Aimed at undergraduate students of US government and politics, this volume offers an accessible and comprehensive examination of American politics both before and after September 11.
It is little wonder , then , that the American people do not respect the Congress or hold it in high regard as an institution . Nonetheless , it is worthwhile to wonder why , beyond the obvious reasons , Congress gets so little respect ...
This title provides an authoritative, often surprising account of presidential leadership and presidential failure.
After the 1968 election , a young Nixon campaign staffer named Kevin Phillips wrote a book entitled The Emerging Republican Majority , in which he added together the Nixon and Wallace votes of 1968 ( 43 + 14 per cent ) to produce what ...
9 law professors from Yale and the University of Michigan: Charles E. Clark, “The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: A New Federal Civil Procedure,” 44 Yale Law Journal 387, 1291 (1935); Charles E. Clark, “Edson Sunderland and the ...
Governing America
The chapters in this volume analyze concerns about power, influence and representation in American politics, the quality of deliberation and political communications, the management and implementation of public policy, and the performance ...
As this book shows, federalism has played a vital but often underappreciated role in shaping the modern American state.
A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including ...
... cronies to make William McKinley president in 1896. Having assembled the largest war chest in American history, Hanna's spare-no-expense campaign thwarted the “free silver” crusade of renegade Democrat William Jennings 156 Alan Dawley.
Examines political processes and issues that affect the future of every United States citizen.