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  • The State and the Stork

    The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

    by Derek S. Hoff ...
    "A powerful model of how to understand the complex array of issues that will shape the political economy of population in the future."— American Historical ReviewFrom the founders' fears that crowded cities would produce corruption, luxury, and vice to the zero population growth movement of the late 1960s to today's widespread fears of an aging crisis as the Baby Boomers retire, the American ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighting Foreclosure

    The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression

    by John A. Fliter, Derek S. Hoff ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension or -adjustment laws to help farmers and homeowners keep their properties. One such statute in Minnesota led to the most important property law case of its time and still casts a long shadow upon constitutional debates and our own era's severe ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Eyewitness To Power

    The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

    by David Gergen ...
    Series series A Political History and Leadership Bestseller
    From Nixon to Clinton, Watergate to Whitewater, few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and Democrat, he offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and draws from them key lessons for leaders of the future.Gergen ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Way Forward

    Renewing the American Idea

    by Paul Ryan ...
    From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.The Way Forward challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond, and shows how essential conservatism is for the future of our nation.Beginning with a careful analysis of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Business and Government in Canada

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Boundaries between business and government are increasingly fluid and often transcended. Yet it remains important to acknowledge and make appropriate use of the fundamental differences between these sectors.Five areas that offer the most critical challenges to business and government in Canada today are corporate governance, lobbying and influence, security and privacy, public-private partnerships ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Nigeria

    Dancing on the Brink

    by John Campbell ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Is Administrative Law Unlawful?

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    "Hamburger argues persuasively that America has overlaid its constitutional system with a form of governance that is both alien and dangerous." — Law and Politics Book ReviewWhile the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Divided Welfare State

    The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States

    by Jacob S. Hacker ...
    The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. American social spending is as high as spending in many European nations. What is distinctive is that so many social ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Policy State

    An American Predicament

    by Karen Orren, Stephen Skowronek ...
    The steady accretion of public policies over the decades has fundamentally changed how America is governed. The formulation and delivery of policy have emerged as the government’s entire raison d’être, redefining rights and reconfiguring institutional structures. The Policy State looks closely at this massive unnoticed fact of modern politics and addresses the controversies swirling around it. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • European Union Governance

    Effectiveness and Legitimacy in European Commission Committees

    by Karen Heard-Laureote ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    The European Commission has increasingly focused on the benefits it can derive from the greater participation of organized civil society in its role and activities. In the face of general decline in public trust in the institutions of government, it facilitated and encouraged new channels of access and consultation opportunities as a means to legitimize its position within the European political ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Unbroken Government

    Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Religion and Politics in the European Union

    The Secular Canopy

    by François Foret ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    This book analyzes the place and influence of religion in European politics. François Foret presents the first data ever collected on the religious beliefs of European decision makers and what they do with these beliefs. Discussing popular assumptions such as the return of religion, aggressive European secularism, and religious lobbying, Foret offers objective data and non-normative conceptual ... Read more

    $110.69 USD