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Targeted federal aid to needy city areas is difficult to maintain because of political pressure to broaden geographical coverage for continued legislative support, i.e., aid becomes distributive rather than targeted. The effectiveness of a program declines because of the broadening of the program, if all else remains constant.

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In an era of unprecedented budget problems, can Congress establish legislative procedures to facilitate making politically difficult budget decisions

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Chapter contributors examine political, military, and foreign policy processes from micro and macro perspectives in documenting how President Bush personally dominated U.S. national security policy and was the driving force behind the United Nations-backed coalition of nations against Saddam Hussein.

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Traces the dwindling of public trust in the news and shows how people pay less attention to it than they once did. The author argues that the news media's influence over public opinion has decreased considerably as a result, and so has the president's ability to influence the public through the news media.

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This study examines the role of privacy in American political thought, specifically, the rise, implementation, and consequences of the conservative social policies of the Reagan-Bush era as they relate to the question of privacy.

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The nonwhite race of domestic and overseas colonial people established important links between American domestic racial policies and the racial policies and the racial dimension of American overseas colonies.

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Sandler contends that the impact of the nation in foreign policy is not synonymous with that of the State. As such, the work is of concern to all students of Israeli politics and foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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In this comprehensive review of the major death penalty issues, the authors systematically dismantle each one of these myths about capital punishment in a hard-hitting critique of how our social, political, and community leaders have used fear and myth (symbolic politics) to misrepresent the death penalty as a public policy issue.

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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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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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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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This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy.

These are the key questions that this primary textbook for courses on American public policymaking and environmental policymaking addresses and attempts to answer.

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Tracing the antecedents and the creation of the U.S. Department of Transportation, this work assesses its role in both the control of transportation and the encouragement of big businesses in the industry.

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This work examines and contrasts U.S. decisions concerning military intervention in Lebanon in 1958 and 1982, and how the decisions made by Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan resulted in certain outcomes and avoided others.

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Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.

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Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.

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