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Designed for scholars interested in the life and historical period of Sam Rayburn, the volume includes a detailed biographical sketch and an extensive annotated bibliography describing the Rayburn resource materials.

The bibliographic entries are divided into three parts: works about Rayburn, Rayburn as author, and archival sources.

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Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, thousands of FBI files, interviews with former agents, and the presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers reveals a man of inalterable ideals and convictions who clung to a private vision of an orderly, traditional America, and who vowed to crush anyone who threatened it.

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A plea for scientific openness and free access to information. This study examines the continuing trend towards the state as chief sponsor and supervisor of research. Foerstel concludes that scientific secrecy is counterproductive, particularly when economics has come to define national security.

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The absence of a one-sided argument, specific policy recommendations, or logical conclusions, enables readers to recognize the importance of the issues at hand and their greater policy implications and to discern lessons that might apply more generally to public policy, administration, and management.

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Analyzes presidential television spots from 1952 through 1996.

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Drawing from his ethnographic work in the former East Germany and with select comparisons to East-Central European states, the author examines the construction of categories of criminality. He argues against the claims that economic growth, liberal democracy, or acts of reconciliation are means to legitimate the transformed East bloc states.

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The inside story of the Rudd government's first term in office. It is a tenure that will be forever defined by the global financial crisis, or - to use the Prime Minster's term - the 'shitstorm' that engulfed the nation and the world. Taylor and Uren uncover the challenges Kevin Rudd and his team faced.

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Unlike government programs for farmers and big businesses, which are usually invisible to the citizenry, small business aid programs are extremely and intentionally visible.

Congress declared the policy of aiding small business and launched the contemporary era of small business assistance programs in the Small Business Act of 1953.

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Such key considerations as the adequacy of protection, the financing problems, issues of fairness, the response to disability, and the health care needs of the elderly are particularly focused on--the authors' are sensitive to the social welfare nature of the programs.

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Invoking a term attributed to Darius the Great over 2,500 years agosound governanceeditors Ali Farazmand and Rosalyn Carter set the stage for a rich and multidimensional collection of essays on emerging issues in public administration around the world.

Topics include: The impact and influence of the United Nations;

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Marks a major new contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy and authority. -- .

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He describes the current and emerging agenda of state and local governments and of the growing number of private profit and not-for-profit organizations that are assuming ever-widening responsibility for leadership and performance in state and local affairs.

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Provides an overview of state and local taxation, the current and future outlook across the nation, the role of taxes in economic development, and tax administration.

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Lentner analyzes four basic components in the formation of states: the capacity to govern, security and freedom of action, economic development strategy, and citizenship and political participation.

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Germany provides an interesting context in which to examine the interplay between state and society by reason of specific features of its history. This volume assesses the five different forms of state or types of political regime in the period 1880 to 1980.

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This is a revision of Zimmerman's study of relations between state and local government. This edition adds a fourth decade of research to bring the material up to the early 1990s. A chapter is added on state mandates and local government.

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This is a revision of Zimmerman's study of relations between state and local government. This edition adds a fourth decade of research to bring the material up to the early 1990s. A chapter is added on state mandates and local government.

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Statesmen Who Changed the World provides extensive essays on more than 70 statesmen of the Western world, covering the time period from the 15th century to the present.

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Simultaneously published in Spanish as Stranger: el desafio de un inmigrante latino en la era de Trump.

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Revised and updated, this compendium helps readers identify and understand the scope of key government reference sources-traditional books (including publications catalogs and telephone directories);