Author: Wright PatmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Our American Government. What is It? How Does it Function? 283 Questions and Answers
Author: Wright PatmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Our American Government
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Resource Guide for Congressional Staffs
Author: United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Office of Congressional AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration law
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Department of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service Resource Guide for Congressional Staffs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admission of non-immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Congress and Health
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
U.S. Government Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Government's Greatest Achievements
Author: Paul C. LightPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815716370
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come through major legislation such as the 1965 Medicare Act, or large-scale efforts like the Apollo space program, most have been achieved through collections of smaller, often unheralded statutes. Drawing on survey responses from 230 historians and 220 political scientists at colleges and universities nationwide, Light ranks and summarizes the fifty greatest government achievements from 1944 to 1999. The achievements were ranked based on difficulty, importance, and degree of success. Through a series of twenty vignettes, he paints a vivid picture of the most intense government efforts to improve the quality of life both at home and abroad—from enhancing health care and workplace safety, to expanding home ownership, to improving education, to protecting endangered species, to strengthening the national defense. The book also examines how Americans perceive government's greatest achievements, and reveals what they consider to be its most significant failures. America is now calling on the government to resolve another complex, difficult problem: the defeat of terrorism. Light concludes by discussing this enormous task, as well as government's other greatest priorities for the next fifty years.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description