Central Government

As Queen Elizabeth IIs record-breaking reign draws to a close, experts on the Crown explore the future of the monarchy in Canada. Queen Elizabeth I...

The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations Subc...

This book contains a collection of Stephen Hess''s best essays on the presidency. Written over a fifteen year period, the essays selected are just ...

When the framers of the Constitution gathered in the summer of 1787, their deliberations were shrouded in secrecy. The Pennsylvania State House ...

This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward Is conquest in 1277 and H...

Inspired by his parents love for the written word, former Speaker of the House Jim Wright developed a passion for books and writing at a young age....

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most el...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the way...

It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority, wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. T...

Barbara Sinclair does an excellent job of showing how contemporary lawmaking departs from the traditional legislative process. I cant imagine teach...

Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People...

This study is not written from the narrow perspective of Who gets the oil? It is a thoughtful probing of an issue-the ownership and control of th...

How do transformative changes in public policy take place? Why do some issues rise to the top of the political agenda, while others are completely ...

The relation of White House assistants to the president, their appropriate role in the governmental process, and the most effective means for organ...

David Taylor was a supremely resourceful backbencher, a polymath and a unique parliamentary craftsman whose sudden death on Boxing Day 2009 shocked...

Peru and the United States have a strong and cooperative relationship. Several issues in U.S.-Peruvian relations are likely to be considered in dec...