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This study explores the evolution of Wilson's vision of a ""responsible government"", in which the separate executive and legislative powers would be integrated, his endeavours to establish it in the United States, and the legacy it has left behind.

Uses a new analytical mode - critical pluralism - to describe, explain, and evaluate variations in three key measures of democratic performance: responsible representation, complex equality, and principle-policy congruence. To test this framework and methodology, Paul Schumaker analyses 29 community issues that arose in Lawrence, Kansas.

A one-stop reference work that is a governors' hall of fame - a compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854.

In this first full-length study of Herbert Croly's political theory, Edward Stettner analyses Croly's writings and examines the events, experiences, and people who influenced Croly's thinking. In the process, he reveals Croly's significant influence on modern liberalism as classical liberal theory merged with progressive philosophy.

In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean.

Few American Presidents have been more respected than FDR. There has been a tendency to disregard those officials who disagreed with him. In relating the viewpoint of a distinguished American who opposed FDR's policies and tried to change them, this book provides a clearer understanding of politics and government in pre-World War II America.

Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. This first book by a political theorist devoted exclusively to James's theory argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work.

Offers a thorough treatment of every important aspect of minority affairs during the Truman administration. The authors trace the developments in the quest for minority rights from 1945 to 1953, show the interrelatedness to the struggle waged by America's racial minorities, and assess the role of the Truman administration in that struggle.

In provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a range of the intellectual, political, military, and social history of the eighteenth century to present a picture of the age in which the US Constitution was crafted and commentary on developments that have caused government to stray from the Founders' principles.

Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twenty-four major frontier towns.

Offers a collection of essays that insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. From a variety of perspectives contributors address both the technical problems and the politics of water management to provide a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.

Examines the intricacies of shifting factions within the state majority party over a two decade period, from the Boss-Busters and political machines of the early 1900s through the formation of a new party behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1913.

In this provocative new interpretation of Frederick Jackson Turner's life, work, and legacy, Wilbur Jacobs challenges the views of traditionalists and views of traditionalists and revisionists alike.

Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an exercise in the history of ideas and an explication of democratic theory.

With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. The author blends traditional history and folklore to trace the origins of the cattle guard and to describe how the device in its simplest form was reinvented and adapted throughout livestock country.

This retrospective study brings together twenty-two key associates of President Truman's to consider the administrative operation of the presidency from 1945 to 1953. The book presents an assortment of views on Truman's administrative philosophies and practices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and E.E. ('Swede') Hazlett grew up together in Abilene, Kansas, and remained close, corresponding regularly from 1941 until Hazlett's death in 1958. The letters collected in this volume, many of them surprisingly revealing, contain Eisenhower's views on a wide range of diplomatic, military, and political issues.

In 1879 Walt Whitman made a trip to the West to Kansas. From his own research, as well as from Whitman's published daybooks and notebooks and his collected correspondence, Walter Eitner is able to piece together a detailed itinerary, and to compare the record of the actual journey with Whitman's own account.

In this volume, the author discusses the widely-discussed, but poorly-understood phenomenon of presidential ""lightning rods"" - administration officials who, either through intent or circumstances, divert criticism and deflect blame away from their president.

By undertaking a comparison of institutional methods across a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.

The role of Blacks in town promotion and settlement has long been a neglected area. Crockett looks at patterns of settlement and leadership, government, politics, economics, and the problems of isolation versus interaction with the white communities. He also describes family life, social life, and class structure within the black towns.

Because Kansas has been called 'the leading Midwestern Populist state', and the Midwestern phrase was the principle one of this significant movement in American history, this first comprehensive history of the Kansas People's party, its leaders, and their thoughts and actions is an important addition to Populist historiography.

Shows the importance of Montequieu's teaching for modern legislation and for modern political prudence generally, with specific reference to his impact on The Federalist and Tocqueville. In so doing, she delineates Montequieu's contribution to political philosophy.

Focuses on rural development processes, problems, and solutions. Seven prominent specialists in the field, including agricultural and regional economists, demographers, and administrators, discuss the development of the open country, small towns, and smaller cities, and present an integrated approach to rural development problems.

Traces the evolution of political status in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1968, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952. No other work published in English has dealt with the Puerto Rican status question in such detail.

Presents the history of the American jet aircraft manufacturing industry from World War II to 1972, documenting the evolution of its technology and covering the intricacies of its management, economics, and relations with the government.

First published in 1984, this collection of essays by a distinguished group of economists, including Theodore W. Schultz, Julian L. Simon, and Pierre Crosson, takes issue with the belief that croplands need governmental protection.

Hailed as "one of the best soldiers this country has produced", Frank Ross McCoy was, throughout his distinguished career, much more than just a good soldier. Based on exhaustive research, this book shows that McCoy's career provides a unique perspective both on American foreign policy and on civil-military relations.