Central Government

The mission of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is to safeguard and preserve government records, ensuring continuing access ...

Sexual assault is a crime that devastates victims and has a far-reaching negative impact for The Department of Defense (DOD) because it undermines ...

The production of oil and natural gas in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade. As of 2014, domestic production of crude oil...

This book provides a brief history of the creation, evolution, activities, and membership of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. First establish...

The resolution of inquiry is a simple House resolution that seeks factual information from the executive branch. Such resolutions are given privile...

The biography of a politician who played a profound role in the history of the African National Congress, this account follows Kader Asmal from his...

Examining the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson's leadershipKey featuresFirst book to examine the recent rev...

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...