Power Steering

Michele M Hoyman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• In Marysville, Ohio; Georgetown, Kentucky; and Smyrna and Spring Hill, Tennessee, life will never again be the same. Once small rural communities, the... Lees meer

Place Matters

Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems--poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic pollu... Lees meer

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

Founding Republics in France and America

John A Rohr

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Recalling Tocqueville's exhortation for the French to "look to America" for a better understanding of their own government, John Rohr returns the favo... Lees meer

Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power

Paul Schumaker

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• A central question in political science is who governs and how. Typically political scientists attempt to answer this question by relying upon either ... Lees meer

All Roads Lead to Power

Kaitlin Sidorsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Speaking of cabinet appointments he'd made as governor, presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously spoke of having "whole binders full of women" to c... Lees meer

Politics of Problem Definition

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• At the nexus of politics and policy development lies persistent conflict over where problems come from, what they signify, and, based on the answers t... Lees meer

By Order of the President

Phillip J Cooper

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• Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. Yet few have truly understood the na... Lees meer

Making the Managerial Presidency

Peri E Arnold

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• This revised and expanded edition of the classic M aking the Managerial Presidency provides a comprehensive history of presidential reorganization pla... 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

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

Governing the White House

Charles E Walcott, Karen M Hult

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Charles Walcott and Karen Hult maintain that the organization of the White House influences presidential performance much more than commonly thought a... Lees meer

Counting Like a State

Philip Rocco

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• An inside look at the 2020 Census that shows the importance of state and local cooperation in the complex federal project of census taking. The census... Lees meer

Whose Welfare?

Steven M Teles

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Few American social programs have been more unpopular, controversial, or costly than Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Its budget, now i... Lees meer

Bully Pulpit

James L Guth, John C Green, Corwin E Smidt, Lyman a Kellstedt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• When Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994, the Christian Right claimed a major role in their defeat and House Speaker Newt Gingrich credited the... Lees meer

Bureau Men, Settlement Women

Camilla Stivers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• During the first two decades of the twentieth century in cities across America, both men and women struggled for urban reform but in distinctively dif... Lees meer

The American Political Pattern

Byron E Shafer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, re... Lees meer

Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice

John A Rohr

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• For civil servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution, that document is the supreme symbol of political morality. Constitutional issues are a... Lees meer

The Fourth Branch

Brian J Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook confronts head-on the accumulating derangement... Lees meer

Challenging the Growth Machine

Barbara Ferman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Economic development and urban growth are the contested grounds of urban politics. Business elites and politicians tend to forge "pro-growth" coalitio... Lees meer

Presidential Control Over Administration

Patrick Obrien

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• The US Constitution recognizes the president as the sole legal head of the executive branch. Despite this constitutional authority, the president's ac... 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

Controlling Public Education

Kathryn A McDermott

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Government and Public Policy
• Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott ... 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