Licensed to Kill?

Joan Aron

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Examines the nuclear power plant constructed at Shoreham, New York, and the accumulated miscalculations and mishaps that eventually forced its deconst... Lees meer

Wars in the Midst of Peace

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Violent conflicts rooted in ethnicity have erupted all over the world. Since the Cold War ended and a new world order has failed to emerge, political ... Lees meer

Policy Making in Israel

Ira Sharkansky

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• All governments face problems and are judged by their ability to solve them and the policies they develop in doing so. Compared with other Western dem... Lees meer

U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• The cold war came to a grinding halt during the astounding developments of 1989-1991. The Berlin Wall fell, Eastern European countries freed themselve... Lees meer

Debt Wish

Alberta Sbragia

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Albert Sbragia considers American urban government as an investor whether for building infrastructure or supporting economic development. Over time, s... Lees meer

Political Leadership

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• This collection of essays draws on writings from mythologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians, and political activists, to present perspective... Lees meer

Steel, State, and Labor

Anthony Daley

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• The creation of wealth depends on the capacity of economic actors to adapt to market changes. Such adaptation, in turn, poses fundamental questions ab... Lees meer

Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney

Donald J Savoie

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Savoie considers the war of reform waged by the leaders of these major industrial countries. Reagan declared that he had come to Washington to \u201cd... Lees meer

Making Common Sense of Japan

Steven Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Common misconceptions about Japan begin with the notion that it is a \u201csmall\u201d country (it's actually lager than Great Britain, Germany or Ita... Lees meer

"He Shall Not Pass This Way Again"

Stephen L Wasby

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• After a successful career as a law professor and government regulator, William O. Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Lees meer

The Social Construction of Expertise

Gail Savage

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• The British created a system wherein the social identity of civil servants clearly influenced their position on official matters. This privileged clas... Lees meer

Strategic Disagreement

John Gilmour

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Politics may be the art of compromise, but accepting a compromise can be hazardous to a politician\u2019s health. Politicians worry about betraying fa... Lees meer

How Nations Choose Product Standards and Standards Change Nations

Krislov S

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Nations use product standards, and manipulate them, for reasons othen than practical use or safety. The Soviets once cultivated standards to isolate t... Lees meer

Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy

Mark Carl Rom

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Winner of the Harold Lasswell Award of the American Political Science Association The FSFIC failed spectacularly during the 1980s, costing taxpayers a... Lees meer

Site Unseen

Gerald Jacob

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Gerald Jacob views the history of public policy regarding nuclear waste, culminating in the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy act and its aftermath. The 1982 ... Lees meer

The President's Call

Judith E Michaels

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Judith Michaels provides an in-depth examination of the Senate-confirmed presidential appointees of the Gorge H. W. Bush administration, and analyzes ... Lees meer

The Political Psychology of the Gulf War

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• In these original essays, widely respected experts analyze the personal psychologies and public belief systems of the individuals and nations involved... Lees meer

The Acid Rain Controversy

James L Regens, Robert W Rycroft

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• This study describes the origins of acid rain, how it is formed, the ecological and human effects, and prevention methods. It also examines debates wi... Lees meer

The Higher Civil Service in the United States

Mark W Huddleston, William W Boyer

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Every time control of the U.S. presidency is passed from one party to another, the entire top layer of the executive branch changes. Thousands of men ... Lees meer

Party Organizations in American Politics

Cornelius P Cotter, John F Bibby, James L Gibson, Robert J Huckshorn

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Contradicting the conventional political wisdom of the 1970s, which said state political parties were dormant and verging upon extinction, this book r... Lees meer

Politics and Administration at the Top

Delmer Dunn

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Winner of the 1998 Charles Levine Award for best book on administration and policy Dunn focuses on two levers of power in modern democracies, the elec... Lees meer

Understanding Attitudes about War

Gregory G Brunk, Donald Secrest, Howard Tamashiro

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
• Choice 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Why have some traditional cold warriors opposed involvement in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, while many vocal ... Lees meer