American Government and the Vision of the Democrats
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- ISBN 9780761835769
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 180 x 257mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2007
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work is a comprehensive introduction to the most important issues facing American citizens and their government. It addresses various interpretations of the proper role of government with a view towards the Democrats re-working of such integral issues as:
·States' rights
·Societal affluence and social needs
·Campaign finance reform
·Media Consolidation
·America's climbing debt ceiling
·China's military and political expansion
·Manufacturing's decline
·Job outsourcing
·The disappearance of pension plans
·The whittling away of America's middle class
·America's inadequate health care system
·Environmental degradation
·America's vanishing family farms
Mark Louis Latour writes about current political, social, and environmental issues. Over a period of two decades, Mr. Latour has worked as a Town Planner in California and Massachusetts, a City Administrator in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Maryland; and a County Administrator in Colorado.
Mr. Latour was Chairman of the Business Management Department at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, where he also taught courses in American Government. He holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Mr. Latour is currently writing a book on the politics of environmental preservation.
