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Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 1976
ISBN 10: 0815748396ISBN 13: 9780815748397
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Highlighting. An examination of the major units of federal executive departments shows that government agencies tend to persist, once established, but that terminations and dismantling is not negligible. Bibliogs.
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Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 1981
ISBN 10: 0815751621ISBN 13: 9780815751625
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Author attempts to give regulators guidance as to how best to use acquire enough scientifically based data so that their regulations are grounded in something besides political accommodation.
Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 1988
ISBN 10: 0815728492ISBN 13: 9780815728498
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Softcover. Condition: used. Looks at the technological developments that led to the development of computers, discusses the influence of the military and IBM, and surveys current competition.
Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0815748442ISBN 13: 9780815748441
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Most of the people who keep tabs on the workings of the federal government, no matter what the reasons for their interest, seem to take for granted the power and autonomy of the chiefs of the bureaus that make up the executive branch. Because so much is taken for granted, there have not been many studies of what the chiefs actually do day by day. Of all the participants in the governmental process who wield--or are thought to wield--great influence, bureau chiefs are among the least examined.Believing that he could narrow this gap in the materials on the federal government somewhat, Herbert Kaufman set out to report his observations of six bureau chiefs at their jobs in the course of a year. The group consisted of the commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service, the Customs Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Social Security Administration; the chief of the Forest Service; and the administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service--a set diversified enough to include a wide variety of organizational situations and experiences, yet with enough in common to allow comparison and generalization.The objective of his research was to describe the chief's activities so as to explain how they exercise their power. And he hoped to find out whether they are as powerful as they are said to be.From his efforts emerges a detailed picture of the work of the bureau leaders and of their role in their agencies and in the government generally. The picture reveals that some of the common beliefs about these officials, and perhaps about the system as a whole, are not altogether accurate. Kaufman traces the implications of his findings for organizing the executive branch, for training administrators, and for organization theory.
Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0815751141ISBN 13: 9780815751144
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0815704976ISBN 13: 9780815704973
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Softcover. Condition: used. Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil,
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Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 1981
ISBN 10: 0815709315ISBN 13: 9780815709312
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Softcover. Condition: used. The cruise missile is the principal innovation in U.S. weaponry in the early 1980s. Because it is inexpensive and versatile, it is likely to be used for a wide range of military missions. At the same time, it has become a delicate issue in arms control and alliance politics. Although cruise missile programs are among the most dynamic elements in the U.S. defense buildup, their consequences have not been fully appreciated. This book assesses the complex set of technological, budgetary, strategic, diplomatic, and political implications of this new weapon as a contribution to public understanding of its pervasive influence on diplomacy and military affairs. Cruise missile technology and development programs are dealt with in chapters by John C. Toomay; Godron MacDonald, Jack Ruina, and Mark Balaschak; Ron Huisken; and John C. Baker. Military uses and arm control implications are discussed by Bruce Bennett and James Foster; Roger H. Palin; Richard Burt; Michael MccGwire; George H. Quester; and William H. Kinkade. Diplomatic and national political questions are analyzed by Raymond L. Garthoff; Robert J. Art and Stephen E. Ockenden; Gregory F. Treverton; Lawrence D. Freedman; and Catherine McArdle Kelleher.
