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Presidential Communication is the first book to combine a study of the presidency with communications.

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Kuypers employs a new historical/critical approach to analyze both the press and the Clinton administration's handling of three international crisis situations. Using case studies of Bosnia, Haiti, and the alleged North Korean nuclear buildup in 1993, he examines contemporary presidential crisis communication and the functions of the press.

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Presidential Decision Making and Military Intervention in the PostCold War Era analyzes eight case studies of presidential decision making and military intervention and non intervention since the end of the Cold War.

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Examines the administrative tools and techniques that US presidents have used to influence environmental policy and legislation through the years. A major portion of the book assesses current techniques and recent administrations, particularly the Reagan, Carter and Bush strategies.

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This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in the United States.

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An evaluation of presidential efforts to achieve greater control over policy implementation by intransigent federal bureaucracies.

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Jacob and Schultz examine in this new and updated volume the phenomena of presidential swing states in the 2016 US presidential election. They explore the reasons why some states and, now counties, seem repeatedly to be the focus of candidate attention and capable of voting for either of the major candidates and being decisive in determining who wins the presidency.

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This book consists of notes of conversations by one of America's leading Latin Americanists, as well as his correspondence with more than two dozen presidents of the Central American republics, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

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Concluding a five-volume collection of documents and conversations with the leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean, this text provides material on significant political leaders of the Caribbean since World War II. Norman Manley, Errol Barrow and Luis Munoz Marin are featured.

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This new analysis of governing ideas in U.S. foreign policy shows how they arise, are sustained and challenged both domestically and internationally, and become part of the world order.

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What kind of civic culture and virtues are required to maintain and develop a decent regime The aim of this collection is to explore this theme from the perspective of the films of John Ford.

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This book analyzes the prison systems in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Leading experts discuss the state of the prison systems in their respective countries, focusing on trends of overcrowding, high recidivism rates, harsh drug laws, human rights, and the relationship between prisons, drug trafficking, and organized crime.

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This is an insightful overview of what is happening at the cutting edge of professional public policy analysis.

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In this book foreign policy experts analyze current U.S.security concerns and the adequacy (or inadequacy) of current policies designed to address them. The authors present both the big picture and the smaller components of the U.S. security policy that make up the whole.

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Insiders and frequent visitors evaluate the state of public administration today for scholars, students, and practitioners in public administration and political science.

This unique appraisal opens with a general discussion of public administration in China and the teaching of administrative science.

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This volume demonstrates that the "progressive" goal of achieving scientific management of the public lands has not been realised; instead, public land management has been dominated by interest group politics and ideology. It analyses public land policy and documents major failures.

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Based upon a sampling of some 800 public agency heads, division and bureau chiefs in 10 states, this study explores the world of state public management.

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After preparing to lead a quiet life as a teacher and scholar of political theory, William Galston has spent the past quarter century crossing the boundaries between academia and public life, including a two-year stint as Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy under President Cl...

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This book tracks Americans changing attitudes about smoking over the last century. It carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking, how the tobacco industry sought to reframe smoking, and how public support for tobacco control affected lawsuits, elections, and public policies.

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Originally published by Winthrop Publishers, Inc. in 1974, this volume concentrates upon the role of major political institutions in policy-making: interest groups, political parties, the presidency, Congress, courts, and the bureaucracy, covering both the formal and the informal context within which these institutions operate.

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Drawing upon experts in Asian economics, public management, law, and the physical and political sciences from leading universities around the world, the editors of this unusual volume examine the critical challenges now facing this important sector of the world: growth, income security, and fiscal reform;

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In this study, Chinese and Western specialists analyse the nature of public policymaking in China, specific measures and alternatives, and various methodological approaches. Topics include reform of the social security system, health care administration and environmental control.