BP3 Classics of Political Science
Congressmen in Committees
Richard F. Fenno, Jr., 302pp, Book # 3621, $19.95
In this classic study, America's leading student of Congress shows how the different organizational environments of three congressional committees affect the behavior of members and shapes legislative outcomes.
The Governmental Process, Second Edition
David B. Truman, 561pp, Book # 3451, $24.95
Winner of the 1997 Leon Epstein Award for a distinguished contribution to the field. This study of political groups, their origins, and their maneuvers remains the leading source of ideas that explain outcomes in American political systems. Generations of political scientists have found this work essential to their understanding of contemporary politics. Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience
Kenneth N. Waltz, 561pp, Book # 3362, $24.95
Americans dissatisfied with the performance of their political institutions look abroad--especially to the United Kingdom--for a model. Waltz asks whether U.K. policymaking is any better than American. In hard-hitting prose, this rigorous analysis shows that, contrary to popular myth, British government is no better than American government at protecting national interests.
"A vivid argument that in matters of foreign policy (and of domestic policy as well) the American presidential system is superior to British parliamentary government....A worthy contribution to a great debate that now runs back at least a century to Walter Bagehot. In Waltz's hands the subject is fresh, provocative, stimulating."
-- H. Bradford Westerfield, The Journal of Politics
"An imaginative and durable contribution to the study of comparative politics and international relations.... [An] exhibition of intellectual boldness, critical verve, and incisive writing"
-- Leon D. Epstein, the American Political Science Review
"Thorough and profound."
-- Times Literary Supplement
"With books of this quality we may be about to turn an important corner in the comparative study of foreign policy."
--World Politics
The Press and Foreign Policy
Bernard C. Cohen, 288pp, Book # 346X, $17.95
Most of the important questions concerning the impact of the press on how the public views political issues were first raised in this classic of contemporary political science including what journalists consider news and how they establish and enforce professional norms. Cohen's theory explaining the pattern of news coverage is the most far-reaching and persuasive in the literature.
