Public Affairs & Administration
- America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century
- James T. Patterson
- This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition.
- Paperback 2000
- Armed Servants
- Peter D. Feaver
- How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- City Economics
- Brendan O'Flaherty
- This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
- Hardcover 2005
- 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
- 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 by Contract
- Edited by Jody Freeman
- Edited by Martha Minow
- Hardcover 2009
- Managing the Metropolis
- Edited by Eduardo Rojas
- Edited by Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura
- Edited by Jose Miguel Fernandez Guell
- Translated by Sarah Schineller
- Paperback 2008
- 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
- Nothing Stands Still
- Arthur M. Schlesinger
- Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger
- Arthur M. Schlesinger was one of America's most distinguished and influential historians. This volume brings together eleven of Professor Schlesinger's essays not previously collected in book form. Written between 1929 and 1965, they fall into two sections--"The Scholar," which includes essays dealing with historical questions, and "The Citizen," which includes those dealing with public affairs.
- Hardcover 1969
- 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 Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
- Richardson Dilworth
- Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities.
- Hardcover 2005