Globalizing de Gaulle: International Perspectives on French by Christian Nuenlist,Anna Locher,Garret Martin,Jeffrey James

Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

Even though their leaders and employees are usually not elected, bureaucratic enterprises have the ability to make coverage judgements that hold the entire strength of the legislations. during this groundbreaking ebook, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty discover a topic vital to political technological know-how and public management: How do Congress and the president make sure that bureaucratic companies enforce their most popular guidelines?

Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of Italy (Europe and the Nation State)

This e-book examines the impression of Europeanization at the family politics of ecu member states, focussing on agricultural coverage, unity coverage and employment coverage with an in depth comparative case examine on Italy. although a founding member, Italy has frequently had an uneasy courting with the european and located it tough to be influential in european politics and to conform successfully with ecu regulations and institutional pressures.

Comparing and Classifying Legislatures (Library of Legislative Studies)

Contemporary years have witnessed huge paintings within the legislative reports box. yet what can we learn about legislatures today and are there transparent standards for evaluating and classifying them? this can be a new evaluate of the country of our wisdom of parliament and tackles key questions: Do legislatures topic in legislative phrases, and, if this is the case, how a lot?

The Eisenhower Presidency: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century

St century that we have to query how a lot of his variety may paintings in our personal period. The chapters during this quantity handle the teachings we would draw from the Eisenhower event for presidential management at the present time. even supposing lots of the authors locate a lot to recognize within the Eisenhower checklist, they exhibit various critiques on how acceptable his strategy will be for our personal time.