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International Institutions and Power Politics
This book moves scholarly debates beyond the old question of whether or not international institutions matter in order to examine how they matter, even in a world of power …
City–County Consolidation
Although a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time. One …
Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons
More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. …
Catholics and Politics
Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization. The complexities of political realities and the human nature of such institutions as church and government often …
The State of Democracy in America
In this wide-ranging assessment of democracy in America today, fifteen respected scholars of American politics chart the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's democratic …
Seeking the Center
During the past decade, Democrats and Republicans each have received about fifty percent of the votes and controlled about half of the government, but this has not resulted in …
Climate Change and National Security
In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate …
The U.S. Supreme Court and the Electoral Process
The U.S. Supreme Court - at least until Bush v. Gore - had seemed to float along in an apolitical haze in the mind of the electorate. It was the executive branch and the …
The Catholic Church and the Nation-State
Presenting case studies from sixteen countries on five continents, "The Catholic Church and the Nation-State" paints a rich portrait of a complex and paradoxical institution whose …
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. This volume begins its …
Health, Disease, and Illness
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. …