Democratic Delusions

Richard J Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• It is becoming common in many states: the opportunity to reclaim government from politicians by simply signing a petition to put an initiative on the ... Lees meer

Presidential Vetoes and Public Policy

Richard Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• The veto power, claimed Woodrow Wilson, is the president's most formidable prerogative. Despite that assertion, Richard Watson shows that the presiden... Lees meer

Policy Design for Democracy

Anne Larason Schneider, Helen Ingram

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public polic... Lees meer

Cooperative Pluralism

Andrew S McFarland

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• National business and political leaders, President Clinton included, are urging greater consultation among conflicting interest groups and government ... Lees meer

Twenty Years of Service

Brandon J Archuleta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Military pension policies are as old as the republic itself and reside at the intersection of American social, economic, and defense policy. But as th... Lees meer

Empowering the White House

Karen M Hult, Charles E Walcott

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• On the surface the new president seems to inherit an empty house," Hugh Heclo, a recognized expert on American democratic institutions, has noted. "In... Lees meer

Changing Urban Education

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• With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high. Teachers decry i... Lees meer

The Green Agenda in American Politics

Robert J Duffy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Organizations such as the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth are familiar to anyone with an interest in environmental protection. As activist groups... Lees meer

Executive Privilege

Mark J Rozell, Mitchel A Sollenberger

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Executive Privilege --called "the definitive contemporary work on the subject" by the Journal of Politics --is widely considered the best in-depth his... Lees meer

The Sustaining Hand

Bryan D Jones, Lynn W Bachelor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• As the recent shake-up at GM underscores, the new global economy has widened the cracks and stresses in the American auto industry. But, as this new e... Lees meer

After the Cure

Martin A Levin, Mary Bryna Sanger

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• As alarming stories about new pathogens like the Ebola virus or Mad Cow Disease fill today's headlines, scientists face a test of their abilities to c... Lees meer

The War Against Regulation

Phillip J Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Battered by our economy and disappointed by our government's role in that battering, we might be tempted to point the finger of blame at whoever's cur... Lees meer

School Reform, Corporate Style

Dorothy Shipps

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Like other big city school systems, Chicago's has been repeatedly "reformed" over the last century. Yet its schools have fallen far short of citizens'... Lees meer

Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Agenda-setting is a key component in the democratic process if political outsiders are to have their concerns taken seriously. However, their efforts ... Lees meer

Rediscovering the Democratic Purposes of Education

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Why do America's public schools seem unable to meet today's social challenges? As competing interest groups vie over issues like funding and curricula... Lees meer

Revolving Door Lobbying

Timothy M Lapira, Herschel F Thomas III

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of "revolving door lobbyists"--politicians and officials cashing in on their gove... Lees meer

Neopluralism

Andrew S McFarland

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Many of the basic issues of political science have been addressed by pluralist theory, which focuses on the competing interests of a democratic polity... Lees meer

Inventing the American Presidency

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• Now widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of Interpreting the Founding provided summaries and an... Lees meer

Impeaching Clinton

Nicol C Rae, Colton C Campbell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Why did congressional Republicans obsessively pursue the impeachment of President Bill Clinton when the 1998 midterm elections and public opinion poll... Lees meer

Communication in Congress

David Whiteman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Does Congress know enough to legislate for the nation? Reforms over the last two decades, increasing the number of congressional staff and enhancing c... Lees meer

To Run a Constitution

John a Rohr

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• In 1887, the centennial year of the American Constitution, Woodrow Wilson wrote that "it is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame o... Lees meer

The Worst Tax?

Glenn W Fisher

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Noted tax economist Frederick C. Stocker has observed that the property tax "resembles a structure designed by a mad architect, erected on a shaky fou... Lees meer

Obamacare Wars

Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia's attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, th... Lees meer

City Schools and City Politics

John Portz, Lana Stein, Robin R Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Educational reform is one of the most critical issues facing our cities, but some cities are better at it than others. To explain why, this book relat... Lees meer