Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> American Government - Executive Branch

In the United States, the decision to use military force typically is made by the president, even though it is actually Congress that has the authority to commit the nation to war. It is also the president's job to inform the American people when that decision has been made--and to attempt to convince the citizens to support their government in the decision to go to war.

The book traces the development of the rhetoric used by presidents to convince Americans to go to war, from the earliest days of the nation to the latest conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. After an overview of...

The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in studies on comparative health studies, but mental health remains virtually ignored. Unlike the well researched topic of health policy, there is a gap in the marketplace covering mental health policy and health care policymaking. This book fills that gap; it is a comparative analysis of the implementation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), an evidence-based practice employed in two states that promises to empower the well-being of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Assertive Community Treatment specifically...

How well do we really understand Barack Obama's vision for our country?

In this controversial New York Times bestseller, veteran journalist and commentator Stanley Kurtz presents an exhaustively researched expose of President Obama's biggest secret--the socialist convictions and tactical ruthlessness he has long swept under the rug. Culling together two years of investigations from archives and never-before-tapped sources, Kurtz makes an in-depth...

The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted--his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of view, and his self-rooted "outpost" patriotism. "Barack Obama in Hawai i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President" is the first study to examine, in fascinating detail, how his early years impacted this unique leader.

Existing biographies of...

The White House

May 19, 2010

I was going to write about tonight's state dinner for Mexico and the amnesty plan, but we've got a national crisis here I think somebody's been snooping in this diary The pages are all wrinkled And the most personal entries are dog-eared WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON HERE?

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) On May 20, 2010, Laura Ingraham received a package from an anonymous source that will change the history of the United States and the legacy of President Barack Obama. While retrieving her automobile from...

In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, "Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability" shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is established in the Oval Office. To measure correlations between presidential campaigns and policy-making, Michele P. Claibourn closely examines detailed campaign advertising information, survey data about citizen's responses to campaigns, processes that create expectations among constituents, and media attention and response to...

In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, "Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability" shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is established in the Oval Office. To measure correlations between presidential campaigns and policy-making, Michele P. Claibourn closely examines detailed campaign advertising information, survey data about citizen's responses to campaigns, processes that create expectations among constituents, and media attention and response to...