American Government: Global and Presidential Impacts demonstrates how the office of the presidency has shaped domestic politics and become a key player in bringing about globalization. The book explores the ways presidential politics and decision-making impact people domestically and internationally. The material addresses topics such as the relationship between the presidency and the media, the foundations of world citizenship, and the recent torture memos. This edition features new readings on topics such as the 2016 presidential election, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Encompassing events both past and contemporary, American Government challenges readers to consider how presidents knowingly and inadvertently, for good or for ill, exert their influence on a global scale. This versatile text offers readers a fresh perspective on American government, aspects of the presidency, and the many ways the world is linked. It is well suited to courses on American government, introductory political science, the American presidency, and the executive process. As a cost-effective alternative to standard texts, American Government is also a useful addition to American government courses that seek to place material in comparative perspective.

We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it. In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few. Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion and trillion dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment. In this revolutionary book, she introduces her wholly-achievable alternative; a fair and comprehensive competition law that limits unfair mergers, enforces accountability and redistributes power through stakeholder governance. With an afterword by Simon Holmes, Member of the UK 's Competition Appeal Tribunal, Academic Visitor at the Centre for Competition Law and Policy, Oxford University