Politics and government

Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked

Von der Abwrackprämie zum Abstellgleis; Satire über die deutsche Automobilindustrie Einst galt die

Der blühende Reichsstadtstaat Dinkelsbühl zerbrach nach Martin Luthers Reformation. Die

"Rio de Janeiro: como chegamos aqui?", da jornalista Julia Michaels, é uma viagem pessoal para

One of the central questions of political science has been whether politicians control the

In this pre-World War II analysis of working-class areas of Tokyo, primarily its Honjo ward,

Kuo contrasts the economic evolutions of Taiwan and the Philippines as the product of government

The industrial development of Ecuador has made fortunes for some, but has largely bypassed the

The development of the Dutch welfare state in the Netherlands started later than in other Western

Careers in City Politics provides an in-depth view of the vital aspects of local

One of the most important changes in Congress in decades were the extensive congressional reforms

Constitutional principles at the core of the United States government divide authority between

Recently, there has been a renewed concern with highway safety, reflected in wide media coverage

Contributors: Barry Boyer; Colin S. Diver; Daniel J. Gifford; Keith Hawkins; Peter K. Manning;

Jeffrey E. Cohen presents a detailed, quantitative study of the characteristics of presidential

How close to reality was the official U.S. image of Libya through the Nixon-Ford, Carter, and

Since the expansion of public programs in the 1960s, charges of bureaucratic inefficiency,

Richard Fenno first coined the term home style to describe the ways in which members of Congress

In this book, Steven R. Reed argues that studying only central administrations and national-level

Congressional supervision of the way the executive implements legislative mandates-"oversight" of

In this closely reasoned and lucid analysis, an important thinker on American strategy surveys

During the progressive era, most American policymakers agreed that China represented a land of

In studying the effect of New Deal on urban political machines, Bruce M. Stave challenges the

With nuclear proliferation essentially eliminating full-scale warfare, governments have

This volume is intended as a contribution to the study of administration. The contributors

This book represents the first political history of the federal government's only experiment in

As if by unseen signal toward the end of the 1980s, many Latin American governments suddenly

The Swedish Social Democratic Party, the SAP, is the most successful social democratic party in the

Winner of the 1998 Charles Levine Award for best book on administration and policyDunn focuses on

All governments face problems and are judged by their ability to solve them and the policies they

Nations use product standards, and manipulate them, for reasons othen than practical use or safety.

During much of the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985), an elaborate but illegal system of

Rajan investigates air pollution policy as one based on how to make cars less polluting. Putting

Increased enviromental awareness, more demands on local governments, a newly invigorated citizen

The British created a system wherein the social identity of civil servants clearly influenced their

Levin-Waldman argues that if American public policy were to be evaluated against a different set of

This book explains why some countries succeed in installing democracy after authoritarian rule, and

Choice 1997 Outstanding Academic Book

Why have some

Every time control of the U.S. presidency is passed from one party to another, the entire top layer

Examining the Marcos and Aquino administrations in the Philippines, and a number of cases in Latin

Common misconceptions about Japan begin with the notion that it is a "small" country (it's actually

Gerald Jacob views the history of public policy regarding nuclear waste, culminating in the 1982

This timely and important book, which won a special citation from the American Political Science

Averch describes and analyzes common strategies for solving problems in public policy. The

Richard Cottam served in the U.S. embassy in Tehran from 1956 to 1958 and was consulted by the

This study describes the origins of acid rain, how it is formed, the ecological and human effects,

This book focuses on the important and increasingly controversial issues of utility regulation by