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Ratified in 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment imposed a two-term limit on presidents, maintaining checks and balances central to the American Constitution. This book examines its enormous effect on the institution of the presidency, public policy, and national politics.

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Noted experts examine America's power to go to war historically and recently, now that the Cold War has ended.

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Designed to present insiders' views on how consular activities work, this collection of oral history interviews with consular officers is an invaluable resource for diplomatic historians and political scientists.

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Gathers quotations by President Reagan about his childhood, education, political career, opinions on public issues, and perspectives on coping with illness and retirement.

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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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While commonsense attitudes towards the United States Supreme Court have been focused on what decisions they are likely to make, this book focuses on the impacts of other politicized elements of the Court, such as the nomination process, docket selection, and judicial retirements.

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The Unmaking of Gough is the story of the most dramatic and extraordinary eighteen months in Australian political history - a story of power, intrigue and events almost beyond belief.

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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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In the hopes of speeding up the implementation of information-based Supply chain systems in the public sector, this volume presents ten case studies illustrating their successful use in the private sector. The case studies have been reviewed by senior industry and government leaders, who then identi

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This project analyzes how political women rhetorically performdiscursively, visually, and physicallytheir positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other women who have held similar positions in different geopolitical locations.

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This project analyzes how political women rhetorically performdiscursively, visually, and physicallytheir positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other women who have held similar positions in different geopolitical locations.

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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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Although Trump supporters depict him as a champion of the working class and a friend of minorities, this text demonstrates that the preponderance of evidence indicates that Trump promoted a right-wing public policy agenda that exacerbated inequality, benefited the economic elite, and hurt low-income white workers and minorities.