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Climbing the Hill explores the history and current status of women members and staff on Capitol Hill. It traces the difficult history of women in C...

This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the Uni...

The field of social policy has produced numerous academic studies, most of which either introduce social policy and welfare programs, or focus on a...

This book develops an analytical framework for the examination of the politics of privatization. Dobek argues that privatization is a strategy that...

Designed to meet the growing demand for evaluation material, this volume fills a major gap in criminal justice literature. It details the first com...

Global population policies are under intense scrutiny as environmental and development organizations worry about the threat of overpopulation and c...

This concise volume outlines developments in Hungarian foreign policy since the end of the Communist regime and the formation of the country's demo...

This book is the fourth in a projected eight-volume series that addresses the origins and development of the idea of legislative sovereignty and th...

This work follows upon the author's previous volume, The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil, and investigates the general workings of the Mexican ...

This is the first original book-length study of corruption in the People's Republic of China. The work relates the corruption issue to ongoing poli...

Alexander is among the most experienced observers of Latin American politics and has been an active correspondent with major figures of the region ...

This work examines the main economic trends affecting rural areas today and the types of local programs that are being implemented in response. The...

This original contribution largely based on unpublished material to the biography of an American president and to the diplomatic history of the Uni...

This book examines major historical post-war transition periods, with particular emphasis on the differences and similarities of the American exper...

The United States' foreign assistance program has become an instrument of declining efficacy in foreign policy. The ebbing of Soviet-American compe...

This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the Uni...

This is a thoroughly revised, in-depth analysis of the American presidency by a major scholar in the field. The main goal of the text is to explain...

Doctrines have been a prevalent form of foreign policy in U.S. history. This study seeks to explain their origins by examining the Reagan Doctrine,...

This volume examines the shift in the emphasis of the United States Congress from a deliberative body to a focal point for political pressures. The...

Targeted federal aid to needy city areas is difficult to maintain because of political pressure to broaden geographical coverage for continued legi...

Privatization began in the 1970s with Carter's deregulation of some business, and increased with the Thatcher administration in the United Kingdom,...