- China’s Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911
- Roger Thompson
- Hardcover
- Corruption by Design
- Melanie Manion
- This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated.
- Hardcover 2004
- Early Ming Government
- Edward L. Farmer
- Hardcover 1976
- Exeter, 1540-1640
- Wallace T. MacCaffrey
- During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities.
- Hardcover 1973
- Fruits of Propaganda in the Tyler Administration
- Frederick Merk
- Hardcover 1971
- The Glassworkers of Carmaux
- Joan W. Scott
- Hardcover 1974 / Paperback
- A Government Ill Executed
- Paul C. Light
- Foreword by Paul A. Volcker
- The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called “the true test” of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government.
- Hardcover 2008
- Government and Community
- J. R. Lander
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
- The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
- David Owen
- Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government.Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments.
- Hardcover 1982
- Holding Bishops Accountable
- Timothy D. Lytton
- The prevalence of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy and its shocking cover-up by church officials have obscured the largely untold story of the tort system’s remarkable success in bringing the scandal to light. The lessons of clergy sexual abuse litigation give us reason to reconsider the case for tort reform and to look more closely at how tort litigation can enhance the performance of public and private policymaking institutions.
- Hardcover 2008
- How Judges Think
- Richard A. Posner
- A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
- Hardcover 2008
- Inklings of Democracy in China
- Suzanne Ogden
- Since 1979 China's leaders have introduced reforms that have lessened the state's hold over the lives of ordinary citizens. By examining the growth in individual rights, the public sphere, democratic processes, and pluralization, Ogden seeks to answer questions concerning the relevance of liberal democratic ideas for China and the relationship between a democratic political culture and a democratic political system.
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864
- Robert A. McCaughey
- Hardcover 1974
- The Making of an Insurrection
- Morris Slavin
- Hardcover 1986
- Mongolian Rule in China
- Elizabeth Endicott-West
- The Mongolian Yuan dynasty is a short but interesting chapter in the long history of Sino-Mongolian relations. Endicott-West has put together a detailed picture of the Mongols' methods of selecting local officials, the ethnic backgrounds of officials, and policy formation and implementation at the local level.
- Hardcover 1989
- National Polity and Local Power
- Min Tu-ki
- Philip A. Kuhn, Editor
- Timothy Brook, Editor
- Hardcover 1990
- The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan
- J. Megan Greene
- The rapid growth of Taiwan’s postwar “miracle” economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan’s developmental state.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Parliament of 1624
- Robert E. Ruigh
- Hardcover 1971
- Policymaking in Latin America
- Edited by Ernesto Stein
- Edited by Mariano Tommasi
- Edited by Carlos Scartascini
- Edited by Pablo Spiller
- What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve, and implement effective public policies? To address this issue, this book builds on the results of a comparative study of political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in eight Latin American countries. The volume benefits from both micro detail on the intricacies of policymaking in individual countries and a broad cross-country interdisciplinary analysis of the process in the region.
- Paperback 2008
- Pont-de-Montvert
- Patrice Higonnet
- In the seventeenth century, both rich and poor of Pont-de-Montvert had their own politics; one century later, the political differences had vanished though the social ones remained. During the nineteenth century, its social structure was transformed, as were its connections with politics. In this book, Higonnet explains these changes and describes the conditions of life for different people at different times in a village that is both a part of France and a world unto itself.
- Hardcover 1971
- Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795
- Philip Dawson
- This monograph contributes research findings to the historical controversy over the political motives and conduct of the upper bourgeoisie during the French Revolution. Dawson makes use of a variety of manuscript materials pertinent to the magistrates as he treats their activities as members of corporate groups before 1790 and follows many of them as individuals through the revolutionary years to 1795.
- Hardcover 1972
- Pseudo-Malesko
- Bohdan A. Struminski
- Paperback
- Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution
- John E. Roemer
- Woojin Lee
- Karine Van der Straeten
- From the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" in the U.S. to the rise of Le Pen's National Front in France, conservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Combining historical analysis and empirical rigor with major theoretical advances, the authors of this book construct a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution.
- Hardcover 2007
- Representative Democracy
- Ballard C. Campbell
- The period Campbell examines was one of rapid change and great challenge; urbanization, industrialization, and increasing national integration forced innumerable difficult and important decisions on state legislators. Campbell is sensitive to these stresses on law-making, and skillfully analyzes the interplay between personal and constituent factors that affected lawmakers.
- Hardcover 1980
- The Republican Roosevelt, Second Edition
- John Morton Blum
- Paperback
- Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period
- Rebecca E. Karl, Editor
- Peter Zarrow, Editor
- The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began.
- Hardcover 2002
- The Road from Isolation
- Donald J. Friedman
- Hardcover 1968
- Sisters of Liberty
- Louis M. Greenberg
- First published in 1971, this book offers an exploration of the insurrection as part of the nationwide struggle for municipal and departmental liberties, bringing to the fore the Commune's relationship to the broader historical problem of the consolidation and future character of the Third Republic, especially in the provinces.
- Hardcover 1971
- A Small City in France
- Françoise Gaspard
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Foreword by Eugen Weber
- The picturesque town of Dreux, 60 miles west of Paris, made history in 1983 when Jean-François Le Pen's National Front candidates made a startling electoral gain in the region making it the forerunner of neofascist advances across the nation. A trained historian who also served as the city's socialist mayor from 1977 to 1983, Gaspard gives us an evocative picture of the town in all its particularity, at the same time fitting it into a broader context.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- The State of the Nation
- Derek Bok
- This book is an eloquent assessment of where America stands, how its society has changed in the past half-century, and who or what is responsible for our current frustrations. Derek Bok examines America's progress in five areas: economic prosperity, quality of life, opportunity, personal security, and societal values.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Stealing the State
- Steven L. Solnick
- Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system fell victim not to stalemate at the top nor to a revolution from below, but rather to opportunism from within. In three case studies--on the Communist Youth League, the system of job assignments for university graduates, and military conscription--Solnick makes use of rich archival sources and interviews to tell the story from a new perspective, and to employ and test Western theories of reform in the Soviet environment. He finds that even before Gorbachev, mechanisms for controlling bureaucrats in Soviet organizations were weak, allowing these individuals great latitude in their actions.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- The Warping of Government Work
- John D. Donahue
- The divergent paths of public and private employment have intensified a long-standing pattern: elite workers spurn public jobs, while less skilled workers cling to government work as a refuge from a harsh private economy. The Warping of Government Work documents government’s isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.
- Hardcover 2008