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New technology is introduced for the purpose of improving our control over a certain task: however, software, AI and robots often cause understandable fears of machines taking control of us. This is what Ezio di Nucci calls the control paradox.

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Although recognizing that Africa's economic decline has resulted from poorly designed policy, the contributors also attempt to place that policy in its historical and cultural context. Similarly, they establish a comparative perspective for Africa's economic performance, and point to outside forces that have been overlooked.

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The first edition of The Death of Deliberation explained why gridlock does not happen, and this edition expands that argument to account for gridlock when it does occur. The result is the first comprehensive explanation of how the Senate actually works in practice.

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With the cold war over and the Soviet empire dead, a new examination of American national policies and priorities is beginning. At the end of World War II, it became the leader of the free world, a world empire of unprecedented power.

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This synthesis of the strands of distributional analysis used in social policy, welfare theory and public finance uses basic constructions from calculus, probability and the economics of consumer behaviour in a mathematical treatment of the distribution and redistribution of income.

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A veteran White House reporter asks, Can a president's private life be separated from his performance in office

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This book is the first general introduction to the economies of central Asia, specifically the recently independent countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Richard Pomfret provides a historical and structural analysis of this area of the former Soviet Union, with an emphasis on their economic situation since i

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This is a path breaking study of the European Union's impact on UK central government. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with the EU's impact on central government across the period from the UK's first application to join in 1961 right up to the end of the Blair administration. -- .

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The evolution in parliaments' roles, the reasons for this and the challenges that lie in wait for future progress are all considered, with Ireland's stop-start parliamentary adaptation, the role of the Lisbon Treaty and economic crises in accelerating reform carefully analysed. -- .

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This volume offers both historical and contemporary perspectives on the office of the governor, covering all 50 states and providing a comprehensive examination of the executive branch at the state level.

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Throughout these accounts, ample references provide guidance to relevant source materials and authorities.

Part II includes profiles of the principal units of the Executive Office and biographical sketches of a large representative sample of the leaders of those units as well as the senior staff of the White House Office.

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This work aims to show how a higher levy on gasoline would be a more effective way to promote energy efficiency in the United States. The authors examine policies in different countries; show how regultory measures have failed in the United States; and offer suggestions for new directions.

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The U.S. government takes in and spends almost $2 trillion annually, and setting the budget that guides federal spending is an enormously complex undertaking.

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"An authoritative, illuminating look at America's future and the "tests" the United States must meet to maintain leadership and power in the 21st century-from the former US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe"--

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Over the last two decades, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts to reform the way they manage their programs. Citizens in nations like Mongolia and Sweden, New Zealand, and the United States have demanded smaller, cheaper, more effective governments.

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The contributors, both scholars and policymakers, examine a range of contemporary issues in the Balkans and on NATO's southern flank. The essays shed light on nation building, political and economic development, modernization, and post-Cold War international relations.

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With the debate over health care consuming the nation, this timely book looks at the evolution of healthcare policy in the United States throughout its history.

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This study explores how Soviet leaders shaped the image their state cast since the death of Stalin. Each leader approached this task with a different strategy, and each strategy had direct consequences for Soviet behavior abroad and for the coherence of the Soviet state at home.