| Ambition and Division | Steven Schier | A comprehensive overview of the Bush presidency, including his final year in office,
measuring the trajectory of his aspirations, accomplishments, and failures. Reviews the historical position of the Bush administration, and defines and analyzes its long-term political goals. Places specific administration actions—from tax cuts to the Iraq War in strategic and historical context. |
| Critical Masses and Critical Choices | Kerry Herron | Examines American attitudes on issues of national and international security. Based on over 13,000 in-depth interviews conducted over a ten-year period. Provides surprising insights into public opinion on nuclear deterrence, terrorism, and other security issues. |
| Debt Wish | Alberta Sbragia | Albert Sbragia considers American urban government as an investor whether for building infrastructure or supporting economic development. Over time, such investment has become disconnected from the normal political and administrative processes of local policymaking through the use of special public spending authorities like water and sewer commissions and port, turnpike, and public power authorities. |
| Enduring Controversies in Presidential Nominating Politics | Emmett Jr. Buell | Retraces the more than 200-year history of presidential elections in the US—a spectacle that never fails to engage, excite, and enrage millions of Americans—showing the evolution from the days of the founders to today.
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| Framing American Politics | Karen Callaghan | Using current controversial issues, the contributors to this collection dicuss the importance of how a concept is framed. They explore the process of framing as well as the effects it can have on the public's political awareness. |
| Heir to Empire | Carl Parrini | Parrini examines the evolution of United States economic diplomacy during a critical period in world history—after Wordl War I. |
| High Risk and Big Ambition | Steven Schier | Assesses the trajectory and character of Bush’s time in office--a presidency best characterized by a series of bold risks in the service of two primary goals: the transformation of American foreign policy and the creation of a lasting Republican dominance of domestic politics. |
| Hitting First | William Keller | A critical analysis of the political dialogue leading up to the embrace of preventive war as national policy and rationale for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Offers a framework for avoiding future policy breakdowns through deliberative public and governmental debate.
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| How Does Social Science Work? | Paul Diesing | Paul Diesing takes an innovative, sometimes iconoclastic look at social scientists at work in many disciplines. |
| Managing National Security Policy | William Newmann | William Newmann examines the ways in which presidents make national security decisions, and explores how those processes evolve over time. He creates a complex portrait of policy making, which may help future presidents design national security decision structures that fit the realities of the office in today's world. |
| Political Failure of Employment Policy, 1945–1982 | Gary Mucciaroni | This book follows the impact of economic ideas and opinions on federal employment policy from the 1946 Employment Act to the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. Among many factors, Mucciaroni traces policy failures to the fact that labor and management were not centrally involved in making policy, and employment programs lacked a stable and organized constituency committed to their success. Additionally, employment programs were not integrated with economic policy, were hampered by conflicting objectives, and were difficult to carry out effectively. |
| Postmodern Presidency | Steven Schier | Including the conflict in Kosovo, the WTO meeting in Seattle, and new developments in the 2000 presidential campaign, The Postmodern Presidency is the most comprehensive and current assessment of Bill Clinton’s presidency available in print. |
| Regulation in the Reagan-Bush Era | Barry Friedman | New in Paper.
Explores the unprecedented influence of executive power over the federal regulatory process during the Ronald Regan and then George H. W. Bush presidencies.
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| Researching the Presidency | George Edwards III | This collection views the recruitment and selection of presidential candidates, presidential personality, advisory networks, policy making, evaluations of presidents, and comparative analysis of chief executives.
Additionally, specialists in cognitive psychology, formal theory, organization theory, leadership theory, institutionalism, and methodology, apply their expertise to the analysis of the presidentcy to generate innovative approaches to presidential research. |
| Strategic Disagreement | John Gilmour | Although compromise is an inherent part of politics, many politicians chose not to adjust their goals for fear of losing supporters or a strong debate position. It is the strategies of these office holders that John Gilmour describes in Strategic Disagreement, illuminating lost opportunities to pass important legislation resulting from such disagreements. |
| Struggle for Social Security, 1900–1935 | Roy Lubove | An examination of the early years of the social security movement, and the clash of traditional American ethics of individual responsiblity with Progressive Era social reforms. |
| Ties That Bind | Charles Jacobson | A historical guidebook for topics ranging from the networked city to the global internet that illuminates the political, economic, and technological forces shaping the infrastructure of modern life. |
| U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine | Alice Sardell | The first political history of the Community Health Center Program, the only federal experiment in social medicine. Sardell views the inherent political struggles, and the survival of the program on the condition that it only serve the poor. |
| United States Oil Policy, 1890-1964 | Gerald Nash | Focusing on the oil industry over a seventy-five year period, Nash provides a study of government–private industry relations, that sheds light on how America’s industries are regulated by the laws of supply, demand, and defense considerations. |
