Cq Press imprint: 255 books
Environmental Policy
New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional...
Cases in Intelligence Analysis
Structured Analytic Techniques in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In their Second Edition of Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action*,*accomplished instructors and intelligence practitioners Sarah Miller Beebe and Randolph H. Pherson offer robust, class-tested cases studies of events in foreign intelligence, counterintelligence,...
Women, Politics, and Power
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective, Third Edition provides a clear, detailed introduction to women’s political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and regions. Through broad statistical overviews and detailed case-study accounts, authors Pamela Paxton...
by Rebekah L. Herrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Minorities and Representation in American Politics is the first book of its kind to examine underrepresented minorities with a framework based on four types of representation—descriptive, formalistic, symbolic, and substantive. Through this lens, author Rebekah Herrick looks at race, ethnic, gender,...
by Harold W. Stanley, Professor Richard G. Niemi
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
There is no other print source, online source, or Web search engine that provides the wide range and depth of insight found in***Vital Statistics on American Politics***. This new 2015-2016 edition is updated with the most recent information available. The editors consult hundreds of sources to...
The Art of Policymaking
Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr....
Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy
From Terrorism to Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Many actors—from the president and members of Congress to interest groups, NGOs, and the media—compete to shape U.S. foreign policy. Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, Fifth Edition, edited by Ralph G. Carter, captures this strategic interplay using 15 real-world...
Perspectives on International Relations
Power, Institutions, and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas shows students new to the field how theories (perspectives) of international affairs—realism, liberalism, constructivism (identity), and critical theory—play a decisive role in explaining every-day debates about world affairs....
America Votes 32
2015-2016, Election Returns by State
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Authoritative, extensive in scope and meticulously researched, America Votes is a valuable resource that includes official, state-certified election returns for the presidential, House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections of 2015 and 2016. Including both primary and general election data, this volume...
Mission Mystique
Belief Systems in Public Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
In an era filled with mistrust for big government and big business, Charles Goodsell goes against this grain to draw attention to public agencies admired for what they do and how well they do it. In his groundbreaking new book, Goodsell places renewed focus on organizational mission and its potential...
American Democracy in Peril
Eight Challenges to America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In this Eighth Edition of American Democracy in Peril, author William E. Hudson provides a perceptive analysis of the challenges our democracy faces in the current era: economic crisis, partisan gridlock, rising economic inequality, and continued military conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere....
by Richard W. (Wallace) Mansbach, Kirsten L. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Challenges for America in the Middle East offers a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the foreign policy challenges the United States faces in the Middle East. It takes a close look at the critical policy dilemmas posed by radical Islam, the Arab Spring, the Shia Crescent, and Israel–Palestine...
by James E. Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Homeland Security Intelligence is the first single-authored, comprehensive treatment of intelligence. It is geared toward the full range of homeland security practitioners, which includes hundreds of thousands of state and local government and private sector practitioners who are still exploring how...
by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation—all...