Politics and Government

The office of the President of the United States was plagued by scandals in the early 1970s. When Jimmy Carter ran for office in 1976, the natio...

As governor of Rhode Island, J. Howard McGrath oversaw the passage of social legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents during th...

In the years immediately preceding 1837, when Michigan was at last admitted to the Union, her constitution and State Government were devised by her...

Since 1916, when the first woman was elected to the US Congress, fewer than 10 percent of all members have been women. Why is this number so extrao...

Since 1916, when the first woman was elected to the US Congress, fewer than 10 percent of all members have been women. Why is this number so extrao...

Climate change has long been a contentious issue, even before its official acknowledgment as a global threat in 1979. Government policies have vari...

Where are Asian Americans gaining political power in the United States today? And how? Looking beyond traditional conceptions of immigrant politica...

A definitive volume on the election of United States governors during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Industrialization periods, this book provi...

The focus of this title is the subject of the National Forensics League (NFL)'s 2012-2013 Policy Debate. It is, should the United States federal go...

The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for wom...

At the same time as Denmark and Sweden were locked in a battle for supremacy in northern Europe, several other countries around Europe engaged in s...

What didn't you like about the 1990s--the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a ca...