Political Science / Public Administration

Curating America's Painful Past is an in-depth investigation of how America's past is currently remembered at the national museums in Washington, DC. Tim Gruenewald reveals how the tragic past is either minimized or framed in a way that does not threaten dominant national ideologies.

The Fourth Branch is a detailed analysis of the serious decline of the American commercial republic and an argument for a constitutional redesign to accommodate a fourth, administrative branch.

This book explores the powerful push and pull of the concepts of government accountability. On one hand is the public’s desire for full accountability from its government. On the other is the fear on the part of those who will be monitored, and their allies, of what full accountability might mean.

The Accountability State provides an overview of US Federal Inspectors General and analyzes their development and capacity to contribute to new forms of democratic legitimacy.

Coordination has been the most poorly understood and least examined problem for governments since their inception, and this book discusses the causes, consequences, and possible remedies of coordination problems.

A thoroughly updated third edition of an urban politics classic. Analyzes the problematic trends facing America’s cities and older suburbs and assesses what’s needed to put America’s urban crisis back on the national agenda.

This first historical study of U.S. budget policy covering the last three decades places the budget at the center of modern American politics and adds an important dimension to the understanding of recent events.