The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that "e;iron triangles"e; operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members of Congress, all presumably with a stake in preserving regulation that protected the industries from competition.
Love is a Journey is the remarkable story of Albino Luciani, known to the world as Pope John Paul I, from his harrowing birth to his tragic death just 33 days into his 1978 pontificate-the shortest pontificate in history.
The United States military has evolved from a tiny and distrusted institution at the margins of government into a central element of America and American power, yet the military is sometimes hard to comprehend because of its unique language, history, and culture.
This history of the 1787 Constitutional Convention uses a chronological narrative format to capture the complexity, messiness, and unfolding daily drama behind the writing of the U.
For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera.
Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time theyre going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination.
In the final two decades of British rule in Ireland the Roman Catholic Church saw its pre-eminent role in the control of schooling threatened by the secularist and democratic reforms of the imperial administration.
This book examines law''s complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions and places today''s responses to emergency in historical and institutional context.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency that comprises three bureaus: the Bureau of Competition ("e;BC"e;); the Bureau of Consumer Protection ("e;BCP"e;); and the Bureau of Economics, which supports both BC and BCP.
Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them.
The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period.
This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of September, grouped according to topics.
In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's "e;Creator"e; and "e;Nature's God,"e; on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand.
This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of September, grouped according to topics.
This book provides a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of the invocation and interaction of religious and national assertions in sacralizing local and global politics.
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change.
We often hear-with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings-that justices should not create constitutional rights, but should instead enforce the rights that the Constitution enshrines.
The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience.
Without a doubt, the institution of the presidency today is quite different from the one that existed throughout the early part of the nations history, despite only minimal revisions to its formal constitutional structure.