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“gary moncrief”

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  • State Legislatures Today

    Politics under the Domes

    by Gary Moncrief, Peverill Squire ...
    A concise and provocative introduction to state legislative politics, State Legislatures Today is designed as a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics. The book examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context, showing how they have evolved over the years, and differentiating them from Congress. It covers ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Why States Matter

    An Introduction to State Politics

    by Gary F. Moncrief, Peverill Squire ...
    When it comes to voting, taxes, environmental regulations, social services, education, criminal justice, political parties, property rights, gun control, marriage and a whole host of other modern American issues, the state in which a citizen resides makes a difference. That idea—that the political decisions made by those in state-level offices are of tremendous importance to the lives of people ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Reapportionment and Redistricting in the West

    Edited by Gary F. Moncrief ...
    In Reapportionment and Redistricting in the West, Gary F. Moncrief brings together some of the best-known scholars in American state and electoral politics to explore the unique processes and problems of redistricting in the western United States. These political scientists examine the specific challenges facing western states in ensuring fair and balanced political representation. Western states ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

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  • Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within

    American Politics in the Time of Trump

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  • Torture and Democracy

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    This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish ... Read more

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  • Thrown Under the Omnibus

    A Reader

    by P. J. O'Rourke ...
    An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores.From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone's International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P. J. O'Rourke has been entertaining and ... Read more

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  • The Art of Cheating

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    by Jessica Dorfman Jones ...
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    $18.99 CAD

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  • Bureaucratic Ambition

    Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator

    by Manuel P. Teodoro ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management
    Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration Book Award of the American Society for Public AdministrationPolitical scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial ... Read more

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    Putin's Reforms and Management of the Regions

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  • What American Government Does

    by Stan Luger, Brian Waddell ...
    "Takes a sophisticated approach to big questions . . . assess[es] the huge role of government in American life in an illuminating way." —Frances Fox PivenDespite widespread anti-government sentiment in recent decades—including complaints that it does too much and that it doesn't do enough—the fact remains that government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, ... Read more

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  • An Education in Politics

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