The Constitution empowers, and the Copyright Act conveys, a system of exclusive rights for authors, for the benefit of their livelihoods, the livel...

Bahrain is a longtime ally that is pivotal to maintaining Persian Gulf security. Kuwait remains pivotal to U.S. efforts to secure the Persian Gulf ...

Small farms account for 91 percent of all farms and 23 percent of agricultural production. There are large differences among small farms, however, ...

Urban geographic inquiry has for decades been biased towards a focus on larger cities and metropolitan areas, both in the developed and developing ...

This book presents a means of assessing the relative threat from terrorist-use of individual chemical, biological, and toxin agents. It focuses on ...

Smart disclosure involves providing consumers access to data in user friendly electronic formats, in order to fuel the creation of products and too...

Award-winning journalist and author Barbara McLintock uses the example of BC's capital city, Victoria, as a case study to show how a region can not...

For much of British history, kings and queens have taken oaths on the Bible as they were coronated. Symbolically,perhaps, President George Washingt...

For much of British history, kings and queens have taken oaths on the Bible as they were coronated. Symbolically perhaps, President George Washingt...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

In recent years, administrative leadership of local governments has responded to the pressures generated by financial strain, control from central ...

Beginning with the widespread use of e-mail by Congress in the mid-1990's, the development of new electronic technologies has altered the tradition...

The guiding question of this work is the following: In which way, if at all, can we define a framework that allows a comparative view on social pro...

Since its enactment in 1935, Social Security has been amended hundreds of times. Consequently, this paper is not fully comprehensive. Instead, it b...

Security provides monthly benefits to retired or disabled workers and their family members, and to the family members of deceased workers. The Soci...

Social Security, in the United States, currently refers to the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original S...

From a customer service perspective, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has set a standard for superior customer service among governmental a...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker's income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Individ...

The term social security in this report refers to programs established by statute that insure individuals against interruption or loss of earning p...

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of sociali...

In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence o...