00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861757350 Buklod 20100118083610.0 a r |||| u| ta 160714s1989 nyu rb |||| u|eng d 0070529833 (iLib)UPBAG-00007116664 BC-28724 Php20.00 DLC BAG rda eng JK 21 R38 Readings in American government and politics [edited by] Randall B. Ripley, Elliot E. Slotnick. New York McGraw-Hill Book Company ©1989. xiv, 571 pages illustrations 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-571) The American political tradition -- From confederation to constitution: the revolutionary context of the great convention/ Lance Banning -- Eighteenth-cewntury American constitutionalism/ Gordon Wood -- Selections from the federalist papers/ Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison -- A self-correcting system: the constitution of the United States/ Martin Landau -- The recurring question of the limited constitutional convention / Walter E. Dellinger -- Constitutional creation -- Constitutional interpretation -- Contemporary American federalism and the American political tradition -- Tocqueville's mistake: a defense of strong central government/ Henry Steele Commager -- The withering away of the states/ Michael Kinsley -- After new federalism, what?/ David R. Beam -- The untold story of Reagan's new federalism/ Richard P. Nathan and Fred C. Doolittle -- Prosepects for pluralism/ Nelson W. Polsby -- A new language for the left: translating the conversvative discourse/ Benjamin Barber -- The environment for government activity -- Public opinion -- The media -- Parties and elections -- Interest groups -- National institutions and policy -- Congress -- Congressional committees as moving targets/ Roger H. Davidson -- The hill leaders: their places on the ladder/ Jacquiline calmes -- U.S. Congressman as enterprise/ Robert H. Salisbury and Kenneth A. Shepsle -- Informal congressional caucuses and agenda setting/ Susan webb, Hammond -- Daniel P. Mulhollan and Arethur G. Stevens Jr. -- Congress and the dilemma of economic poliocy/ Lance T./ Leloup -- Congress and the defense budget: enhancing policy oversight -- The presidency -- The power to persuade/ Richard Neustadt -- The limitations of the presidents power/ William howard taft and The presidency: making an old party progressive/ Theodore Roosevelt -- The paradoxes of the presidency/ Thomas E. Cronin -- White house staff versus the cabinet: centripetal and centrifugal rules/ James P. Pfiffner -- Excerpts from the tower commission report/ The presidents special review board ( John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft -- The presidency and congress/ Roger H. Davidson -- The bureaucracy -- The life cycle of bureaus/ Anthony Downs -- The rise of the bureaucratic state/ James Q. Wilson -- Executive politics in Washington/ Hugh Heclo -- In search of a role: America's higher civil service/ Hugh Heclo -- The tenessee valley authority at age fifty/ Steven M. Neuse -- The Judiciary -- Social policy and judicial capacity/ Donald Horowitz -- Explaining the burger court's support for civil liberties/ Lawrence Baum -- A candid talk with justice blackmun/ John A. Jenkins -- Appointing a supreme court justice: the battle over judge ginsburg/ Stuart Taylor Jr -- Reagans second term judicial appointments: the battle at midway/ Sheldon Goldman -- Responses to judicial policies/ Charles Johnson and Bradley Canon . United States Politics and government. Ripley, Randall B. editor. Slotnick, Elliot E. editor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN JK 21 R38 Book