Central Government Policies

"On the Frontier of Adulthood" reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, o...

Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipel...

Direct democracy continues to grow in importance throughout the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take ...

This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans's wide-ranging career to ma...

Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can re...

Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the la...

The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Establish...

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty gover...

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question...

Despite George W. Bush's professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the...

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular i...

President Obama has signaled a sharp break from many Bush administration policies, but he remains committed to federal support for religious social...

Despite George W. Bush's professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the...

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue sho...

This volume analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs benefiting elderly households will operat...

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare. How their military will f...

Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth focuses on the new and diversifying in...

What does federalism have to do with the political struggle between conservatives and progressives over economic policy? How do economic theories o...