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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...
Die Organisation der brasilianischen Grenzsicherheitspolitik
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 47.99Citizen Lobbyists
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Citizen Lobbyists explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects theory and empirical data in a new and revealing... more...
Collaborating to Manage
Georgetown University Press 2012; US$ 29.95Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era wheregovernment must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies towork together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoffexamines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grantsand regulation... 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...
What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports
Regnery Publishing 2010; US$ 27.95Politics and sports: they?re two of America?s greatest passions. And George Allen—former U.S. Senator, former Virginia Governor, and son of the great NFL coach George Allen, Sr.—brings these two worlds together in his new book, The Triumph of Character: What Washington Can Learn From the Principles of Sports . Having spent his life with... more...
Effective Use of Information Technology
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The California Department of Information Technology was to provide leadership, guidance, and oversight for IT initiatives and projects throughout the state. In 2002 the agency?s sunset clause was allowed to take effect and it ceased to exist. To determine what lessons can be learned from states with exemplary practices in IT governance, the authors... more...
Understanding the Insider Threat
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Reports the results of a workshop on the problems of ensuring the security of information against malevolent actions by insiders in the intelligence community (IC) with access to sensitive information and information systems. Attendees discussed community system models, vulnerabilities and exploits, attacker models, and event characterization, and... more...









