case Of Santa Monica, California, Derek Shearer
Planning And The New Urban Populism: The Case Of Santa Monica, California, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Just as Justice Brandeis viewed states as laboratories of social experimentation, so can citites serve as working models of dif ferent urban policies.
Wrong Time, Wrong Race., Derek Shearer
Wrong Time, Wrong Race., Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Discusses the political strategy of the Citizens' Party in the U.S. Arguments against a third-party Presidential strategy; Party's lack of base-building strategy; Arguments against the Party's move for a presidential race.
For The Ufw, A Bad Day At The Polls: But Does It Matter?, Derek Shearer
For The Ufw, A Bad Day At The Polls: But Does It Matter?, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Discusses Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union's loss of the Proposition 14 (1976) initiative in California. Considers corporate agriculture's opposition (1975-76) to the measure that would have compelled growers to allow union organizers in their fields.
State Business, Derek Shearer
State Business, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Discusses businesses owned and run by state governments, notably insurance and banking, showing how properly structured state businesses can increase state revenue without adding to taxation.
Dreams And Schemes: A Catalogue Of Proposals, Derek Shearer
Dreams And Schemes: A Catalogue Of Proposals, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Explores current legislative ideas for tax reform, full employment, controlling corporations and economic planning.
Reader On Alternative Public Policies, Derek Shearer, Lee Webb
Reader On Alternative Public Policies, Derek Shearer, Lee Webb
Derek Shearer
Prepared for the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies, Madison, Wis., 1975.
Automated War, Derek Shearer
Automated War, Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Focuses on the increasing automation of the United States' military operations in Vietnam. Expected improvement in the efficiency of destruction as further progress is made towards an automated battlefield; Installation of a computer network called Seek Data II in Vietnam to reduce the average time for planning day-to-day operations; Use of laser technology to pinpoint enemy movements.
The Pentagon Watchers: Students Report On The National Security State., Derek Shearer
The Pentagon Watchers: Students Report On The National Security State., Derek Shearer
Derek Shearer
Papers based on research conducted by students in the summer, 1969 under the title, National Security Summer Research Project, sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington.