Second Edition. — University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 368 p. When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would “become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics.” That prediction...
University of Georgia Press, 2022. — 180 p. In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 255 p. How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches. The specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination. Are checks and balances enough to constrain ambitious executives? Checks in the Balance presents a new theory of...
Westview Press, 1990. — 390 p. This fine collection of essays by many of the leading scholars of the subfield is perfectly suited for an upper-level undergraduate class on political parties. With four completely new chapters and nine revised selections, this book contains an impressive array of original scholarship on the recent developments and ongoing concerns regarding the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 255 p. Leading political scientists analyze the presidency of Donald Trump and its impact on the future of American politics. In virtually all respects, the Trump presidency has disrupted patterns of presidential governance. However, does Trump signify a disruption, not merely in political style but in regime type in the United States?...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 336 p. Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents...
Celadon Books, 2020. — 368 p. From Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101, and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, A User's Guide to Democracy is a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works. Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Are you sure you know the difference between the...
Celadon Books, 2020. — 368 p. From Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101, and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, A User's Guide to Democracy is a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works. Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Are you sure you know the difference between the...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 320 p. Can presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that presidents have little if any influence on Congress. Instead, structural factors like party control largely determine the fate of the president’s legislative agenda. In The President on Capitol Hill, Jeffrey...
Beacon Press, 2001. — 116 p. American politics has become an arms race, with money doing the work of missiles. One side escalates and the other follows suit. As the spiral grows it is undermining the soul of democracy. But here's the good news: The majority of Americans want a new system of campaign finance. Every time voters have had a chance to choose a different way, they...
Beacon Press, 2001. — 116 p. American politics has become an arms race, with money doing the work of missiles. One side escalates and the other follows suit. As the spiral grows it is undermining the soul of democracy. But here's the good news: The majority of Americans want a new system of campaign finance. Every time voters have had a chance to choose a different way, they...
Beacon Press, 2001. — 116 p. American politics has become an arms race, with money doing the work of missiles. One side escalates and the other follows suit. As the spiral grows it is undermining the soul of democracy. But here's the good news: The majority of Americans want a new system of campaign finance. Every time voters have had a chance to choose a different way, they...
Beacon Press, 2001. — 116 p. American politics has become an arms race, with money doing the work of missiles. One side escalates and the other follows suit. As the spiral grows it is undermining the soul of democracy. But here's the good news: The majority of Americans want a new system of campaign finance. Every time voters have had a chance to choose a different way, they...
Beacon Press, 2001. — 116 p. American politics has become an arms race, with money doing the work of missiles. One side escalates and the other follows suit. As the spiral grows it is undermining the soul of democracy. But here's the good news: The majority of Americans want a new system of campaign finance. Every time voters have had a chance to choose a different way, they...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 312 p. Liberalism puts its trust in civil discourse and rational argument. Today, its opponents enthusiastically flout these norms, making a show of defying so-called political correctness. In the Trump era and beyond, right-wing figures delight in sheer offensiveness. What is at stake in breaking the rules of civility to "own the libs"? Going...
State University of New York Press, 2019. — 512 p. Introduction to American politics and government, intended for students of political science. Provides a critical examination of both political institutions and political behavior. An original and refreshing introductory text on the United States political system. The originality, coupled with an accessibility of critical...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 888 p. One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 448 p. How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social order. After Donald Trump’s rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 346 p. — ISBN10: 0190650753, ISBN13: 978-0190650759. What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped presidential decision-making in critical...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 305 p. The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce, Dewey, Hook, and Rorty, and combines it with...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. — 225 p. American politics is criticized and belittled by media critics and the public, yet the system is held out as a model for the world. The paradox of this simultaneous cynicism and adulation is rooted in the conflict between the human motives that drive politics.Crisply and clearly written with numerous historical examples, 'How...
