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This fourth edition prompts students to consider and understand the critical choices and enduring principles of the past that shape the present and future of American politics and government. The book is intended for introductory courses in American government.

This fourth edition prompts students to consider and understand the critical choices and enduring principles of the past that shape the present and future of American politics and government. The book is intended for introductory courses in American government.

This book takes an American political development approach to explicate the fundamentals of American politics and government. It prompts students to consider and understand how the past shapes the present and future of American politics and government.

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This reference book sets out to provide a useful glossary to writers, reviewers and citizens interested in the EIS process. Over the last decade, environmental impact statements have devel­ oped a rich, but sometimes confusing vocabulary. The purpose of this book is to help people understand and communicate more effec­ tively by presenting, analyzing and comparing terminology used by various EIS organizations. This book is not a technical glos...

This book sets out to provide a useful directory to writers, reviewers, and citizens interested in the environmental impact statement (EIS) process in the United States. Although several "environmental" directories address a narrow portion of EIS subject matter, there is no single directory that covers the wide range of agencies and organizations involved in the EIS process. Therefore, the purpose of this directory is to bring EIS-related agen...

This work argues that there has not been a truly great American President in the latter half of the 20th century. It examines five past presidencies, including Washington and Lincoln, showing what made them great and highlighting the possibilities and limitations of the office.

A detailed analysis on the American government using the American Political Development approach.

Promoting competition has been a leading theme of public policy over the past 30 years. In the United States, the movement began in the 1970s with efforts to rewrite the rules for aviation, trucking, and telecommunications.

Promoting competition is not just about removing legal controls and then getting out of the way. It also requires that policymakers consciously design new markets, often with significant rules and regulations to promote efficiency. In Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics and Economics of Regulatory Reform, leading experts from academia, government, and the private sector evaluate more than a dozen efforts at market design.

All people want to talk about these days is the Republican 'revolution' in the process and substance of public policy. This collection of essays gives us a framework for assessing the novelty of the revolution' and, more importantly, for grounding today's policy developments in the changes in American politics and political philosophy over the past two decades." -- Richard A. Brody, Stanford University."An ambitious, provocative book that deve...

Investigating what exactly makes a US president great, Landy (political science, Boston College) and Milkis (government, U. of Virginia) choose five they believe exhibit greatness and look for what qualities they had in common. They find that Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt all sought to change and improve the nature of the regimes they inherited, and had the good luck to arrive at a time when conditions made su...