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Civil wars and internal conflicts pose the greatest threat to international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in East Asia and the Pacific, which has far more of its share of such conflicts...

The proper role of the government operating in a free society and regulating an individual's behavior is a subject that can provoke heated political debate. There is an ongoing discussion among the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court about the...

Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats is an exceptionally clear exposition of bureaucratic behavior amongst various agencies as each responded to the challenges of the War on Drugs. Chapter by chapter, author Tony Payan exposes the bureaucratic imperatives of...

Starting Over traces the remarkable political career of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen. Once considered a likely presidential candidate, Allen became a YouTube sensation after a slip of the tongue. But the Allen story is not over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169973343Author Walter LippmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 576g

This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard conceptions of the American public as anti-government,...

Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and...

The bureaucracy in the United States has a hand in almost all aspects of our lives, from the water we drink to the parts in our cars. For a force so influential and pervasive, however, this body of all nonelective government officials remains an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615980751Author Mikhail KryzhanovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Miraclaire PublishingPublisher Miraclaire PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575481Author Rachel MaddowFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Why is national identity such a potent force in people's lives? And is the force positive or negative? In this thoughtful and provocative book, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse develops a social theory of national identity and uses a national survey, focus groups,...

The right to vote is the foundation of democratic government; all other policies are derived from it. The history of voting rights in America has been characterized by a gradual expansion of the franchise. American Indians are an important part of that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393333794Author Leo RangellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393331219Author Henry Cabot LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

A central concern about the robustness of democratic rule in new democracies is the concentration of power in the executive branch and the potential this creates for abuse. This concern is felt particularly with regard to the concentration of legislative...

Every government engages in budgeting and public financial management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087974057Author Ghazanfar HashmiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Ghazanfar ShahPublisher Ghazanfar ShahWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997343809Author Dave DoughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Surviveusa, LLCPublisher Surviveusa, LLCWeight(grams) 499g

The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476689456Author Steven VerrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

The clashes between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 and 1900 presidential elections changed the course of American politics. Prior to Bryan's candidacy, the Democratic Party was slightly more conservative than the Republican...

This book, originally published in 1977, is comprised of a selection of documents which have been carefully arranged and edited to illustrate the main characteristics of local government systems in Britain during a period of extensive reform and...

This is the first and only comprehensive, book-length political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. The book focuses on the period from 1915 to 2016, including the post-9/11 debates and policy...

US federalism grants state legislators the authority to design many aspects of election administration, including ballot features that mediate how citizens understand and engage with the choices available to them when casting their votes. Seemingly...

This book examines the dynamics of the American party system and explores how contemporary American politics was formed. Specifically, it asks how the Democrats could become sufficiently competitive in the American North as to be able to construct a...

When do local communities benefit from natural resource extraction? In some regions of natural resource extraction, firms provide goods and services to local communities, but in others, protest may occur, leading to government regulatory or repressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999710746Author Annie J WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Band of Investment Publishing Co.Publisher Band of Investment Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

November 2010 sees the first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, to be held as the culmination of the military regime's 'Road Map for Democracy' The conditions under which the elections are being held are far from favourable, although the laws and...

Since 1970 seventy-three political leaders within the major parties have been forcibly removed from their leadership positions. And at the heart of the turmoil is the media, with its 24-hour news cycle making political leadership evermore precarious...

With the world watching closely, Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011. After convening the parliament, elected in November 2010, the former military regime transferred power to a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393441697Author Ken KollmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 909g

Jimmy Carter was, according to Erwin Hargrove, the first modern Democratic president to be substantially ahead of the party coalition. Concerned with issues of the future - inflation, the need for tax reform, energy shortages - Carter anticipated many...

The authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey was a "rolling cross-section": a daily tracking of the campaign designed explicitly to monitor...

This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they...

The federal government holds a vast domain of American land. Does it hold these acres in trust for future generations and for the planet itself? Or does it hold them as a resource for economic development and growth? Indeed, should it hold them at all?...

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 one." The context for Wilson's comment was an essay calling for sound principles of...

Perfectly timed to anticipate the possible election of a new president in 1996, the second edition of James Pfiffner's The Strategic Presidency provides the most complete and authoritative volume on presidential transitions from JFK to Bill Clinton...

The fifth edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999677704Author Deborah CupplesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Delfinium, LLCPublisher Delfinium, LLCWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The invention of the United States Senate was the most complicated and confounding achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Although much has been written on various aspects of Senate history, this is the first book to examine and link the three...