New York State Library

Politics & Government - New Books
Posted: May 27, 2008

Title and Author: Act of justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war / Burrus M. Carnahan.
Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
Call Number: 973.714 C288 208-2143


Title and Author: After war : the political economy of exporting democracy / Christopher J. Coyne.
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, c2008.
Call Number: 338.91 C881 208-2730


Title and Author: All politics is global : explaining international regulatory regimes / Daniel W. Drezner.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 341.2 D778 208-2082


Title and Author: The almanac of state legislative elections : voting patterns and demographics 2000-2006 / William Lilley III ... [et al.].
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, 2008.
Call Number: R 912.73 qL729 94-74127 2008       Reference book - does not circulate


Title and Author: The American mid-term elections of 1922 : an unexpected shift in political power / Edward Ranson ; with a foreword by Oonagh Walsh.
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.
Call Number: 324.97309 R212 208-1951


Title and Author: The American presidency : origins and development, 1776-2007 / Sidney M. Milkis, Michael Nelson.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2008.
Call Number: 353.0313 M644 96-13829 2008


Title and Author: America's three regimes : a new political history / Morton Keller.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 973 K293 208-2708


Title and Author: The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization / Daniel Treisman.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 320.8 T787 208-2148


Title and Author: Before Brown : civil rights and white backlash in the modern South / edited by Glenn Feldman.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
Call Number: 323.0975 B415 208-2206


Title and Author: The best-kept secret : women, corporate lobbyists, policy, and power in the United States / Denise Benoit.
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73078 B473 208-1917


Title and Author: The best-laid plans : how government planning harms your quality of life, your pocketbook, and your future / Randal O'Toole.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.
Call Number: 338.973 O887 208-2745


Title and Author: Between freedom and bondage : race, party, and voting rights in the antebellum North / Christopher Malone.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, c2008.
Call Number: 324.62089 M257 208-2700


Title and Author: Beyond the White House : waging peace, fighting disease, building hope / Jimmy Carter.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Call Number: 973.92609 C323 208-2056


Title and Author: The case of Abraham Lincoln : a story of adultery, murder, and the making of a great president / Julie M. Fenster.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Call Number: 973.7092 F341 208-1983


Title and Author: Coining corruption : the making of the American campaign finance system / Kurt Hohenstein.
Publisher: DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 324.78097 H718 208-1928


Title and Author: The Cold War presidency : a documentary history / Thomas S. Langston.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007.
Call Number: 973.92 L285 208-2028


Title and Author: The confiscation of American prosperity : from right-wing extremism and economic ideology to the next great depression / Michael Perelman.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Call Number: 339.20973 P437 208-2213


Title and Author: Congress and the Cold War / Robert David Johnson.
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Call Number: 327.73009 J688 208-2752


Title and Author: Corporate, public and global governance : the G8 contribution / edited by Michele Fratianni, Paolo Savona, John J. Kirton.
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Call Number: 351 C822 208-1909


Title and Author: The cultural contradictions of democracy : political thought since September 11 / John Brenkman.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 320.01 B837 208-2078


Title and Author: The deadliest lies : the Israel lobby and the myth of Jewish control / Abraham H. Foxman.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Call Number: 973.04924 F795 208-1999


Title and Author: Democratic control of intelligence services : containing rogue elephants / edited by Hans Born and Marina Caparini.
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Call Number: 353.17288 D383 208-1944


Title and Author: Digital era governance : IT corporations, the state, and E-government / Patrick Dunleavy ... [et al.].
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Call Number: 352.38028 D574 208-2356


Title and Author: Divided America : the ferocious power struggle in American politics / Earl Black and Merle Black.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
Call Number: 324.273 B627 208-2715


Title and Author: The faith factor : how religion influences American elections / John C. Green.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Call Number: 322.10973 G796 208-2016


Title and Author: The FBI : a history / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 363.25097 J46 208-2151


Title and Author: Federal dataveillance : implications for constitutional privacy protections / Martin Kuhn.
Publisher: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2007.
Call Number: 342.73085 K961 208-2645


Title and Author: The first modern campaign : Kennedy, Nixon, and the election of 1960 / Gary A. Donaldson.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2007.
Call Number: 324.97309 D676 208-1906


Title and Author: Fooled again : the real case for electoral reform / Mark Crispin Miller.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2007.
Call Number: 324.973 M649 208-2369 2007


Title and Author: For liberty and glory : Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions / James R. Gaines.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Call Number: 973.41092 G142 208-2017


Title and Author: Freedom from oil : how the next president can end the United States' oil addiction / David Sandalow.
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
Call Number: 338.27282 S213 208-2547


