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Examines the new conventional wisdom about federal grants. Through documentary research and hundreds of interviews with local, state, and federal administrators and elected officials, the authors consider the implementation and operation of federal programs for education, health care, and housing in four urban areas to learn which programs worked, when, and why.

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A detailed examination of the clash between appointed and career employees in a federal bureaucracy.

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This collection of 79 oral histories offers a remarkable window into public housing's past in Chicago through the voices of its former residents and staff. Public housing was once a paradise of good housing, positive community, and careful managementa past that offers a blueprint for public housing's future.

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Offers evidence on Congress' influence on presidential war powers. This book concludes that presidents are systematically less likely to exercise military force when their partisan opponents retain control of Congress.

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This book adopts a policy-based approach toward internet governance. It broadens the definition of internet governance and reintroduces the question of who governs the actual activity that occurs on the Internet by examining the policy process affecting the Internets infrastructure, technical protocols, software applications, and content.

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This book adopts a policy-based approach toward internet governance. It broadens the definition of internet governance and reintroduces the question of who governs the actual activity that occurs on the Internet by examining the policy process affecting the Internets infrastructure, technical protocols, software applications, and content.

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When did Americans lose faith in their leaders And how can they get it back Elaine Kamarck argues that presidents today spend too much time talking, and not enough time governing. She explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political landscape, and offers recommendations of how the next US president can recreate faith in leadership and run a successful administration.

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Why is the United States the only advanced industrial democracy today without a national health insurance program

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Collaborative democracy government with the people is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality.

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Filling a crucial gap in research on the presidency and presidential communication, Within These Walls goes beyond the study of presidential speeches and examines the organizational structure, systems of information flow, and communication styles in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan.

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This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the United States and other countries are breaking through traditional barriers to achieve unprecedented political power.

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This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the United States and other countries are breaking through traditional barriers to achieve unprecedented political power.

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Environmental and natural resource policy decision making is changing. They address collaboration by featuring a method collaborative learning, that has been designed to address decision making and conflict management needs in complex and controversial policy settings.

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Enormously important and timely...a 'must read' book for policymakers at all levels of government.--Roderick Kramer, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

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Your behind-the-scenes look at the historic showdown between President Donald Trump and the criminal justice system, told through the eyes of the journalist who was in the courtroom each day, capturing every dramatic twist and turn. A panoramic New York thriller unlike any other.

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