Central Government Policies

Takes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand them

Assesses the Liberal Government

Provides an overview of the history, nature, and consequences of ex-felon disenfranchisement in the United States

Takes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand them

In 2004, an ad hoc committee was charged with preparing this third report examining the most senior S&T appointments to federal government posi...

Nationwide, approximately 1,000 Community Action agencies advocate for the poor and provide diverse but critical services such as (but not limited ...

This is an investigation into the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. ...

Comparative essays that analyze the success of Denmark's national political economy.

This book brings together leading experts on Russia's foreign relations, providing the most comprehensive coverage of contemporary Russian foreign ...

Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problem...

Political scientist Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward Korea-North and South-since the end of World War II, but especially...

In Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, Paul R. Brewer looks at how the public debate about gay rights has shaped public opini...

Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic growth and high employment; family structures ...

The Dilemmas of Social Democracies seeks to advance the eradication of poverty and the ethical construction of social democracy and sustainable pea...

Comparative essays that analyze the success of Denmark's national political economy.

This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective. It explores emerging developments a...

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, w...

In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea since 1948 when rival regimes wer...

Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular...

In this eleventh volume in The World Over series, Simon and Brooks examine and compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship across twenty...

This book discusses the principal concepts, the most prominent theories, the primary processes, and the language of American economic policy. It is...

Experimental Secrets addresses an unsettling question asked in recent years about the revolutionary potential of modern biotechnology: might the kn...

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, w...

In . . . And Communications for All, 16 leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new...

In . . . And Communications for All, 16 leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new...

This book offers a rare insight into the transnational expansion and various corners of the illicit economy in Turkey including the smuggling of ph...

The United States is often referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body. And that is for good reason. The Senate Chamber—from its inceptio...

This book analyzes the major post-unification developments that have tested and shaped the “new Germany” from a multilevel perspective. The authors...

Sex, Discrimination, and Violence is about how the systematic application of some basic principles of applied ethics yields some surprising and ver...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Eurozone faced a major challenge to many of its most widely held beliefs around both short- and long-term ...

The Operator's Manual for the New Administration explains how government works and how to make it work to advance policy goals and objectives. Brin...

China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are activel...

Vital center. Radical middle. Amid the red state/blue state divide, is there now space for an iconoclastic militant moderate? In this unusual and r...

The Operator's Manual for the New Administration explains how government works and how to make it work to advance policy goals and objectives. Brin...