Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies
by Joel D. Aberbach and etc.
In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant fi...
Esquisse d'Une Revolution Par l'Education (Sciences Sociales)
by Lorgueilleux-P-L
Episode d'Un Drapeau Francais Sauve En 1870 (Sciences Sociales)
by de Leusse-G
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
by V. Spike Peterson
Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it. V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and flexible work arrangements that shape income-gene...
Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Annexation of Texas
by Robert C Winthrop
Economic Sanctions Reconsidered
by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Schott, and Kimberly Ann Elliott
Now available directly from: IIE11 Dupont Circle, NWWashington, DC 20036Tel: (202) 328-9000Economic sanctions have become an increasingly central tool of United States foreign policy. Recently, doubts have been raised-both at home and abroad-as to whether sanctions are effective in meeting their avowed foreign policy objectives, or even their domestic policy goals. These concerns, influenced primarily by recent experience with the Soviet grain embargo and pipeline sanctions, have rekindled congr...
Water Resources Data, New Jersey, Water Year 2002, Volume 1, Surface-Water Data
This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service during the month of August, grouped according to topics. This book is focused on the following topics: *Government Operations *Health Policy *International Relations