Product Description: The period since 2001 has been one of anxiety and uncertainty as the United States has attempted to come to terms with the implications of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the war in Iraq. This entirely new text written by a team of leading authorities assesses how well the American system of government and constitution has coped...read more

Product Description: The long drawn out and heavily politicized presidential election process in 2000 with the winner - Republican George W. Bush - taking a smaller percentage of the popular vote that his Democratic rival, raised important issues of legitimacy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking assessment of government, politics, and policy in the United States. Written by an international team of leading scholars and focused on the trends of the 1990s, this book sets the scene for a thorough understanding of American politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The means, methods and efficiency of America's efforts to control air pollution have been the subject of considerable public debate in recent years. This book explains the timing and shape of these efforts and explores the possibility of change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a short political history of the United States since 1929, focusing on the national political agenda. The book deals with civil rights, the anti-communist crusade, social reform, foreign policy and includes a discussion of military strategy in World War II, concentrating on those arenas that were to effect the development of the Cold War...read more

Product Description: This study examines one of the most significant developments to have occurred in American politics in the last 20 years: the resurgence of the Republican Party in the Senate. Ineffective and divided in 1974, the Republicans made a dramatic recovery during the late 1970s to become the majority party of 1980...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to offer a coherent and systematic study of the U.S. Congress. It presents a detailed description of the organisation and procedures of the Senate and the House of Representatives and pays particular regard to the ways in which the structure of Congress has varied over time since the forming of the Constitution...read more