Subject: Political Science / General

Subject: Political Science / General

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Strategic Disagreement

|9780822955757|Stalemate in American Politics| Politics may be the art of compromise, but accepting a compromise can be hazardous to a politician’s health. Politicians worry about betraying faithful supporters, about losing the upper hand on an issue before the next election, that accepting half a loaf today can make it harder to get the whole loaf tomorrow. In his original interpretation of competition between parties and between Congress and the president, Gilmour explains the strategies available to politicians who prefer to disagree and uncovers the lost opportunities to pass important legislation that result from this disagreement. Strategic Disagreement, theoretically solid and…

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Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One

|9780822955511|Government, Business, and Environmental Change|Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as “hell with the lid off.” The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers.| Roy Lubove| Regional| History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Political Science / General Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

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Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two

|9780822955665|The Post-Steel Era|This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.| Roy Lubove| Regional| History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Political Science / General Political Science / Public…

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Debt Wish

|9780822955993|Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development| Albert Sbragia considers American urban government as an investor whether for building infrastructure or supporting economic development. Over time, such investment has become disconnected from the normal political and administrative processes of local policymaking through the use of special public spending authorities like water and sewer commissions and port, turnpike, and public power authorities.Sbragia explores how this entrepreneurial activity developed and how federal and state policies facilitated or limited it. She also analyzes the implications of cities creating innovative, special-purpose quasi-governments to circumvent and dilute state control over city finances, diluting their own…

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Negotiating Democracy

|9780822955887|Transitions from Authoritarian Rule|This book explains why some countries succeed in installing democracy after authoritarian rule, and why some of these new democracies make progress toward consolidation. Casper and Taylor show that a democratic government can be installed when elite bargaining during the transition process is relatively smooth. They view elite bargaining in twenty-four transitions cases, some where continued authoritarianism was the result, others where a democratic government was the result, and a third outcome where progress towards consolidation was the end product.| Gretchen Casper Michelle M. Taylor|| Political Science / Comparative Politics Political Science / General

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