8th Texas Edition. — 2011. — 1120 p. — ISBN10: 0393935256, 0393149579. Politics is relevant. The best book for engaging students in American politics is also the most effective for helping students study and learn. We the People emphasizes the ways that government and politics matter and the ways that people can get involved in politics and influence government. In the Eighth...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 375 p. An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers. In this accessible overview of the United States Congress’s past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country’s most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 505 p. Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential aspects of the office, the president's...
Routledge, 2021. — 155 p. Those who saw Donald Trump as a novel threat looming over American democracy and now think the danger has passed may not have been paying much attention to the political developments of the past several decades. Trump was merely the most recent—and will surely not be the last—in a long line of presidents who expanded the powers of the office and did...
University Press of Kansas, 2009. — 336 p. When the first edition of this book appeared in 2003, it was chosen as a Main Selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club and quickly became the standard work on the modern American presidency—from William McKinley through William Jefferson Clinton. In that original edition, Lewis L. Gould argued that, while the...
Routledge, 2013. — 318 p. Reflecting cutting edge scholarship but written for undergraduates, New Directions in Interest Group Politics will help students think critically about influence in the American political system. There is no shortage of fear about "the special interests" in American political debate, but reliable information about what interest groups do, who they...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 247 p. American Exceptionalism Revisited provides a broad overview of the various features that signify American politics. These include the upholding of an exceptional political stability, involving a particular balance between legislative, executive and judicial powers, and the permanence of a unique party system. Furthermore, special...
Pantheon Books, 2000. — 337 p. Washington is big business. John B. Judis, a senior editor for the New Republic, conducts an instructive tour through this corridor of money and power in this work. Cutting to the heart of today's debate, it recommends what we can do to fix our broken system. America has experienced a steady growth of industry and invention over this century—not...
Pantheon Books, 2000. — 337 p. Washington is big business. John B. Judis, a senior editor for the New Republic, conducts an instructive tour through this corridor of money and power in this work. Cutting to the heart of today's debate, it recommends what we can do to fix our broken system. America has experienced a steady growth of industry and invention over this century—not...
Pantheon Books, 2000. — 337 p. Washington is big business. John B. Judis, a senior editor for the New Republic, conducts an instructive tour through this corridor of money and power in this work. Cutting to the heart of today's debate, it recommends what we can do to fix our broken system. America has experienced a steady growth of industry and invention over this century—not...
Pantheon Books, 2000. — 337 p. Washington is big business. John B. Judis, a senior editor for the New Republic, conducts an instructive tour through this corridor of money and power in this work. Cutting to the heart of today's debate, it recommends what we can do to fix our broken system. America has experienced a steady growth of industry and invention over this century—not...
Pantheon Books, 2000. — 337 p. Washington is big business. John B. Judis, a senior editor for the New Republic, conducts an instructive tour through this corridor of money and power in this work. Cutting to the heart of today's debate, it recommends what we can do to fix our broken system. America has experienced a steady growth of industry and invention over this century—not...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 180 p. This book demonstrates both the limits and unique role of non statutory controls in a world that demands a flexible administrative response that might be overly constrained by rigid statutes. It also explains that nature and impact of congressional involvement through non statutory controls. Originally published in 1969.
Avid Reader Press, 2020. — 303 p. Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein is one of former US President Barack Obama’s favorite books and one of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer.” This New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched”...
Avid Reader Press, 2020. — 303 p. Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein is one of former US President Barack Obama’s favorite books and one of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer.” This New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched”...
Avid Reader Press, 2020. — 303 p. Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein is one of former US President Barack Obama’s favorite books and one of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer.” This New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched”...
Avid Reader Press, 2020. — 303 p. Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein is one of former US President Barack Obama’s favorite books and one of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer.” This New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched”...
University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 336 p. When the United States goes to war, the nation’s attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because of Congress’s repeated failure to exercise its legislative powers to rein in...
