The December revolution : Tom DeLay and the rise of the K Street conservatives -- The gang : how the College Republicans launched the career of a con artist -- The K Street Project : The Republican takeover of the lobbying industry -- The petri dish : how a tiny commonwealth corrupted the conservative movement -- Rogues' gallery : even bad guys need a lobbyist -- The hit : Jack Abramoff's corrupt casino deal -- The tribes : the triumph of K Street conservatism -- The shakedown : greed gone wild -- The sorcerer's apprentice : how one lobbyist became entangled in Jack Abramoff's web -- The unraveling : how to catch a crooked lobbyist -- The cure : spectators to an orgy of "reform
Based on research in over 100 archival collections, this book offers the history of the demise of the committee era Congress and the rise of the legislative branch. It shows that reform is messy, slow, multidimensional, and involves many institutions.
Am 13. November 1976 gibt Wolf Biermann in Köln sein erstes öffentliches Konzert nach elf Jahren Auftrittsverbot. Drei Tage später wird ihm von der DDR-Regierung die Staatsbürgerschaft entzogen. Gegen seine Ausbürgerung protestieren prominente Schriftsteller der DDR, in der Bevölkerung entsteht eine Welle der Solidarität mit dem Künstler – ein Menetekel für die einsetzende Agonie der DDR ... Jahre später erinnern sich prominente Zeitzeugen aus Ost und West und Biermann selbst an dieses deutsch-deutsche Schlüsselereignis.
Focusing upon the 1957 Whitehall policy initiative encouraging greater use of history in the policymaking process, this book studies the Treasury and the Foreign Office. The findings illuminate debates about the nature and use of history in the contemporary world
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This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches--which assume that states want to maximize security--by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance. States, in other words, try both to change aspects of the international status quo that they don't like and maintain those aspects they do like. A state's ability to do so is largely a function of its relative capability, and since national capability is finite, a state must make trade-offs between policies designed to achieve change or maintenance. Glenn Palmer and Clifton Morgan apply their theory to cases ranging from American foreign policy since World War II to Chinese foreign policy since 1949 to the Suez Canal Crisis. The many implications bear upon specific policies such as conflict initiation, foreign aid allocation, military spending, and alliance formation. Particularly useful are the implications for foreign policy substitutability. The authors also undertake statistical analyses of a wide range of behaviors, and these generally support the theory. A Theory of Foreign Policyrepresents a major advance over traditional analyses of international relations. Not only do its empirical implications speak to a broader range of policies but, more importantly, the book illuminates the trade-offs decision makers face in selecting among policies to maximize utility, given a state's goals.
How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves beyond current research on Congress that focuses primarily on rules, internal structure, and the microbehavior of individual lawmakers, to look at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. It i.
