The design and use of federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments have posed policy choices for every presidential administration since that of Lyndon B. Johnson. The papers in this volume describe the decisions these administrations have made, analyse why only some of these choices prevailed politically, and explain how large amounts of ......
Surveys press relations with the US federal government, examines the way official press offices prepare and conduct briefings, and considers criticisms concerning the government's control of information.
The sharp decline in US productivity growth in the 1970s has brought about a renewed interest in economic policies to expand aggregate supply. Particular importance has been given to the role played by government intervention in the form of taxes, transfer payments, and regulation. This volume asks just what is known about the effect of government ......
What information about the world are we given by the mainstream media? How much? How good? By whom? Through what means? And how much foreign news is really enough? Stephen Hess addresses these questions and offers a revealing look at how the print and broadcast media cover international affairs and how foreign correspondents do their work.
Examines a range of issues in government finance that confront developing countries: the formulation and execution of national budget; the objectives, size, and effects of expenditures; the purposes and results of various ways of taxing income, wealth, consumption, exports, or natural resources; the role of foreign and domestic borrowings; and the ......
Changes in international trade are not the major reason for the declining share of manufacturing in US employment: even though foreign productive capabilities are catching up with those of the United States, the US comparative advantage in high-technology products has increased. The author looks at these and other issues and seeks to clarify some ......
This study, jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examines the strategic, technological, and political issues raised by ballistic missile defense. The volume editors give a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of subjects and an assessment of future prospects.
The US federal courts have become increasingly aggressive in shaping regulatory policy. This new judicial activism has been particular evident in the regulation of air pollution. This book analyses the effects a variety of court decisions have had on federal air pollution control policy and assesses the courts' institutional capacity for ......
