Despite abundant conjecture in the scholarly community and heated rhetoric in state capitals throughout the land, there is little evidence that state governments can have any effect at all on the economic performance of their state. Working from a broadened historical perspective, and employing political and economic analysis, Paul Brace places ...
This text brings together a team of scholars from state and local government and politics to provide an array of viewpoints on the impact in the US of major institutional changes in the states and localities since the 1970s. The contributors discuss the status of state and local government practices and point out the challenges facing officials as ...
With elections drawing fewer and fewer voters, US presidents govern increasingly on the strength of support from public opinion polls. This is a systematic account of how modern presidents from Truman to Bush have interpreted and responded to changes in their popularity as reflected in the polls.
An account of how presidents, from Truman to Bush, have been shaped by changes in the polls. The book shows that presidents often do make Faustian bargains on behalf of their popularity, but they get surprisingly little in return.
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