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America Speaks
Triumph Books 2008; US$ 14.99A comprehensive wrap-up of the historic 2008 Presidential election, this book is packed with gorgeous color photographs and buoyed by the insightful journalism of two of the world's news giants This must-have book examines every aspect of the riveting campaign and readers will also travel through 50 States in 50 Days” on the historic joint... more...
Wrong Winner
ABC-CLIO 1991; US$ 27.95This book describes what the authors identify as an emerging political crisis in U.S. politics: the possible winning of the presidency by a candidate with far fewer votes than his or her opponent. David W. Abbott and James P. Levine stress both the irrationality and peculiar nature of the current electoral system, emphasizing recent and current political... more...
Institutions of American Democracy - The Executive Branch
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 29.99DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Executive Branch as an Institution of American Constitutional Democracy, Jaroslav Pelikan INTRODUCTION: Presidents and Bureaucrats: The Executive Branch and American Democracy Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson SECTION I: THE HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXT 1. The Evolution of the Presidency:... more...
The Macropolitics of Congress
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 29.95How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves... more...
Congress Behaving Badly
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 45.00The climate of partisanship and incivility in Congress has steadily worsened since the 1980s. Polarization between congressional factions now paralyzes the legislative process and hobbles democracy. more...
Before the Convention
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 25.00Campaigns to win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are longer, more complex, and more confusing to the observer than the general election itself. The maze of delegate-selection procedures includes state primaries and caucuses as well as the traditional "smoke-filled room." Complicated federal election laws govern campaign financing.... more...
The Senate
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00The story of the United States Senate is more than the description of the powers assigned to the upper house of Congress. This work shows how these powers are considerable, including the making of laws to govern the United States in partnership with the House of Representatives. more...
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 109.99A study of clerical workers in US federal employment from the Civil War to 1900. more...
The Effects of Workforce-shaping Incentives on Civil Service Retirements
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95An increasing number of retirements from federal employment is predicted at the beginning of the 21st century. This work provides estimates of the effects of early retirement incentives, buyout incentives and retention allowances on the retirement rates of federal employees. more...
Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00Presents Jefferson's understanding of executive power. more...









