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Political Change in Eastern Europe Since 1989: Prospects for Liberal Democracy and a Market Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Zuzowski (Author)What makes some Eastern European countries politically victorious and economically prosperous while others have failed in both regards? Zuzowski deals with fundamental changes in the area after the demise of communism. He argues that the past is important because it is usually a reliable indicator of things to come in the near future. He also states that if systemic transformation is to succeed, a new totalism or comprehensive change int...

Evolution of United States Budgeting: Revised and Expanded Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Annette E. Meyer (Author)As a fiscal document recording the spending, taxing, and borrowing policies for the coming year, the U.S. budget continues to be a model for other nations. This book focuses on the various phases of budget making, its historical background in fiscal and monetary terms, and special budgetary issues, including the budget balance, credit activities of Government-Sponsored Enterprises, the future health of Social Security, and the budget's ...

Effective Environmental Regulation: Learning from Poland's Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Halina Szejnwald Brown (Author), David Angel (Author), Patrick G. Derr (Author)Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the toxic legacy of the Communist era. It offers rich insights into the questions of how one can achieve both economic growth and improved enviro...

The Political Economy of Rural Development in China, 1978-1999

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Report copyright infringementby Weixing Chen (Author)Chen provides an analysis of the political economy of rural development in China during the reform era. Revolving around the central theme of statecraft, Chen's study gives a concise and comprehensive treatment of the interaction of ideology and politics with central policy and economic growth. He examines China's economic reform in historical perspective, characterizes China's economic and political transformation since the reform, and pro...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Jankowski (Author)The 1980s and 1990s were a watershed in terms of both tax and monetary policy. The 1981 Reagan tax cut ushered in supply-side economics, while the 1986 Tax Reform Act produced a substantial cut in the marginal individual income tax rate. In terms of monetary policy, the Volcker-Greenspan chairmanships of the Federal Reserve initiated fundamental changes in monetary policies that lowered inflation. Jankowski examines both tax and moneta...

American Capitalism and the Changing Role of Government

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Shaffer (Author)The conventional wisdom has it that a balanced budget is the height of economic rationality, that social security should be privatized, and that most adult welfare recipients could and should get jobs. All our social and economic problems, we are told, are due to too much government; if we only left the American free enterprise system alone, the free market would heal all that ails our society and lead to lasting prosperity. Challenging th...

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Weiner (Author)The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past 50 years illustrates the changing relationship between federal, state, and local governments. This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to the concern for sustainable development and pollution emissions. Focusing on major national events, the book discusses the influence of legisla...

Smart Contracting for Local Government Services: Processes and Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Lavery (Author)Privatization of local government is making headlines throughout the world. Scottsdale, Arizona, contracts for fire protection; Baltimore, to run nine city schools; and Chicago and Philadelphia for a range of services from janitors to recreational facilities. The United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia have arguably gone further than the United States. But much of the debate on contracting has been high on politics, philosophy, and emoti...

Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System

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Report copyright infringementby Georgi M. Derluguian (Editor), Scott L. Greer (Editor)This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization. The authors reject the notion that globalization is an analytically useful term. Rather, this volume shows globalization as merely the framework of the current political debate on the future of world power. Some of the many other novel ideas advanced by the authors include: the explicit prediction that East Asia is not g...

Multilateral Development Banks: Improving U.S. Leadership

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Upton (Author), Sidney Weintraub (Foreword by)Upton examines the U.S. policy process toward the five multilateral development banks-the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development-as a case study in how the United States manages its participation in multilateral institutions. The management of the U.S. role in these institutions ...

The Dixification of America: The American Odyssey Into the Conservative Economic Trap

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen D. Cummings (Author)In mid-July 1997, just as the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 8,000, the federal government announced that personal bankruptcies were at an all-time high, and Second Harvest, the largest food bank network in America, reported increased demand at half of its distribution centers. But this paradox is not new. Throughout the last decade, economists have extolled the virtues and successes of the U.S. economy, while plants have closed,...

