The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest? Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. Foreign policy conflict, he argues, is grounded in America's regional diversity. The uneven nature of America's integration into the world economy has made regionalism a potent force shaping fights over the national interest. As Trubowitz shows, politicians from...
The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so diffic...
This book refutes one of the cornerstone beliefs of economics and political science: that economic markets are more efficient than the processes and institutions of democratic government. Wittman first considers the characteristic of efficient markets informed, rational participants competing for well-defined and easily transferred property rights and explains how they operate in democratic politics. He then analyzes how specific political institutions are organized to operate efficiently. "Markets" such as the the Congress in the United States, bureaucracies, and pressure groups, he...
This book refutes one of the cornerstone beliefs of economics and political science: that economic markets are more efficient than the processes and i...
Direct democracy continues to grow in importance throughout the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the law into their own hands, overriding their elected officials to set tax, expenditure, and social policies. John G. Matsusaka s "For the Many or the Few" studies a century of budget data from states and cities to provide the first comprehensive, empirical picture of how direct democracy is changing government policies. Based on a century of evidence and the most recent theory, Matsusaka argues against the popular belief that initiatives...
Direct democracy continues to grow in importance throughout the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the...