Product Description: This reader offers succinct overviews of classic ideas and foundations of American government framed by contemporary issues and writings. Students are introduced to the classic debates, institutions, and individuals that shape American politics through key primary documents and shown how these issues remain at the core of policy making today...read more

Product Description: Book by Wilson, James Q., DiIulio, Jr. John J.

Product Description: This volume contains speeches from a conference co-sponsored by Hudson Institute and The Johnson Foundation. It includes contributions from leading thinkers including John DiIulio, director of the new White House Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Don Eberly, the Offices deputy director, Washington Post columnist and Brookings fellow E...read more

Product Description: How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program. Drawing on the insights of leading scholars and top state health care officials, this volume analyzes the policy and management implications of various options for Medicaid devolution...read more

Product Description: More than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two. This collection of essays explores the unsettled—and often unsettling—question of organized religion's role in contemporary public life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The brief edition maintains the framework of the complete text, emphasizing the historical development of the American political system, who governs, and to what end. Revisions include updated examples, tables, and figures; complete coverage through the 2004 Presidential election; and expanded discussion of domestic and foreign and defense policy in two new chapters--Chapter 12, Making Domestic Policy and Chapter 13, Making Foreign and Military Policy...read more

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Product Description: The nation's federal, state, and local public service is in deep trouble. Not even the most talented, dedicated, well-compensated, well-trained, and well-led public servants can serve the public well if they must operate under perverse personnel and procurement regulations that punish innovation and promote inefficiency...read more

Examines the future of America's corrections system and offers practical advice for reform

Product Description: By some definitions, most American prisons and jails are overcrowded; by any definition, many penal facilities are filthy and violence-ridden. Over the last twenty years, dozens of state and local corrections systems have come under court orders to reform...read more

Clears up misconceptions about the U.S. prison system, compares prisons in Texas, California, and Michigan, and suggests ways to improve prison management