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Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest.

Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending.

For well over two centuries, the United States Constitution has served as a charter for a free, democratic government and for a country that has risen from a dicey political experiment to an economic and political superpower.

Franco-American diplomatic relations were tested at pivotal moments in world history.

William Galston explores the difficulties market democracies face in an era of diminished growth and a weakened middle class.

The Economics of Excess discusses both standard and behavioral economics as they apply to addiction, indulgence, and social policy.

The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.

Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Third Edition is a complete guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today, as well as the cutting edge technologies that are shaping the future.

The Handbook of Traffic Psychology covers all key areas of research in this field including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce risk on roadways.

Transportation and Health provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the many linkages between transport and health, the available tools needed to estimate and evaluate the health impacts of transport, future technologies, the developments that can change the direction and magnitude of the health impacts, and the policy and education issues that can result in better practice and knowledge translation.

This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells.

Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy explores the issue of memory and lack of reconciliation in East Asia.

Bus Transport: Demand, Economics, Contracting, and Policy examines in one source the most critical and current research themes of public transport relevant to regulators, planners, operators, researchers and educators.

Shared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years.

In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice.

The American economy is in many ways uniquely unfettered.

This book constitutes a first-of-its-kind synthesis of the development of journalism in Brazil, considering both its mediations with national social and political life and its relationships of influence and dependence on international economic centers.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote.

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done.

Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies.

The classic account of how the Equal Rights Amendment failed, and what that means for democratic politics and equality.

When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest.

Congress today is falling short.

For over twenty-five years, Charles C.

Using the latest empirical and conceptual research for readers in economics, business, and policy, this volume surveys the key components of innovation policy and the social returns to innovation investment.

The impact of sibling relationships on how people develop has been dramatically under-emphasised in the literature on child development.

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare.

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority.

An insightful rethinking of the meaning of the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom.

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making.

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent.

A timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their assumptions.

Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort.

Why we're better off treating corporations as people under the law-and making them behave like citizensAre corporations people?

The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection   How are congressional party leaders chosen?

An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant worldIs America fated to decline as a great power?

Since Roe v.

What if there were more women in Congress?

"e;A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.

This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have.

An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country’s political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens?

"e;Superbly written, filled with brilliant insights .

To understand American politics and government, we need to recognize not only that members of Congress are agents of societal interests and preferences but also that they act with a certain degree of autonomy and consequence in the country’s public sphere.

The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of “big data,” which is now an integral part of governance and policy making.

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies.

Warren G.

An examination of the U.

An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcherThe story of the rare coastal California gnatcatcher is a parable for understanding the larger ongoing struggle to conserve biodiversity in regions confronted with intensifying urban development.

Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States.