Kraków : Księgarnia Akademicka, 2016. — 354 s. — ISBN 9788376388090 Zagadnienie finansowania kampanii wyborczych, czy szerzej finansowania polityki, należy obecnie do jednego do najbardziej kluczowych zagadnień, istotnych zarówno z teoretycznego (prawnego) punktu widzenia, jak i z punktu widzenia praktyki. Bez pieniędzy, jak słusznie zauważają Autorzy, nie da się współcześnie...
3rd edition. — Springer VS, 2024. — 733 p. — ISBN 10 3658026421; ISBN 13 9783658396855. Zum Ende der Amtszeit Joe Bidens als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika wurde dieses Handbuch grundlegend überarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert. In den einzelnen Aufsätzen legen ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten der sozialwissenschaftlichen USA-Forschung die grundlegenden...
Routledge, 2017. — 367 p. Ideologues and Presidents argues that ideologues have been gaining influence in the modern presidency. There were plenty of ideologues in the New Deal, but they worked at cross purposes and could not count on the backing of the cagey pragmatist in the Oval Office. Three decades later, the Johnson White House systematically sought the help of hundreds...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 388 p. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough overview of civil rights in U.S. history, detailing all the relevant amendments to the Constitution and reviewing key Supreme Court decisions and landmark cases on the topic. Aimed at general readers as well as high school, college, and university students, it focuses on the role...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 162 p. From two distinguished experts on election law, How to Steal a Presidential Election is an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means at that. This new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading. Even in the fast and...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 162 p. From two distinguished experts on election law, How to Steal a Presidential Election is an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means at that. This new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading. Even in the fast and...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 162 p. From two distinguished experts on election law, How to Steal a Presidential Election is an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means at that. This new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading. Even in the fast and...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 162 p. From two distinguished experts on election law, How to Steal a Presidential Election is an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means at that. This new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading. Even in the fast and...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 162 p. From two distinguished experts on election law, How to Steal a Presidential Election is an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means at that. This new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading. Even in the fast and...
Routledge, 2012. — 129 p. This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy―institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum―endangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority. While advocates of direct democracy advocate that these institutions protect citizens from corrupt lawmakers beholden to special interests, Daniel Lewis’s...
15th Ed. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 463 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393674-93-2, ISBN: 978-0-393674-94-0. A fresh, accessible perspective on the fundamentals. Why does the American political system work the way it does? This major revision brings a renewed focus to the institutions, processes, and data that illuminate big questions about governance and representation in the United...
Textbook, Teacher's edition. — PrenticeHall, Pearson, 2009. — 889 p. Magruder s American Government, first published in 1917 and revised annually, is an enduring symbol of the author's faith in American ideals and American institutions. The life of Frank Abbott Magruder (1882 1949) was an outstanding example o Americanism at its very best. His career as a teacher, author, and...
Routledge, 2018. — 318 p. Unlike leadership in the House of Representatives, the nature of Senate leadership continues to remain a mystery to so many. Due to the absence of an "operator’s manual," leaders have had to use their individual skills, intelligence, and personalities to lead the Senate, which means they each have had their own unique leadership style. How have Senate...
University Press of New England, 2014. — 272 p. To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land. During election season—a near...
Routledge, 2006. — 214 p. A Brief Introduction to American Politics provides a coherent and succinct account of how contemporary American politics blends enduring principles with the realities and demands of the present day. Beginning with a brief overview of American society today, the book introduces the constitutional framework of American politics and the fluid concept and...
Visible Ink Press, 2017. — 465 p. — ASIN B0718X8J3V, ISBN: 1578596394. The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking world veiled in...
Routledge, 2020. — 198 p. A Divided Union delves deep into ten pressing political challenges that former US Representatives Patrick Murphy (D) and David Jolly (R) have identified over their multiple terms in Congress and that continue to plague the American electorate today. In an introduction describing their unique paths to Congress, Murphy and Jolly focus in detail on key...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 280 p. Presidential Image has become an integral part of the campaign, presidency and legacy of Modern American presidents. Across the 20th century to the age of Trump, presidential image has dominated media coverage and public consciousness, winning elections, gaining support for their leadership in office and shaping their reputation in history. Is the...
