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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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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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The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this statement against the American war in Vietnam critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the "new mandarins" - who gave ideological cover for the war.

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The author maintains that American politics, institutional arrangements, and political culture have prevented the development of a comprehensive, integrated, intermodal transportation policy in the United States.

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The United States continues to maintain a large nuclear arsenal guided by a deterrence strategy little changed since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Notwithstanding changes in the size and composition of nuclear forces brought about since 1991, the fundamental rationales and planning principles which informed U.

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An Ethical Turn In Governance: The Call for a New Development Narrative invites a unique policy response to the pressing question of how can governance be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted by the public policy solutions to mitigate the anguish of Caribbean development.

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Highlighting American cultural and political contexts, this book provides an in-depth assessment of the breadth and magnitude of the United States' errors in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

An Unmitigated Disaster chronicles and explains the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country, which continues on a massive scale t...

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In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects. Nearly half a century later, what are the results Appalachian Legacy provides the answers.

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Arms, Revenue, and Entitlements: U.S. Deficits in the Cold War, 1945-1991 explores how defense, tax, and entitlement policies caused the U.S. government to become deficit normative during the Cold War era, arguing that only a comprehensive program can rein in deficits in the twenty-first century.

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One of the most dramatic and least studied policy changes of the past twenty years is the increased use of indexing - automatic adjustments for inflation - in federal programs. R. Kent Weaver examines the reasons for the growth of indexing in federal programs and its consequences for current policy. He focuses on indexing debates in six policy areas.

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Explains how regulatory decisions in areas such as public health, technological safety and environmental quality are moulded and recast. It finds that "scientific uncertainty" is a key factor, with agencies, interest groups, Congress and the courts attempting to shift responsibility of proof.

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In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment. The author argues that the government should fill the gap with government employment and should discourage imports from developing countries.

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Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.

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Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.

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Americans are awash in debt, and the U.S. economy is in trouble. Credit undergirds daily life more than ever it has become one of the defining aspects of American life, and the ramifications are becoming clearer by the day.

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Explores the political challenges of responding to a stigmatized condition, and identifies ethnic boundaries - the formal and informal institutions that divide societies - as a central influence on politics and policymaking.

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Addressing the question as to whether political systems are likely to shape the choices, uses and effects of technological progress, this book studies Brazil's national alcohol programme, "Proalcool". It also assesses whether technology has the potential for changing the Brazilian economy.

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The historian James Allen Smith traces the evolution of Washington's oldest and prototypical think tank on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1991.