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America's Bitter Pill
Random House Publishing Group 2015; US$ 18.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account... more...
Congress in Black and White
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 24.00Provides the first systematic examination of the effect of a legislator's race above and beyond the effect of constituency racial characteristics. more...
Bitter Harvest
John Blake Publishing 2008; US$ 5.99In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black... more...
Constituency Representation in Congress
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 37.00Why legislators in the US House see only a few active and resource-rich constituents in their district. more...
Great Theatre
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 28.00Congressional life and behaviour is dissected and placed in the broader context of changes in Congress in the 1990s. more...
No Way To Pick A President
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 6.79A premier political reporter considers our presidential politics and how to improve them-an essential book as campaign 2000 gets under way. Jules Witcover, who has covered every presidential election since 1952, here combines unparalleled anecdotal knowledge about Presidential politics with scintillating wisdom about just what's wrong with those... more...
From the Active to the Enabling State
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 115.00This book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the changing role of officials. more...
From Postbox to Powerhouse
Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 39.99The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is the heart of government in Australia. Its history reveals the growing sophistication in the way politics and government are managed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the day-to-day workings of the most i more...
Beyond Hanoi
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2004; US$ 67.50This is the first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the countrys reunification in 1975. Beyond Hanoi addresses four questions: what local institutions and offices have authority to govern; who are the local officials and how do they get their positions; what do local governments do and whose interests... more...
Indonesia: The Challenge of Change
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2005; US$ 21.00This book contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia, on 16 February 2005.... more...