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Columbia University Press, 2024. — 153 p. Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to “resist.” But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science,...
Columbia University Press, 2024. — 153 p. Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to “resist.” But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science,...
Columbia University Press, 2024. — 153 p. Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to “resist.” But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science,...
Columbia University Press, 2024. — 153 p. Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to “resist.” But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science,...
Columbia University Press, 2024. — 153 p. Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to “resist.” But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science,...
University Press of Kansas, 2020. — 359 p. Democracy is in crisis. Washington is failing. Government is broken. On these counts many politicians, policy experts, and citizens agree. What is less clear is why—and what to do about it. These questions are at the heart of Dynamics of American Democracy, which goes beneath the surface of current events to explore the forces...
11th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. — 704 p. — ISBN10: 007802479X; ISBN13: 978-0078024795. We the People, Eleventh Edition, sets a new standard for showing how government affects students lives and why it matters who participates. The Who Are Americans? theme has been expanded to highlight how Americans from different backgrounds experience politics, and new Who...
13th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. — 675 p. — ISBN 9781259912405. We the People by Thomas Patterson is a concise approach to American Government, emphasizing critical thinking through relevant examples that appeal to today's students. This extremely readable program provides opportunities to engage with the political process through tools that help students learn how...
New York: Princeton Review, 2020. — 431 p. — ISBN: 0525569669. Ace the 2021 AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. Includes 6 full-length practice exams (more than any other major competitor), plus thorough content reviews, targeted test strategies, and access to online extras. Techniques That Actually...
New York: Princeton Review, 2020. — 661 p. — ISBN: 0525569669. Ace the 2021 AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. Includes 6 full-length practice exams (more than any other major competitor), plus thorough content reviews, targeted test strategies, and access to online extras. Techniques That Actually...
Princeton Review, 2020. — 352 p. Grade level: 10 - 12. Everything you need to help score a perfect 5 — now with 50% more practice than previous editions! Ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this comprehensive study guide, including 3 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and access to free...
Princeton Review, 2020. — 352 p. Grade level: 10 - 12. Everything you need to help score a perfect 5 — now with 50% more practice than previous editions! Ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this comprehensive study guide, including 3 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and access to free...
Third Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2022. — 184 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for forty years , takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. He also explores the essential necessity...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 180 p. Donald Trump’s presidency produced no end of controversy. His tumultuous presidency also created new avenues of public policy and national politics. Prominent scholars of American institutions, politics and public policy assess the multiple consequences of Trump’s singular presidency in this volume. How did Trump’s...
Textbook. — Wadsworth, 2012. — 689 p. American Government and Politics Today is known nationwide for its balanced, unbiased, and up-to-date coverage of constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and their processes. American Government and Politics Today encourages students to experience the excitement that comes with being an engaged and informed...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 186 p. Time and again, in recent years, the charge has been made that sitting presidents have behaved “imperially,” employing authorities that break the bounds of law and the Constitution. It is now an epithet used to describe presidencies of both parties. The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution examines this critical issue from a...
Adams Media, 2016. — 264 p. All you need to know about elections, politics, and government! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of government into tedious discourse that would put even the president to sleep. American Government 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you learn. From the backstory of...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 312 p. Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern. Looking at the state of...
Palgrave Pivot, 2023. — 152 p. This book assembles eight chapters by respected and emerging scholars in political science, sociology, and psychology to produce a sustained look at the wide range of identity politics in the 2020 US National Election and the lessons for 2024. These chapters emerged from papers presented at the American Elections Symposium held at the New...
New York: Ballantine Book, 1988. — eISBN 978-0-307-82957-3. Power is the name of the game. But until now, no one outside "the beltway" knew just who was wielding how much-and for what ends. Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex-Washington bureau chief of THE New York TIMES, Hedrick Smith, tells the whole story. From PACs to influence-peddling from the Pentagon to the WASHINGTON POST, THE...
New York: Ballantine Book, 1988. — eISBN 978-0-307-82957-3. Power is the name of the game. But until now, no one outside "the beltway" knew just who was wielding how much-and for what ends. Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex-Washington bureau chief of THE New York TIMES, Hedrick Smith, tells the whole story. From PACs to influence-peddling from the Pentagon to the WASHINGTON POST, THE...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 186 p. Agenda Crossover updates our understanding of state delegations, exploring how they influence representation and responsiveness in Congress today. The theory of agenda crossover posits that members of the House and Senate have much to gain from monitoring the legislative agendas of other members of the delegation, especially those in...
Routledge, 2010. — 380 p. This classic collection of studies, first published in 1980, contributes to the revival of interest in the powers and duties of the American presidency. Unlike many previous books on the constitution and the president, the contributors to this volume are political scientists, not law professors. Accordingly, they display political scientists' concern...
Routledge, 2015. — 480 p. An accessible and comprehensive main text for courses on the presidency, this text argues that to be a successful presidential leader, one must effectively manage the enormous institutional and personal resources - or the "keys to power." Using the "keys to power" theme, Warshaw argues that the presidency is far more powerful today than in past...
М.: Фонд Либеральная миссия; Новое литературное обозрение, 2010. — 320 с. Стабильность американской жизни базируется на двух китах – федеральном государственном устройстве с четким и последовательными разделением ветвей власти и на сильном гражданском обществе со свободой союзов и влиятельными неправительственными организациями. В первой части книги «Как работает Америка»...
М.: Фонд Либеральная миссия; Новое литературное обозрение, 2010. — 320 с. Стабильность американской жизни базируется на двух китах – федеральном государственном устройстве с четким и последовательными разделением ветвей власти и на сильном гражданском обществе со свободой союзов и влиятельными неправительственными организациями. В первой части книги «Как работает Америка»...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: New York, Penguin Books, 2013. 704 p. В этом первом жестком исследовании ExxonMobil — крупнейшей и самой могущественной частной корпорации в Соединенных Штатах автор раскрывает истинные масштабы ее власти. Книга приоткрывает занавес, отслеживая недавнюю историю корпорации и ее центральную роль на мировой арене, начиная с аварии Exxon Valdez...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Арена, 1993. — 320 с.
Как создать подлинно демократическое самоуправляющееся общество, где правит не «правительство», а сами граждане — вот основной вопрос, которому посвящена книга одного из крупнейших современных американских ученых, автора трудов в области политологии и государственного управления профессора Винсента Острома (1919-2012). Свой взгляд на эту...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 178 c. В монографии рассматривается политическая и социально-экономическая деятельность предпринимательских ассоциаций США: подробно анализируется структура, финансовое и юридическое положение этих организаций американского бизнеса, их роль в социальной политике правящего класса, а также влияние крупнейших предпринимательских ассоциаций на политику...
М.: Наука, 2008. — 273 с. В монографии дается характеристика партийных идеологий Республиканской и Демократической партий США. В работе рассмотрена подробная характеристика фундаментального сдвига, произошедшего на рубеже XX и XXI вв. в идеологических партийных стереотипах в отношении концепции дефицитного и профицитного бюджетов США, анализируется стратегия и тактика...
М.: Прогресс; Универс, 1995. — 512 с. Джеймс Уилсон (James Quinn Wilson, 1931-2012) — профессор политических наук Калифорнийского университета. В 1977 г. его работы были отмечены специальной премией Американской ассоциации политических наук. В книге, неоднократно переиздававшейся, раскрывается механизм функционирования федеральной системы власти США, рассматриваются вопросы...
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