Governing - an introduction to political science
Inbunden bok. Prentice-Hall Inc. Seventh Edition uppl. 1996. 478 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag saknas.
This book is an introduction to political science, so well begin by saying what political science is about and why people study it. Political science is usually defined as the systematic study of political and governmental institutions and processes.
It is about why in 1992 America voters selected De0mocrate Bill Clinton over Republican dependent incumbent George Bush president, but gave nearly 20% of there votes independent Ross Perot. It is about the the Republicans in 1994 winning control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952.
It is about disintegration of e Soviet Union after Mikhail Gorbachev's massive effort to reform its economic and political systems to through perestroika (new thinking) and Glasnost (openness).It is about the a struggles of President Clinton and Congress to find some ways of balancing the budge5t and providing health care fore all Americans without raising taxes.
It is about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the "Dessert Storm" war in 1991 in which a US.-led coalition of nations drove Iraq out of Kuwait. It is about what, if anything, the USA is doing to prevent Word War III. Things like that.
They begin with politics.
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