Transitions to Capitalism and Democracy in Russia and Central Europe: Achievements, Problems, Prospects

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Report copyright infringementby M. Donald Hancock (Editor), John Logue (Editor)Hancock and Logue, along with their contributors, seek to explicate the achievements, problems, and prospects of simultaneous processes of economic and political transitions from communism to contrasting forms of market economies and democracy in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and eastern Germany. Contributors include 14 American and European scholars with intimate professional and personal ...

Popular Politics: Renewing Democracy for a Sustainable World

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Report copyright infringementby George W. Shepherd (Author), George W. Shepard (Author)George Shepherd provides a popular democratic theory and strategy for democratic transition in the world. He demonstrates how popular democratic ideas have created universal human rights uprisings and popular movements, and he shows how real opposition is building to elite rule. Building on the old liberal and new associative rights of the democratic tradition of the Western world from Harold Laski and Jacq...

To Have and To Hold: The Meaning of Ownership in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Neala Schleuning (Author)Dr. Neala Schleuning provides a wide-ranging interdisciplinary exploration of the idea of ownership. She focuses primarily on the transition in modes and meaning of ownership since the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. Her primary argument is that the experience of ownership has been one of enclosure, which in turn conflicts with the goals of democratic society. Topics include land ownership, private property in a capitalist socie...

Human Rights and Choice in Poverty: Food Insecurity, Dependency, and Human Rights-Based Development Aid for the Third World Rural Poor

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Report copyright infringementby Alan G. Smith (Author)This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World. Considering the interdependence of minimal food and health security with minimal assurance of basic freedoms, political scientist Alan G. Smith traces the linkage to the need of the food-insecure to seek clientelistic dependencies on better-off neighbors--relationships that often operate to restrict freedom of choice. In contrast t...

In Search of Security: A Socio-Psychological Portrait of Today's Germany

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Report copyright infringementby Gerd Langguth (Author), Dirk Johnson (Translator)Germany is the only country in the world where two major transformations are taking place at the same time: a process of modernization in the west and a transition from command economy to free market economy in the east. In this work, Langguth highlights the dramatic social and political changes occurring in east and west Germany. He concludes that the increasingly complex European political and social landscape ...

Levels of Socio-economic Development Theory

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Report copyright infringementby David Jaffee (Author)Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and social scientists interested in a wide-ranging but concise review of contemporary theories of social and economic development will find this second edition invaluable. The coverage spans the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics, political science, political economy, geography, and management. The theories are organized by level of analysis--individual, organizational, societal, and ...

Subsaharan Africa in the 1990s: Challenges to Democracy and Development

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), Rukhsana A. Siddiqui (Editor)The economic performance of African countries south of the Sahara generally has been poor during the past two decades. External factors such as high oil prices, deteriorating terms of trade, and wars, and formidable internal factors such as corruption, chauvinism, authoritarianism, and violence have continued to plague the region. Whereas in the 1980s the Subsahara was overwhelmed by drought, devaluation, and debt,...

Regional Integration Among the ASEAN Nations: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Study

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Report copyright infringementby Innwon Park (Author)AFTA is ASEAN's response to the world-wide movement toward regional economic integration. Recent economic debate centers on measuring the impact of regional economic integration as a means of achieving persistent growth and facilitating structural adjustment. Park evaluates the long term effects that AFTA should have among ASEAN members, especially among the developing countries, by applying static, dynamic, and trade-linked CGE models. This...

Reducing Unemployment: A Case for Government Deregulation

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Report copyright infringementby Garry K. Ottosen (Author), Douglas N. Thompson (Author)Unemployment costs the United States at least $400 billion per year in lost output. This number does not begin to add up the total costs of unemployment that include many serious social problems like increased divorce and crime rates. If unemployment costs so much, why don't we simply pump up demand and push the unemployment rate down? The answer lies in the relationship between inflation and unemployment: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerd Langguth (Author)Germany is the only country in the world where two major transformations are taking place at the same time: a process of modernization in the west and a transition from command economy to free market economy in the east. In this work, Langguth highlights the dramatic social and political changes occurring in east and west Germany. He concludes that the increasingly complex European political and social landscape and the new diversity of li...

Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values

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Report copyright infringementby Brent Steel (Editor)The use of public lands in the western United States has become the focus of international, national, and regional debate. Public concern for wildlife, fish, wilderness, recreation, and other values associated with these lands has increased substantially since the 1960s. And that concern has clashed with the more user/extraction orientation of traditional interests. The priorities for management of these lands have become the subject of incr...

Commercial Competition and National Security: Comparing U.S. and German Export Control Policies

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Report copyright infringementby Claus Hofhansel (Author)U.S. and German export control policies are compared, showing how these policies have responded to the changes in the international environment, including the end of the Cold War. The policy differences are explained through an analysis of differences in state interests and external constraints, state strategies, domestic support for export controls, and institutional constraints on policy change. The conclusion put forward is that despi...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Knapp (Author), Jane C. Kronick (Author), R. William Marks (Author)IThe Assault on Equality R critiques the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right. It focuses on the attempt by Herrnstein and Murray in IThe Bell Curve R to provide theoretical justification for social program cutbacks and coercive social policies. IThe Assault on Equality R reanalyzes Herrnstein and Murray's own data and demonstrates that their conclusi...

Restructuring State and Local Services: Ideas, Proposals, and Experiments

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold H. Raphaelson (Editor)Under pressure from both the Federal government and private citizens, local and state governments are restructuring their services, including the areas of education, highway, and transportation. While the federal government wants to reassign responsibilities to local governments, voters want greater efficiency and lower taxes via privatization. This edited collection considers these pressures, the responses from state and local gove...

Segregation in Federally Subsidized Low-Income Housing in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Modibo Coulibaly (Author), Rodney D. Green (Author), David M. James (Author)Earlier studies of subsidized housing assume that segregation is a manifestation of white prejudice, and that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 would significantly remedy inequalities in housing and, in the process, narrow the socioeconomic gap between racial groups. This book argues, on the contrary, that segregation by race and income has been an integral part of federal housing policy fro...

Foreign Investment and Political Conflict in Developing Countries

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Rothgeb (Author)This study systematically investigates the degree to which international economic linkages are related to domestic political conflict in developing countries. In the years since World War II, the interconnections among the members of the international system have multiplied rapidly, and the resulting dependence and interdependence has reached the point where many scholars and political leaders believe that these ties have profound implic...

Workers at Risk: The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas McGarity (Author), Sidney Shapiro (Author)The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is not close to meeting its mandate to protect American workers, according to administrative law specialists McGarity and Shapiro. Thousands of men and women are still victims of workplace accidents and occupational disease. The goal of this book is to analyze why OSHA has failed and to suggest what can be done to set it back on track. The book, divided int...

Competition in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry: An Economic Policy Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Edward C. Gallick (Author), Edward C. Gallock (Author)This work considers the potential effects of competition in the natural gas pipeline industry. Contrary to published studies and government reports, this study concludes that federal regulation in the industry is no longer necessary to limit the market power of current pipeline suppliers. Rather, potential entry by nearby suppliers--a competitive factor largely ignored in most economic analyses--will promote...

States and the Economy: Policymaking and Decentralization

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Hines Wilson (Author), Robert H. Wilson (Author)Wilson examines how economic and political decentralization is affecting the development policymaking environment at the state level. The book first empirically examines the changing economic geography of the country and the specific effects on the economic structure of states. Following this, three case studies are presented. These constitute an investigation of the intergovernmental context of public poli...

Norway and the European Community: The Political Economy of Integration

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Report copyright infringementby Brent Nelson (Author), Brent F. Nelsen (Editor)This study explores the relationship between the European Community and one of the most important EFTA countries, Norway. The book recounts the steps leading to the signing of the European Economic Area agreement that will extend the EC's single internal market to the EFTA countries, explores the political dimension of Norway's relations with the EC, examines the economic dimension of the relationship, and consider...

The National Debt Conclusion: Establishing the Debt Repayment Plan

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Report copyright infringementby Charles W. Steadman (Author)The Washington financier who first proposed creation of a trust fund to retire the national debt has written a book outlining a new plan that would prevent Congress from raiding the fund to supplement the cost of regular government programs. In 1982 he suggested a temporary 5% tax on manufacturers sales. The income would go into a debt trust fund similar to the highway trust fund. The $1 trillion federal debt would have been retired ...