Politics and International Relations 2013 (US) - Routledge

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US POLITICS: BUDGETARY POLITICS
TEXTBOOK
A Citizen’s Guide to Federal Deficits and Debt
The Politics of Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing
William Hudson, Providence College, USA
Series: Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs
This citizen’s guide reveals how differing views of America inform the arguments over
deficits and debt. By the time readers finish the book, they will understand that the
conflict over deficits and debt is not simply about where to cut or add spending, but
instead is a struggle over national priorities and visions for the future.
Selected Contents: Introduction: US Fiscal Crisis Part 1: Federal Budget
Part 2: Federal Budget Politics
November 2013: 216x140: 128pp
Hb: 978-0-415-64460-0: $125.00/S
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TEXTBOOK • 5TH EDITION
Budgetary Politics in American Governments
James J. Gosling, University of Utah, USA
Gosling clearly explains the intergovernmental dynamics
of the actors, institutions, and processes of U.S. public
budgeting—both now and through changes of the last
several decades. Thoroughly updated, this edition examines
tax policy in the 2008 presidential campaigns, military
budgeting, budget shortfalls in state and local governments,
and a new chapter on budget organization and structure.
Selected Contents: 1. Public Budgeting in Perspective
2. Budgetary Decision Making 3. Budget Organization and
Structure 4. Economics and Politics 5. Taxing and Spending
6. National Budgeting 7. Budgeting in the States 8. Budgeting
in Local Units of Government 9. Budget Execution and Financial
Management 10. Patterns of Stability and Change in Public Budgeting
2009: 229x152: 312pp
Hb: 978-0-415-80015-0: $151.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-99511-5: $51.95/S
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TEXTBOOK
Understanding Government Budgets
A Practical Guide
R. Mark Musell, City College of New York, USA
Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and
use terms that make sense to few outside the world of
government finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among
the thousands of governments in the country, between federal,
state, and local levels. Understanding Government Budgets
offers detailed explanations of each of the different types of
information found in budgets, featuring annotated examples
from both state and local budgets, as well as the budget of the
federal government. It stresses that the choices made about
format and organization influence the story a budget tells about government.
The goal of the book is to make the format of budgets and the information they
contain accessible and understandable, helping users make better sense of
government and its performance. Perfect for undergraduate or graduate level
courses in budgeting and public administration, Understanding Government Budgets
also makes a useful guide to budgets for the average citizen with an interest in how
government operates.
2008: 120pp
Hb: 978-0-415-99011-0: $151.00/V
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eBook: 978-0-203-89272-5
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US POLITICS: RACE AND ETHNICITY
Barack Obama and the Myth of a
Post-Racial America
Edited by Mark Ledwidge, University of Manchester, UK, Kevern Verney,
Edge Hill University, UK and Inderjeet Parmar, University of Manchester, UK
Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics
By placing Obama in the historical context of U.S. race relations, this edited book
interrogates the idealized and progressive view of American society advanced by
much of the mainstream literature on Obama. Barack Obama and the Myth of a
Post-Racial America takes a careful look at the historical, cultural and political
dimensions of race in the United States, using an interdisciplinary analysis that
incorporates approaches from history, political science, and sociology.
August 2013: 229x152: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-81393-8: $135.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-81394-5: $39.95/S
eBook: 978-0-203-06779-6
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Black Politics after the Civil Rights Revolution
Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame, USA
Black Politics after the Civil Rights Revolution brings together three decades of
hard-to-find essays by influential scholar Dianne Pinderhughes. The essays provide a
window into the institutional, political, and policy developments in African American
politics in the post civil rights era. The chapters form a corpus for understanding a
number of dimensions of African American politics, as well as for addressing the
intellectual and theoretical issues explored in political science by scholars of racial and
ethnic politics.
December 2013: 229x152: 272pp
Hb: 978-0-415-88155-5: $135.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-88156-2: $33.95/V
eBook: 978-0-203-84786-2
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