Applying concepts derived from the study of international and comparative politics, this book offers an analysis of the impact of globalization on United States domestic politics. It is of interest to politicians, policymakers, and students looking for a discussion of globalization that is grounded in political history of the United States.
Suitable for those who consider a career in federal, state, or local government, this book conveys what life is really like in a public service job. It provides advice on the daily challenges that public servants can expect to face: working with politicians, bureaucracy, and the press; dealing with unpleasant and difficult people; and, more.
Assessing Local Performance and Establishing Community Standards
Municipal Benchmarks provides an external context in which to examine local government performance. David Ammons guides municipal executives, department heads, management analysts, mayors and city council members, and citizen groups through the benchmarking tools needed to assess and establish community standards for their operations and delivery ......
Hard Water: Politics And Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870-1995 by educator and urban studies specialist Kate Foss-Mollan is the documented and historical account of the water supply of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Foss-Mollan blends urban history, technology, biology, research, and political science into a remarkably intriguing and informative saga. From ......
The opening chapter introduces the book's approach as well as the institutional development of the presidency and its organizational structure. Chapters 2 through 6 provide an extended discussion of the institutional presidency, first examining the working relationships of the White House with Congress and with the media, and then looking at policy-making in differing policy areas. In each of these five chapters, Kessel introduces the actors on the White House staff or in cabinet departments or agencies. He then considers their activities, looking at those common throughout the institutional presidency and those specific to the task, such as negotiation in foreign policy, coping with business cycles in economics, and handling projects and patronage in dealing with Congress. In the final two chapters, Kessel asks what presidents have been able to accomplish. In Chapter 7, he evaluates, for each contemporary president, examples of policy success, failure, and mixed results. He broadens the analysis in his concluding chapter to examine larger patterns of presidential accomplishment. His conclusion: all presidents have mixed records, but in the aggregate, presidents succeed more often than they fail by a factor of 3 to 2.
A desk reference providing quick answers to the most frequently asked questions about all aspects of the US government, including elections, Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court. Questions include: what was the Teapot Dome scandal, and what was the largest presidential landslide?
This volume chronicles almost two decades of American elections marked by a politics of disappointment. Combining political science, history and literature, it addresses the varied electoral trends: distrust of government; yearning for a renewal of the American dream; decreasing voter turnout; desire for self-government; and debate over the future shape of political conflict. New chapters in this edition include the latest research on national elections with up-to-date analyses of the 1996 and 1998 elections and an evaluation of the impeachment.
How did a US Democratic president and a Republican Congress reach agreement on a five-year plan to balance the budget at a time of intense partisanship, mutual distrust, and suspicion? Daniel J. Palazzolo, a Congressional Fellow for Robert Ehrlich during the budget negotiations, tells the inside story from start to finish, describing the complex workings of policymaking, presidential-congressional relations, committee politics, and congressional leadership. Contrary to conventional assumptions that the American separation-of-powers system is destined to gridlock, Palazzolo argues that the system still works, even under divided government. The budget choices and deficit politics from 1980-1996 are analysed, the author aiming to set the 1997 Budget Agreement in realistic perspective.
Budgeting has long been considered a rational process using neutral tools of financial management, but this outlook fails to consider the outside influences on leaders' behavior. This title shows that political culture and ideological orientations are at least as important as financial tools in shaping budgets.
