Governing the States and the Nation

Mitchel N Herian

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• This book strives to address this gap in the research literature by focusing on the intergovernmental role of the nation's governors. This is done by ... Lees meer

Jockeying for the American Presidency

Lara M Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• The quadrennial presidential election is the foremost event in American politics. Though it is, as Tocqueville notes, "a time of national crisis," it ... Lees meer

Majority Leadership in the U.S. Senate

Andrea C Hatcher

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• This book is the first comprehensive study of Senate majority leadership--it covers the office and its occupants from the first incumbent, John W Kern... Lees meer

The Role of Special Education Interest Groups in National Policy

Tiina Itkonen

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• This study adopts a political perspective and is grounded in the assumption that special education is a policy domain characterized by multiple and co... Lees meer

Saving American Elections

Anthony Gierzynski

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• "Many citizens, politicians, and pundits routinely complain about the health of the political system, but few attempt a systematic diagnosis and even ... Lees meer

Corruption and American Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• From the days of Athenian democracy to the back rooms of Chicago politics today, corruption has plagued all political systems for all time. It is ubiq... Lees meer

Filibustering in the U.S. Senate

Lauren Cohen Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• This book remedies the near-complete lack of individual senator-level data available to scholars. Moreover, the dataset that Bell compiles represents ... Lees meer

U.S. Farm Bills and Policy Reforms

Nadine Lehrer

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• U.S. farm bills are home to the nation's primary policies for agriculture, land use, and conservation. Although often outside the public spotlight, ma... Lees meer

Doing Archival Research in Political Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• Given the dearth of training in archival research, the editors envisioned a book that addresses the "how to" of archival research by involving the per... Lees meer

The FCC and the Politics of Cable TV Regulation, 1952-1980

Michael J Zarkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America
• While other studies have examined the history of cable television regulation, none has fully explained why the FCC struggled to develop regulations du... Lees meer