Analyzes educational reform in the second half of the twentieth century through the political career of Jimmy Carter and his influence on educational policy.

Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.

Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.

Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.

Uses Brazil as a case study of how governments implement environmental policies despite urgent needs for economic development.

The first in-depth examination of self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs.

Case studies that assess the value of new approaches to environmental policymaking in the United States and abroad.

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.

Examines the politics behind the funding of NASA.

Explains why public institutions for people with developmental disabilities have persevered despite plans to eliminate them.

Explores the contradictions between the American ideal of equality and the realities of public policy.

Offers a broad, multidisciplinary, and progressive look at school choice.

Examines how public opinion has influenced health care policy.

Explores political and educational aspects of Charlotte's nationally praised school desegregation efforts.

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

A biography of the influential journalist and historian Allan Nevins.

Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.

Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.

Seeks to redraw the boundaries between the fields of geology and environmental philosophy.

A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individual police departments.

Examines the extent to which race affected public policy formation in Buffalo, New York between 1934 and 1997.

Examines restrictions and potentialities for public access to science and technology decision making.

Discusses welfare reform in Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

This study of presidential administrations from Nixon through Clinton discusses how and why the White House has become the dominant player in the domestic policy process, relegating the departments to implementation, rather than design, of key initiatives.