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Japan's Civil Service System is a comprehensive description of the organization, staffing, and actual daily workings of the postwar Japanese government bureaucracy.

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Examines the major concerns of Carter's experience of foreign policy, including: staffing the foreign-policy apparatus; shifting human rights to the forefront of basic policy considerations; and lessening Cold War tensions. This volume also covers Carter's career after leaving the White House.

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Following a long and distinguished public career, John Adams had a turbulent presidency. Since the 1960s, however, scholars have begun to turn their attention to John Adams. This bibliography provides access to both primary sources and the secondary literature on John Adams.

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Prepared by a leading Kennedy scholar, this volume is the most definitive and up-to-date bibliography on Kennedy.

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This bibliography provides a guide to literature on the various careers of John Quincy Adams. He was a congressman, a diplomat and Secretary of State, and from 1825-9 he served as America's 6th President. Included are archival resources, Adams's own writings and general biographical publications.

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At a crucial time in American history, John Tylerelected vice president on the Whig ticketbecame president upon the death of William Henry Harrison. This bibliography provides an excellent beginning for those wishing to research Tyler and this critical period in American history.

The definitive study of Tyler is yet to be written.

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This book analyzes why the Rehnquist Court never fulfilled expectations for the reversal of liberal judicial decisions from the Warren and Burger Courts.

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An analysis of the challenges involved in incorporating science and other kinds of knowledge into making environmental policy.

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In seeking to trace the relationships among various economic factors and to provide some insight into the process of economic development, this volume marshalls a considerable array of statistics and institutional descriptions as a background for analysis.

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George Bush's critics charge him with paying undue attention to opinion polls, focusing on symbol rather than substance. This issue is addressed here with regard to the forthcoming presidential election, the potential for governance in a second term, the legacy of the Bush presidency and more.

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Drawing on extensive interviews with current and former ministers, ministerial staffers, and senior officials, this in-depth examination offers insight into the Australian political and democratic processes.

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In their tenth co-authored study, Brennan and Hahn propose both a new method of biographical study for students of political communication and a new way of evaluating candidates for presidential office.

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Offers an account of the author's service as Secretary of Labor in the first Clinton administration, revealing the machinations of the president's cabinet and the politicians who try to thwart it.

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An arresting and unique portrait of the House of Lords. Its seductiveness and complex hidden structures are captured in a readable book for researchers, students and the general reader. -- .

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Shows the need for true deliberation on the floor of Congress and the dangers of the present partisan posturing.

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The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments. -- .

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This book addresses a significant area of applied social-choice theory--the evaluation of voting procedures designed to select a single winner from a field of three or more candidates. Such procedures can differ strikingly in the election outcomes they produce, the opportunities for manipulation that they create, and the nature of the candidates--c

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A political scientist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government analyses how public policy is made in this country, and why the system works so much better than most observers believe.

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Balk proposes an applied theory of public agency democracy designed to liberate the potential of its highly trained experts.

The book begins by discussing professionals as power intermediaries and their necessary tensions with authority around matters of reform.

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Margaret Thatcher unalterably changed the face of Britain. The volume opens with a brief biography, which includes coverage of Thatcher's monetary and social market policies, her special relationship with Ronald Reagan, her foreign and domestic policies, and her attitudes toward women and equal opportunity issues.