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Brings together four schools of institutional analysis - rational choice, organizational, historical, and discursive institutionalism - to examine the rise of neoliberalism. It examines neoliberalism's rise on three continents and explores changes in macroeconomic policy, labor markets, taxation, banking, and health care.

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A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, this title traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies.

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From the President of the American Enterprise Institute, the follow-up to the hugely influential The Battle: a candid assessment of how mainstream America can take the philosophy of free enterprise and translate it into political action--restoring b

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The genesis of President Clinton's plan for health security.

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"Little did we know ... when the idea of the book first took form, that just over two years later the volume would become a way of celebrating the life of Rene Girard, who died on November 4, 2015, while this manuscript was in production. Girard leaves an enormous intellectual legacy, which the present volume seeks to honour, interrogate, and keep alive."--Acknowledgments.

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Intends to defend the European Enlightenment's secularization of political philosophy by promoting an understanding of Enlightenment secular liberalism and extending it to contemporary issues. The work argues for a different liberalism, as suggested by such contemporary thinkers as William Galston or Stephen Macedo.

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Examines the secularization of political theory during the European Enlightenment and the ramifications for current debates.

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This text examines why Singapore's democratic practices have declined as its prosperity has increased. It explores both sides, for and against Singapore's government, and suggests reasons for the situation.

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Both men are recognized as the products of their life experiences, their occupations as author and scientist respectively, their views of the social and political legitimacy of the current Soviet regime, and their hopes for the future as expressed in their images of the ideal Soviet society.

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Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism (among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies), this book disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system.

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Presents an analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia (1968-76), and Poland (1980-89). This book also explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and state institutions, and modified the political practices of these regimes.

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The years of Tory Goverment have revealed the shortcomings of a free-market economy: a big shift of economic power to the employers and a sharp rise in in equality.

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Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics.

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Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics.

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This singular collection of original interviews with all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor-as well as reporters, attorneys, and historians-gives readers a rare window into the nation's highest court and those who serve there

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The Sword and the Cross is a study of the relationships that exist between politics and ethics.

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This compendium of essays, articles, speeches, and documents--from notable personalities and ordinary people--strips away the accumulated mythology of the 1960s and lets readers see and feel the tumultuous era with vivid immediacy.

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A revolutionary program for fixing America's most serious domestic problems for just two cents on the national dollar--while we still can