American Politics and Government
On Parties: Essays Honoring Austin Ranney
Nelson W. Polsby and Raymond E. Wolfinger, editors | $21.95
Over the past 50 years, no one has contributed more to our understanding of political parties than Austin Ranney. Here, 12 leading experts, Ranney’s colleagues and students, adopt his agenda and examine contemporary political parties from a variety of perspectives. They highlight the recent movement to subject parties to legal regulation and control and examine topics ranging from party ideology, to the nomination process, and the perennial issue of party
decline.
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Explorations in the Evolution of Congress
H. Douglas Price | $21.95
For 30 years, Douglas Price expressed some of the most interesting ideas in the field of congressional behavior. Here, collected for the first time, are his most important essays on the history and structure of Congress, essays that have had enormous influence on students of Congress everywhere.
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Watching Politicians: Essays on Participant Observation
Richard F. Fenno, Jr. | $13.95
In this brilliant case study, Fenno, America's leading practitioner of participant observation, reflects on how the press and political scientists reacted when George Bush chose Dan Quayle to be his vice president–and on his personal dilemma as a scholar with a wealth of information about a little known, much criticized nominee. Fenno draws on his unique experience to explain the enduring ethical, tactical, and methodological problems involved in studying politicians.
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The New American Political (Dis)Order
An essay by Robert A. Dahl. Introduction by Austin Ranney and responses by Richard M. Abrams, David W. Brady, Patrick Chamorel, and Jack Citrin | $12.95
Robert A. Dahl, America's foremost political theorist analyses the current dysfunction in political decision making and the collapse of communications between citizens and their leaders. Five scholars from Berkeley and Stanford respond.
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The Governmental Process
Second Edition, David B. Truman | $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.
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Congressmen in Committees
Richard F. Fenno, Jr. | $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.
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A founding father of the discipline, Luther Halsey Gulick became a public administration legend in the course of a lifetime devoted to civic duty and public service. He drafted the resolution establishing the American Society for Public Administration, and every important work in the field in the latter half of the twentieth century reflects his influence. A first-rate biography.
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