Title and Author: From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice / Thomas F. Jackson.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
Call Number: 323.092 J144 208-2561


Title and Author: Gambling, freedom and democracy / Peter J. Adams.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Call Number: 338.4795 A216 208-2717


Title and Author: God and Hillary Clinton : a spiritual life / Paul Kengor.
Publisher: New York : Harper, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73092 C641 208-2668


Title and Author: Governance and the democratic deficit : assessing the democratic legitimacy of governance practices / edited by Victor Bekkers ... [et al.].
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2007.
Call Number: 351.73 G721 208-2183


Title and Author: Great expectations : the troubled lives of political families / Noemie Emery.
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2007.
Call Number: 973.099 E538 208-1947


Title and Author: Guide to the presidency / Michael Nelson, editor.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2008.
Call Number: R 353.0313 qC749 90-39079 2008       Reference book - does not circulate


Title and Author: Her way : the hopes and ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton / Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
Call Number: 973.92909 G384 208-2364


Title and Author: How to build M&E systems to support better government / Keith Mackay.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2007.
Call Number: 352.35 qM153 208-2623


Title and Author: In defense of our America : the fight for civil liberties in the age of terror / Anthony D. Romero and Dina Temple-Raston.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, c2007.
Call Number: 323.49097 R763 208-2502


Title and Author: In search of the Black Panther Party : new perspectives on a revolutionary movement / Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, editors.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Call Number: 322.42097 I355 208-2648


Title and Author: Initiative-centered politics : the new politics of direct democracy / [edited by] David McCuan and Stephen Stambough.
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.
Call Number: 328.273 I565 208-2092


Title and Author: Institutional change in American politics : the case of term limits / edited by Karl T. Kurtz, Bruce Cain, & Richard G. Niemi.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73073 I597 208-1920


Title and Author: Justice and public administration / Charles F. Abel and Arthur J. Sementelli.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
Call Number: 035.01 A139 208-2203


Title and Author: Keeping the lights on : towards sustainable electricity / Walt Patterson.
Publisher: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.
Call Number: 333.7932 P318 208-1921


Title and Author: A leadership guide for combination fire departments / Fred C. Windisch, Fred C. Crosby.
Publisher: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2008.
Call Number: 363.37068 W765 208-1963


Title and Author: Lectures on the history of political philosophy / John Rawls ; edited by Samuel Freeman.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 320.01 R261 208-2655


Title and Author: The liberals' moment : the McGovern insurgency and the identity crisis of the Democratic Party / Bruce Miroff.
Publisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
Call Number: 324.97309 M676 208-1929


Title and Author: Lincoln and freedom : slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 973.714 L736 208-2217


Title and Author: Lion in the White House : a life of Theodore Roosevelt / Aida D. Donald.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2007.
Call Number: 973.91109 R781 208-1985


Title and Author: Madame chair : the political autobiography of an unintentional pioneer / Jean Miles Westwood ; edited by Linda Sillitoe ; with a foreword by Floyd A. O'Neil.
Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 324.70973 W538 208-1915


Title and Author: Making accountability work : dilemmas for evaluation and for audit / edited by Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Jeremy Lonsdale and Burt Perrin ; with a foreword by Amitai Etzioni.
Publisher: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2007.
Call Number: 352.35 M235 208-2010


Title and Author: Managing the president's message : the White House communications operation / Martha Joynt Kumar.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 352.38409 K963 208-2629


Title and Author: Mapping for Congress : supporting public policy with GIS : Library of Congress, Congressional Cartography Program / edited by Nancy Sappington ... [et al.] ; designed by Amaree Israngkura.
Publisher: Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, c2006.
Call Number: 320.60285 M297 208-2625


Title and Author: Metropolitan governing : Canadian cases, comparative lessons / edited by Eran Razin and Patrick J. Smith.
Publisher: Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press ; [Edmonton, Alta.] : Distributed in North America by the University of Alberta Press, , c2006.
Call Number: 351.71 M594 208-2375


Title and Author: The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" / Eric H. Mielants.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 330.9401 M631 208-2626


Title and Author: Oxford handbook of political behavior / edited by Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 306.2 O984 208-1511


Title and Author: Party affiliations in the state legislatures : a year by year summary, 1796-2006 / Michael J. Dubin.
Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73076 D814 208-2595


Title and Author: Party influence in Congress / Steven S. Smith.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 328.73 S661 208-2135


Title and Author: Performance accountability and combating corruption / edited by Anwar Shah.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2007.
Call Number: 352.34 P438 208-2594


Title and Author: Personal roots of representation / Barry C. Burden.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73 B949 208-2233


Title and Author: Perspectives in black politics and black leadership / edited by John Davis.
Publisher: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c2007.
Call Number: 303.34089 P467 208-2391


Title and Author: The Presidency and economic policy / Chris J. Dolan, John Frendreis, and Raymond Tatalovich.
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
Call Number: 339.50973 D659 208-2184


Title and Author: Promises to keep : on life and politics / Joe Biden.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73092 B585 208-2770


Title and Author: Prophet from Plains : Jimmy Carter and his legacy / Frye Gaillard ; foreword by David C. Carter.
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007.
Call Number: 973.92609 G139 208-2643


Title and Author: Public procurement : international cases and commentary / edited by Louise Knight ... [et al.].
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Call Number: 352.53 P976 208-2777


Title and Author: Regulating the private security industry / Sarah Percy.
Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, c2006.
Call Number: 353.36 P432 208-2808


Title and Author: Regulation and public interests : the possibility of good regulatory government / Steven P. Croley.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Call Number: 352.801 C944 208-2663


Title and Author: A republic divided / the Annenberg Democracy Project.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; [Radnor, PA] : Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, c2007.
Call Number: 320.973 R426 208-2662


Title and Author: Research methods for public administrators / Elizabethann O'Sullivan, Gary R. Rassel, Maureen Berner.
Publisher: New York : Pearson Longman, c2008.
Call Number: 350.00072 O85 89-279 2008


Title and Author: Rx for health care reform / Ken Terry ; foreword by Paul B. Ginsburg.
Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 362.10425 T329 208-2221


Title and Author: Scripted for change : the institutionalization of the American presidency / Victoria A. Farrar-Myers.
Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 352.23509 F243 208-2666


Title and Author: See government grow : education politics from Johnson to Reagan / Gareth Davies.
Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
Call Number: 379.7309 D255 208-2212


Title and Author: Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers / Karl E. Campbell.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73092 E736 208-2207


Title and Author: Service contracting : a local government guide / edited by Kelly LeRoux.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : ICMA Press, c2007.
Call Number: 352.53821 qS491 208-2580


Title and Author: The silence of the rational center : why American foreign policy is failing / Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2007.
Call Number: 327.73 H195 208-2740


Title and Author: State and local government statistics at a crossroads : panel on research and development priorities for the U.S. Census Bureau's state and local government statistics program / Committee on National Statistics.
Publisher: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2007.
Call Number: 352.75213 S797 208-2096


Title and Author: State of the union : presidential rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush / edited by Deborah Kalb, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007.
Call Number: R 352.23809 S797 208-1495       Reference book - does not circulate


Title and Author: The strategy of campaigning : lessons from Ronald Reagan & Boris Yeltsin / by Kiron K. Skinner ... [et al.] ; foreword by George P. Shultz.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
Call Number: 324.72 S898 208-2201


Title and Author: The terror presidency : law and judgment inside the Bush administration / Jack Goldsmith.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
Call Number: 342.73062 G624 208-2125


Title and Author: Thomas Jefferson and executive power / Jeremy D. Bailey.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 352.23509 B154 208-2149


Title and Author: To enlarge the machinery of government : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 320.97309 H698 208-2058


Title and Author: Transforming public leadership for the 21st century / edited by Ricardo S. Morse, Terry F. Buss, and C. Morgan Kinghorn.
Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2007.
Call Number: 352.236 T772 208-2195


Title and Author: Unorthodox lawmaking : new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress / Barbara Sinclair.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73077 S616 97-1107 2007


Title and Author: Water policy for sustainable development / David Lewis Feldman.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Call Number: 363.61097 F312 208-2528


Title and Author: We are all Americans, pure and simple : Theodore Roosevelt and the myth of Americanism / Leroy G. Dorsey.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
Call Number: 973.91109 D718 208-2041


Title and Author: We want freedom : a life in the Black Panther Party / by Mumia Abu-Jamal ; introduction by Kathleen Cleaver.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : South End Press, c2004.
Call Number: 322.42092 A165 208-2799


Title and Author: When freedom would triumph : the civil rights struggle in Congress, 1954-1968 / Robert Mann.
Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 323.0973 M282 208-2677


Title and Author: While dangers gather : congressional checks on presidential war powers / William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Call Number: 328.73074 H859 208-2196


Title and Author: The working landscape : founding, preservation, and the politics of place / Peter F. Cannaváo.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2007.
Call Number: 333.73097 C224 208-2661


Title and Author: Wrong on race : the Democratic Party's buried past / Bruce Bartlett.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Call Number: 323.1196 B289 208-2738