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New political interests also exist with the recent emergence of a new panoply of independent Pacific island states, extension of U.S. sovereignty to other Pacific islands, and new defense responsibilities in several states linked to the United States by free association.

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New political interests also exist with the recent emergence of a new panoply of independent Pacific island states, extension of U.S. sovereignty to other Pacific islands, and new defense responsibilities in several states linked to the United States by free association.

John C.

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Studies affirmative action and offers an empirical account of the citizen's movement in California that resulted in the passage of a constitutional amendment to abolish such preferences in public education, public employment, and public contracting.

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This volume will be used in courses on international relations, American foreign policy, world politics, Third World politics, global issues, and West European politics.

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This volume will be used in courses on international relations, American foreign policy, world politics, Third World politics, global issues, and West European politics.

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This work treats presidential leadership as persuasive communication. Case studes examine recent US presidents' use of public persuasion to perform their leadership functions, including the sermonic nature of 20th-century presidential discourse and the rhetoric of George Bush and Bill Clinton.

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"Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson--had so many opinions and intellectual interests, beli"

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Members come and go, reforms are attempted and abandoned, but congressional norms of seniority, specialization, and reciprocity adapt, survive, and continue to influence the course of American government.

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In this volume, Xin Ren presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western model of social control. She considers the Maoist concept of revolutionary justice and the tradition of conformist acculturation in China.

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Published in partnership with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, this book offers insightful examinations of congressional success and failure from the New Deal to today by leading political scholars and journalists. This analysis identifies lessons learned throughout history relevant to present and future politics.

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A concise, well-written examination by a lawyer-historian of the judicial restraint philosophies of President Truman's four appointees to the Supreme Court: Harold Burton, Fred Vinson, Tom Clark, and Sherman Minton.

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This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy.

These are the key questions that this primary textbook for courses on American public policymaking and environmental policymaking addresses and attempts to answer.

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A reference history that describes not only the State Department and Foreign Service of the United States, but also deals with the history of three major State Department functions, namely, the treatymaking process and record, representation in international conferences, and participation in international organizations and other agencies.

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Tracing the antecedents and the creation of the U.S. Department of Transportation, this work assesses its role in both the control of transportation and the encouragement of big businesses in the industry.

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A legal scholar details the creation and function of the Department of Homeland Security, placing it in historical context.

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This work examines and contrasts U.S. decisions concerning military intervention in Lebanon in 1958 and 1982, and how the decisions made by Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan resulted in certain outcomes and avoided others.

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This first systematic critique on the rhetoric of 21 presidents shows how political constraints shaped rhetoric and how oratory shaped politics.

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Woven through Perret's exploration of Grant as soldier and president is the author's portrait of the American hero as a person, including his frustrating studies at West Point and his days of poverty.

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The third edition of a trusted text book for A level students and first-year undergraduates. Provides a high-quality, fully up-to-date, accessible guide to American government and politics. -- .

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This volume, the second of a multi-volume reference work, presents county and district demographic data and the geographical location of American congressional districts between 1789 and 1942.

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United States Congressional Districts and Data, 1883-1913 is an atlas of U.S. congressional districts and almost 10 times the size of Rosenbach's effort and half a century longer in scope.

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Written for social scientists who study the judiciary, legal scholars, judges, and others who are interested in the workings of the federal courts, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of the role of U.S. magistrates--the relatively invisible subordinate judicial officers within the federal district courts.