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Requiem for Modern Politics : The Tragedy of the Enlightenment and the Challenge of the New Millennium
William Ophuls
Paperback - $84.95
Ophuls examines the contradictory and self-destructive character of political systems founded on Hobbesian (or "liberal") premises, concluding that we must now invent a new form of politics, if not a new mode of civilization--one rooted in a fresh co ...
The New Hampshire Primary and the American Electoral Process
Naill Palmer
Paperback - $75.95
"New Hampshire is the subject of Palmer's book precisely because it serves as the first presidential primary every four years. Many critics of the New Hampshire primary fault it for being too arcane, t"
The American Democracy, Alternate Edition
Thomas E. Patterson
Paperback - $217.95
This comprehensive text is known for its engaging narrative and its positive presentation of the latest developments in scholarship and real-life politics. Through the use of narrative, "The American Democracy" weaves together theory, information, an ...
Federal Tax Policy
Joseph A. Pechman
Paperback - $47.95
This fifth edition of Federal Tax Policy, like its predecessors, is intended to explain such issues so that the interested citizen may better understand and contribute to public discussion of tax policy. This edition reflects tax developments between ...
Britain's Modernised Civil Service
Robert Pyper
Hardcover - $184.95
This comprehensively revised replacement volume for Robert Pyper's popular text "The British Civil Service" explains and assesses the impact on the civil service of the historic Whitehall unitary model, the New Public Management of Thatcher and Major ...
Electoral System Design : The New International Idea Handbook
Andrew Reynolds
Paperback - $41.95
Different electoral systems and the contributing factors involved when modifying an existing system are discussed in this comprehensive guide. Case studies explain how and why certain electoral systems were adopted in countries such as Brazil, China, ...
Balancing the Federal Budget : Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?
Irene Rubin
Paperback - $71.95
In this timely new book, one of America's most respected public administration analysts focuses her attention on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the US federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrat ...
Creating the Secret State
David F. Rudgers
Hardcover - $70.95
While much has been disclosed about the CIA's cloak-and-dagger activities during the Cold War, relatively little is known about the real origins of this secret organization. David Rudgers, a 22-year CIA veteran, has written the first complete account ...
Encyclopedia of Media and Politics
Todd M. Schaefer
Hardcover - $372.95
The relationship between media and politics receives constant attention and creates heated debate. The Encyclopedia of Media and Politics offers an authoritative, unbiased exploration of the intersection between media and politics, from larger themes ...