Product Description: The Imperiled Presidency: Presidential Leadership in the 21st Century calls for a dramatic re-evaluation of the American president’s role within the separation of powers system. In contrast with claims by academics, pundits, media, and members of Congress, this provocative new book argues that the contemporary American presidency is too weak rather than too strong...read more

Product Description: CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS IN AMERICAN POLITICS uses its titled theme to underscore both real life politics as well as the theory behind how American Politics is supposed to work. The book's organizational framework, as well as features in each chapter, makes these connections clear to students of American Government and offer, therefore, an accurate and positive view of how and why politics and government in the U...read more

Product Description: CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS IN AMERICAN POLITICS uses its titled theme to underscore both the theory of American Politics as well as real life application of theory. The book's organizational framework, as well as features in each chapter, makes these connections clear to students of American Government and offer, therefore, an accurate and positive view of how and why politics and government in the U...read more

Product Description: In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10930, the first step in a long series of efforts to regulate the ethical behavior of executive branch officials. A few years later Lyndon B. Johnson required all senior officials to report assets and sources of non-government income to the Civil Service Commission...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The first of an annual series of monographs which presents a topical and provocative discussion of foot and ankle surgery, this work includes essays on ankle arthroscopy, ankle instability, posterior tibial tendon pathology, calcaneal fractures, nerve entrapments, shoewear, imaging techniques, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, and rehabilitation...read more

Product Description: This brief alternative to the successful THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT presents the essentials of American government and encourages students to think critically, not cynically, about their government. A complete chapter on Policy formulation allows instructors to address specific policy issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: By the beginning of the 1990s, the average confirmation time for a presidential appointee had lengthened from two months to eight and a half months, while the average period such an appointee actually served in office dropped to just over two years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Americans are disenchanted with politics, their government, and their leaders. For evidence, we don’t have to look very far: the elections of 1994 turned over control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and the new House Republicans’ Contract with America was the biggest single anti-government initiative since the Boston Tea Party, with term limits, campaign finance reform, and a balanced budget amendment high on its list of priorities...read more

Product Description: For years now, Americans have called for a balanced budget, debt reduction, and fiscal sanity. Yet the federal government continues to spend beyond its income, driving the level of federal debt up and public confidence down. Why is that? Why have the monsters of public finance—pork-barrel spending, entitlements, and the deficit—remained unchecked for so long? What effects have they had on our economy and our politics? What, if anything, can be done to tame them?This concise, well-written primer of American political economy offers answers to these questions and more, all the while covering a vast and complicated intellectual terrain in an accessible and engaging way...read more

Product Description: This brief alternative to the successful THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT presents the essentials of American government and encourages students to think critically, not cynically, about their government. A complete chapter on Policy formulation allows instructors to address specific policy issues...read more

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Product Description: Book by MacKenzie, G. Calvin.