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Defends the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. This book challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people.

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Analyses the development of welfare reform policy following New Labour's ascent to power in 1997 to show how ideas, actors, and structures can constrain policy options. This work looks at the contrasting ideas of Frank Field, Minister for Welfare Reform in 1997-8, and of Gordon Brown, and also shows how Brown's approach eventually came to prevail.

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These thought-provoking analyses and policy implementations will interest scholars and students of European History and Politics, Comparative Politics, United States Foreign Policy and Defense, as well as government policy makers and decision makers in international business.

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The period from Election Day to Inauguration Day in America seems impossibly short. Newly elected U.S. presidents have less than eleven weeks to construct a new government composed of supporters and strangers, hailing from all parts of the nation.

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Drawing on past presidencies and how they have led to today's political climate, What in the World Is Going On Here takes a look at the social, political, and economic highlights--and lowlights--of the 21st century.

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This book examines ways in which communities can affect change by providing strategies on creating and developing communities that enables people to live their lives.

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Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison, has in fact grown outmoded. But if Madison himself could peer at the present, what would he think of the state of key political institutions Contribotors to this study explore the contemporary performance of Madison's constitutional legacy.

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Lemieux shows how free trade improves the lives of American consumers, especially the poor. The narrow agenda of the protectioniststo protect a small minority of producers at the expense of millions of their fellow Americansis the wrong path for an increasingly diverse and complex economy. This concise primer shows you why.

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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