Central Government Policies

A behind-the-scenes look at the environment for defense policy and budgeting—in Congress, the news media, and the defense industry—reveals that the...

Helsing provides a unique perspective on the escalation of the Vietnam War. He examines what many analysts and former policymakers in the Johnson a...

Both Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping drastically altered the course of contemporary China's economic development using opposing strategies. Mao froze ...

Kessler shows how political considerations distorted the liberalization process in Mexico, leading to inconsistent and unsustainable patterns of fi...

Iran today is still struggling with the legacy of its own Islamic revolution, and is deeply divided between the moderates who enjoy broad public su...

Government supported junk social science-or sanctified snake oil as Sarnoff terms it-exists in all policy arenas along the entire political spectru...

The first comprehensive account of China policy during the Kennedy years, this study profiles John F. Kennedy as a man whose inner struggles and di...

This book examines the role of the military in the wave of democratization that has swept through Latin America in the past decade. Although much o...

In mid-July 1997, just as the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 8,000, the federal government announced that personal bankruptcies were at an all-...

Kauffman's perspective on progress in America—from the point of view of those who lost—revives forgotten figures and reinvigorates dormant causes a...

South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy has been a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities. The accession by leading fractions of the African...

Employing the conceptual framework elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu, Peillon provides a unified analysis of social welfare institutions and practices ...

A cooperative effort by a number of historians and political scientists, this essay collection focuses on the important connection between domestic...

Defining planning as an inherent aspect of human life, Branch presents conclusions reached from 20 previous volumes dealing with different aspects ...

Technological innovation, the globalization of exchange, greater marital instability, and new environmental and health challenges are reshaping the...

American domestic and international economic policymaking is a sometimes bewildering mixture of economic expertise and political interests. Headlee...

Why has the military not intervened in the post-communist political arena since the advent of democracy in Russia? Do lowered levels of professiona...

Postwar Japan has consistently maintained close cooperation with the United States over the last four decades over such major issues as Japan's rec...

David Perlmutter examines concerns over the interplay of pictures in the press, elite decision-making and public opinion on foreign policy. His foc...

Kessler shows how political considerations distorted the liberalization process in Mexico, leading to inconsistent and unsustainable patterns of fi...

From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different and better society on Earth, namel...

Gibbs and Bankhead examine the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make...

Blahous contends that Social Security is ill-equipped to withstand the effects of an aging population and will impose excessive tax burdens upon fu...