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0815752970ISBN 13: 9780815752974
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The national parks of North America are great public treasures, visited by 300 million people each year. Set aside to be kept in relatively natural condition, these remarkable places of forests, rivers, mountains, and wildlife still inspire our "capacity for wonder." Today, however, the parks are threatened by increasingly difficult problems from both inside and outside their borders.This book, enriched with personal anecdotes of the author's trips throughout the parks of North America, examines changes in the park services of the United States and Canada over the past fifteen years. William Lowry describes the many challenges facing the parkssuch as rising crime, tourism, and overcrowding, pollution, eroding funding for environmental research, and the contentious debate over preservation versus useand the abilities of the agencies to deal with them.The Capacity for Wonder provides a revealing comparison of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) and the Canadian Parks Service (CPS). The author explains that, while the services are similar in many ways, the priorities of these two agencies have changed dramatically in recent years. Lowry shows how increasing conflicts over agency goals and decreasing institutional support have make the NPS vulnerable to interagency disputes, reluctant to take any risks in its operations, and extremely responsive to political pressures. As a result, U.S. national parks are now managed mainly to serve political purposes. Lowry illustrates how in the 1980s politicians pushed the NPS to expand private uses of national parks through development, timber harvesting, grazing, and mining, while environmental groups push the NPS in the other direction. Over the same period, the CPS enjoyed a clarification of goals and increased institutional supports. As a result, the CPS has been able to decentralize its structure, empower its employees, and renew its commitment to preservation.Lowry considers several proposals to change the institutions governing the parks. His own recommendations are more in line with proposals to revitalize public agencies than with those that suggest replacing them with private enterprise, state agencies, or endowment boards. Lowry concludes that preserving nature should be the primary, explicit goal of the park services, and he calls for a stronger commitment to that goal in the United States.
Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0815730608ISBN 13: 9780815730606
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Raymond L. Garthoff examines the fateful final decade of U.S.- Soviet relations, from the start of the Reagan administration in 1981 through the end of the Soviet era-- the collapse of the communist bloc, the end of Gorbachev's failed perestroika, and the demise of the Soviet Union itself at the end of 1991. While standing on its own, the book is a sequel to the author's earlier acclaimed, Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan, which covers the period 1969-1980.This volume features a detailed examination of the perspectives and actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union and their interaction, including the interrelationships of domestic factors with foreign and security policies in both countries and the involvement of both powers with other countries around the world, which infringed on their direct relationship. Besides analyzing the turn from confrontation to détente over the years of the Reagan and Bush administrations and Brezhnev through the Gorbachev administration, it reflects on the significance of the great transition from the cold war to a new era. It thus illuminates the very relevant recent history that underlines and informs American-Russian relations and the new situation of a post-Soviet, post-cold war world.Garthoff has obtained access to many formerly secret Soviet documents on this period in the Russian archives, as well as to a number of official American documents that have only recently been declassified. In addition, he has been able to interview and discuss the issues with many active or former Soviet and American officials.The author concludes that the key development was the advent of a Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who recognized the need to cast off a failed world view and to end the cold war-- and who successfully moved with the United States, under the Reagan and Bush administrations, and others, to achieve that goal; notwithstanding his failure in the parallel attempt to revitalize and transform the Soviet Union.Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Book of 1994.
Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0815700059ISBN 13: 9780815700050
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 2000
ISBN 10: 186203088XISBN 13: 9781862030886
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0815732678ISBN 13: 9780815732679
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0815723768ISBN 13: 9780815723769
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Vladimir Putin has his own idealized view of himself as CEO of Russia, Inc. But rather than leading a transparent public corporation, he runs a closed boardroom, not answerable to its stakeholders. Now that his corporation seems to be in crisis, with political protests marking Mr. Putins return to the presidency in 2012, will the CEO be held accountable for its failings? For more than a dozen yearsthe equivalent of three American presidential terms Vladimir Putin has presided over the largest nation on the planet, the second most powerful nuclear arsenal, and massive natural resources. Yet there is still debate about who he really is. Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy have gone a long way in answering that question, starting with the title, which makes a crucial point: even though Mr. Putin was, in his upbringing and early career, a prototype of the Soviet man, hes no longer Comrade Putin. His aim is not the restoration of communism. He has made a deal with the capitalists who have thrived in Russia over the past two decades: they support him in the exercise of his political power, and he supports them in amassing their fortunes.from the foreword by Strobe Talbott.
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0815747101ISBN 13: 9780815747109
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0815713088ISBN 13: 9780815713081
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0815782268ISBN 13: 9780815782261
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0815795149ISBN 13: 9780815795148
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0815730721ISBN 13: 9780815730729
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Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 0815747756ISBN 13: 9780815747758
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Published by Brand: Brookings Inst Pr, 1973
ISBN 10: 0815709137ISBN 13: 9780815709138
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0815761104ISBN 13: 9780815761105
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Published by Brand: Brookings Institution Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0815730411ISBN 13: 9780815730415
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