Walter Williams and Bryan D. Jones
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WALTER WILLIAMS, Ph.D. is the Distinguished Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on presidential decision-making, governance and leadership. A frequent contributor to the editorial pages of newspapers across the country, his previous books include Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, Honest Numbers and Democracy, and Mismanaging America.

BRYAN D. JONES, Ph.D. is Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics and Director of the Center of American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington, Seattle. His scholarly interests focus on American public policy processes while his research concentrates on decision-making in policymaking organizations and on agenda-setting processes in American national political institutions. His previous books include Politics and the Architecture of Choice and Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics, both of which won the American Political Science Association (APSA) Political Psychology Section Robert Lane Award, and Agendas and Instability in American Politics (with Frank Baumgartner), which won the 2001 Aaron Wildavsky Award for Enduring Contribution to the Study of Public Policy, awarded by APSA's Public Policy Section. In addition, his articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and American Journal of Political Science, and he has served on the editorial boards of American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Economic Development Quarterly, Governance, Political Psychology, and State and Local Government Review.

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Preventing Great Depression II

Posted March 4, 2009 | 22:25:59 (EST)


Chicken Little may be right this time. "The sky is falling." As America's economy plunges rapidly toward Great Depression II, consumer and investor confidence rush downward at an even faster rate.
No one has produced the economic plan that stirs people from their...

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Deception

Posted October 29, 2008 | 19:16:46 (EST)

Spurning facts can be a dangerous game when played by the president of the United States. It starts when he rejects hard evidence because it conflicts with a policy he wants to pursue. Flaunting of reality likely dooms that policy to failure.

The next dangerous step...

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The Most Important Election Since 1932

Posted October 2, 2008 | 17:00:48 (EST)

All presidential elections are not created equal. Some are important; some, considerably less so. Once in a lifetime the fate of the nation rides on an election outcome. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 saved the Union. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election in 1932 kept the nation afloat during the economic ravages...

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