Central Government

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conser...

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective...

The problem with expertise and the dark side of the equation knowledge = power. Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us a...

Historians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between u...

With the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the ongoing campaign for majority control, both Republicans and Democrats have made large d...

Explores the reciprocal relationship between public policy and special interest groups for the elderly

With evidence drawn from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Great Britain, and Hungary, Re-forming the State examines the processes leading to, and the poli...

In the late nineteenth century, many Central American governments and countries sought to fill low-paying jobs and develop their economies by recru...

The Political Economy of Expertise is a carefully argued examination of how legislatures use expert research and testimony. Kevin Esterling demonst...

Media accounts of Congress emphasize conflict and the failure of Congress to enact legislation. Rarely do we see accounts of the successful efforts...

Regulation, Organizations, and Politics examines the evolution of regulation at the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). The ICC has probably had ...

We have seen recent massive intervention by the United States and its allies in Europe in internal conflict in Bosnia and Kosovo. In Outside Interv...

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a Senate that was nothing short of an American House of Lords. Until the early 1800s,...

Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizatio...

THE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WARHow Reagan reignited the foreign policy p...

Skillfully blending historical data with microeconomic theory, Glenn Parker argues that the incentives for congressional service have declined over...

Radicalization is a major challenge of contemporary global security. It conjures up images of violent ideologies, “homegrown” terrorists and jihad ...

In this accessible book, Burden explores alternative theoretical approaches to the development of social policy, offering a wide spread of comparat...

In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policyma...

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the...

The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulati...

Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways th...

Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush a...

Recent archaeological discoveries in the polar region have reanimated stock images of the intrepid explorer who braves the elements to bring modern...

In 2003, the President and the U.S. Congress established the Department of Homeland Security. From the beginning, its mission was clear: prevent te...

In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policyma...

A guide by which practitioners can expand their repertoire of organizational roles

In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some form of official recognition or public accommodation of their i...

Religious Freedom in the World profiles 101 countries and territories, which between them contain more than 95 percent of the world's population, a...

The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and ...

In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but lit...

Ever since the Founding Fathers' faith in George Washington led them to create the presidency, the issue of character has been inextricably linked ...

In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the ...

In this new adaptation from their classic Judicial Process in America, Carp, Stidham, and Manning provide a comprehensive look at state judicial sy...

The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna ...