Parties and Policies: How the American Government Works

by David R. Mayhew

In this wide-ranging new volume, one of our most important and perceptive scholars of the workings of the American government investigates political parties, politicians, elections, and policymaking to discover why public policy emerges in the shape that it does. David R. Mayhew looks at two centuries of policy making--from the Civil War and Reconstruction era through the Progressive era, the New Deal, the Great Society, the Reagan years, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300137621
• ISBN13: 9780300137620
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"