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  • Undeserving

    SNAP Reform and Conceptions of the Deserving Poor

    by Matthew Gritter ...
    This book explores attempts to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. It argues that a growing focus on punitive policies attempts to characterize SNAP recipients as undeserving of governmental assistance. The book explores three areas of reform efforts: attempts to limit the types of food that can be purchased, attempts to implement drug ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Mexican Inclusion

    The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest

    by Matthew Gritter ...
    Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recurrent political battles surrounding the status and rights of Mexican immigrants. In Mexican Inclusion: The Origins of Anti ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Policy and Politics of Food Stamps and SNAP

    by Matthew Gritter ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in some cases enhanced as a result of its inclusion in the Farm Bill, being characterized as a safety net of last resort and as a program for the deserving poor. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Republican Presidents and the Safety Net

    From Moderation to Backlash

    by Matthew Gritter ...
    Republican presidents have navigated between popular programs and conservative supporters since the Eisenhower administration, and since the New Deal, Republican presidents have looked for ways to accommodate rather than abolish the federal social safety net. Yet moderation often led to a backlash from their conservative supporters, leading Republican presidents to move from accommodation to ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera’s influential body of work. This new volume collects the author’s plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot ("effortlessly melds otherworldly fantasy with gritty realism to make sparks fly onstage."—The Journal News), Sueño (a reworking for Pedro Calderón’s Life is a Dream) ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Hold Life Has

    Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

    by Catherine J. Allen ...
    This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the ... Read more

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  • Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change

    Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation

    by Johan P. Olsen ...
    Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are doing, is one such phenomenon. Mainstream approaches to democratic ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Lobbying in the European Parliament

    The Battle for Influence

    by Maja Kluger Dionigi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU. Yet we know little about the many ways in which interest groups and lobbyists influence parliamentary politics. The author offers insights on four key cases of lobbying, based on the analysis of EU documents, lobbying letters, and 150 ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Government Transparency

    Impacts and Unintended Consequences

    by T. Erkkilä ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy ideas that can lead to unintended consequences. It critically examines whether or not increased transparency really leads to increased democratic accountability. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Innovation in the Public Sector

    Linking Capacity and Leadership

    Edited by V. Bekkers, J. Edelenbos, B. Steijn ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation? ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • From South Texas to the Nation

    The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century

    by John Weber ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Financing the EU Budget

    Moving Forward or Backwards?

    by Gabriele Cipriani ...
    Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that EU revenue, drawn from the cashbox of national taxation, remains impalpable to the general public.The nature of the EU as a union of states and their nationals makes the visibility of EU revenue unavoidable. The political sustainability of a move that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD