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This much revised and expanded edition guides researchers to sources that provide information about the general and specific subjects which form the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government.

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This edited volume highlights different intersections between public administration and policy and the food system. Viewed collectively, the editors argue that the lenses and languages of public administration can and should become a common ground for scholars and practitioners to discuss food systems.

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In Administrative Renewal, the periodic efforts to reorganize the executive branch during the 20th century are examined and analyzed. Receiving special attention are the landmark commissions, such as the Hoover Commissions of mid-century, to determine how they influenced the theory and practice of democratic administration.

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For over 30 years the authors have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. This text summarizes their findings and compares them with other studies. It also advocates and demonstrates the positive effects of transracial and intercountry adoptions.

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This book investigates how changing norms of sovereignty may promote better governance in Africa. It begins by tracing the evolution of the concept of sovereignty and how, in the post-Cold War era, sovereignty has been redefined to emphasize the responsibility of the state to manage conflict and protect human rights.

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This text presents a comprehensive analysis of the political economies of refugee encampments. It draws upon studies of over 30 encampments, to illustrate the economic interaction between the camps and the neighbouring host communities.

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This text examines the extent to which the 1991-2 crisis in Algeria had its origins in the competing ideologies and policy choices of the Boumediene era (1965-78).

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This book takes the reader on a rhetorical journey through Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, focusing on Clinton's sophisticated 'You Tube' style announcement speech, the debates, and the many notable stump speeches and media events on the campaign trail. Along the...

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Few days pass without front page newspaper articles about the disarray in the American social security system and the oncoming crisis of exploding costs and imbalance between workers and retirees.

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America's Growing Inequality presents the links between racism and poverty in the United States, highlighting the work of social justice organizations to facilitate an end to their presence in society. The facts, analyses, and policy proposals that comprise this book will inform scholars and students in a range of disciplines including sociology, social work, urban planning, and economics.

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THIS BOOK IS ABOUT POLITICS AND AMERICA'S SOCIETY. Part l focuses on what happened to America during the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses health, economy, social justice, and leadership issues. Part ll focuses on the 2020 and 2024 elections, leadership, cultism, criminality, and making wise choices.

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Challenging the wisdom that we need less government, this book maps out a different road for the future, a road paved by a government actively engaged in effecting positive changes in all areas of social concern.

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Challenging the wisdom that we need less government, this book maps out a different road for the future, a road paved by a government actively engaged in effecting changes in all areas of social concern.

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A growing body of research informs us that an effective, efficient fight against chronic American poverty, producing benefits far exceeding costs, is possible. It begins by protecting children from developmental risks. This book describes those risks, along with the programs a...

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American Federalism and Individual Rights presents the founding concepts of federalism and individualrights, and facilitates a discussion of their compatibility. Through the lens of policy analysis, the author discovers ways in which federalism has both helped and hindered the protection of individual rights in the United States.

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American Federalism and Individual Rights presents the founding concepts of federalism and individualrights, and facilitates a discussion of their compatibility. Through the lens of policy analysis, the author discovers ways in which federalism has both helped and hindered the protection of individual rights in the United States.

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This comprehensive volume, the product of a three-year project supported by the Aspen Institute's program on the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy, provides the most thorough effort ever to assess the impact and significance of America's large foundations. In it, leading researchers explore how foundations have shaped - or failed to shape - each of the key fields of foundation work.

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Arranged alphabetically by name of state, the book contains brief biographical data on governors, including date of birth, birth place, residence, occupation, party affiliation, date and age at death, and date and age on assuming office.

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The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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The last of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont.

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Written as a primary text for introductory courses in foreign policy, but also for the attention of the informed general reader, this volume proposes the concept of national interest as the organizing principle of American foreign policy.

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In the summer of 1968 as killing and starvation escalated in Biafra in a war that used famine as a weapon, the West African conflict attracted media attention and U.S. officials felt strong domestic pressure to expand American involvement in Nigeria's civil war.

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