This Update includes discussions about September 11th, the war on terrorism, and the midterm elections, and includes access to the new LongmanParticipate.com Version 2.0. This Update is the Tenth Edition of Government in America with new discussions inserted into the text--without changing the page numbering. It gives students the most current and ...
From routine operations to the workings of a White House in crisis, this comprehensive text examines all facets of the presidency in rich detail, with a special emphasis on policy.
Americans currently choose their president through the electoral college, an extraordinarily complex mechanism that may elect a candidate who does not receive the most votes. In this provocative book, George Edwards III argues that, contrary to what supporters of the electoral college claim, there is no real justification for a system that might ...
How do presidents lead? If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion? George Edwards, one of the leading scholars of the American presidency, skillfully uses this contradiction as a springboard to examine - and ultimately challenge - the dominant paradigm of presidential leadership. ...
In this brief book, George Edwards, one of the foremost experts on the presidency and author of "Why the Electoral College is Bad for America," explores how the Bush administration has attempted sweeping changes in public policy -- without broad support for doing so -- by taking its case to the American public more than any other president in ...
The Brief Edition of this popular text with a public policy approach and "politics matters" theme has been revised to increase its coverage of the ways in which students can affect and are affected by politics in the United States. Framing its content within a "politics matters" theme, Government in America illustrates the impact that government ...
In this book George Edwards explores how and under what conditions presidents lead Congress, what we can reasonably expect of them, and how we should evaluate their performance. Integrating quantitative analysis with documentary and historical research, Edwards argues that the most effective chief executive is a facilitator, who works at the ...
American presidents often engage in intensive campaigns to obtain public support for their policy initiatives. This core strategy for governing is based on the premise that if presidents are skilled enough to exploit the "bully pulpit", they can successfully persuade or even mobilize public opinion on behalf of their legislative goals. In this ...
How should we govern? and What should government do? Professors Edwards, Wattenberg, and Lineberry evaluate how well the American system lives up to citizens' expectations of democratic government and discuss alternative views concerning the proper scope of American government. In doing so they help students answer the critical question, "What ...
This collection examines the foreign and domestic policies of President George W Bush's administration. The analysis begins with an account of how highly polarized - in terms of public opinion and electoral patterns - this presidency has proved to be (in a chapter by the editors). This is followed by chapters on the use of unilateral executive ...
This long-time bestseller - which continues to offer a public policy approach and a "politics matters" theme - has now been updated to include complete coverage of the 2006 midterm elections, the campaigns and results, and the most relevant and important issues and events that have dominated the headlines and national dialogue throughout 2005 and ...
Describes how to use computer-based information systems in order to gain competitive advantage. Non-technical in its approach, this book concentrates on management issues at unit and corporate levels, describing the integration of information systems and business strategy.
For use as a core text or as a supplement to principles of economics courses, this text develops an integrated theory of advanced capitalist economy based on an economic model of production and distribution. This theoretical analysis focuses on the profit rate, on how it is determined in goods markets, labour markets and by government policy, and ...
This collection of essays brings together scholars active in research on the literature concerning the recruitment of presidential candidates and other scholars who specialise in cognitive psychology and organisation theory, all of whom offer their views on the institution of the presidency.
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their ...
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