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  | | Ending Welfare as We Know It by R. Kent Weaver Paperback, 500 Pages, Published 2000 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9247-5, ISBN: 0-8157-9247-6 "Bill Clinton's first presidential term was a period of extraordinary change in policy toward low-income families. In 1993 Congress enacted a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families. In 1996 Congress passed and the president signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This legislation abolished the sixty-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program ..." |
 | | The Government Taketh Away The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada (American Government and Public Policy) by Leslie A. Pal, R. Kent Weaver, Leslie Alexander Pal, Professor Leslie A. Pal, Robert Kent Weaver Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Georgetown University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87840-902-0, ISBN: 0-87840-902-5 "Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. At other times they involve the imposition of some type of loss -- a program cut, increased taxes, or new regulatory standards. Citizens will resist such impositions if they can, or will try to punish governments at election time. The dynamics of loss imposition are therefore a universal -- if unpleasant -- element of democratic ..." |
 | | Automatic Government(Illustrated) The Politics of Indexation by R. Kent Weaver Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 1988 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9257-4, ISBN: 0-8157-9257-3 "One of the most dramatic and least studied policy changes of the past twenty years is the increased use of indexing—automatic adjustments for inflation—in federal programs. Currently, programs comprising more than one-third of the federal budget have indexing provisions. The growth of indexing is all the more remarkable since it appears to conflict with the electoral interests of most politicians. Without indexing, legislators can vote ..." |
 | | Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad by R. Kent Weaver, Bert A. Rockman, Robert Kent Weaver Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 1993 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9255-0, ISBN: 0-8157-9255-7 "As a stunning tide of democratization sweeps across much of the world, countries must cope with increasing problems of economic development, political and social integration, and greater public demand of scarce resources. That ability to respond effectively to these issues depends largely on the institutional choices of each of these newly democratizing countries. With critics of national political institutions in the United States argu ..." |
 | | Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad by R. Kent Weaver, Bert A. Rockman Hardcover, 498 Pages, Published 1993 by Brookings Inst Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9256-7, ISBN: 0-8157-9256-5 "As a stunning tide of democratization sweeps across much of the world, countries must cope with increasing problems of economic development, political and social integration, and greater public demand of scarce resources. That ability to respond effectively to these issues depends largely on the institutional choices of each of these newly democratizing countries. With critics of national political institutions in the United States argu ..." |
 | | The Collapse of Canada? by R.Kent Weaver Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 1992 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9254-3, ISBN: 0-8157-9254-9 |
 | | Policy Feedback How Policies Shape Politics (Elements in Public Policy) [Soft Cover ] by Daniel Béland, R. Kent Weaver, Andrea Louise Campbell, Daniel Bã Land Paperback, Published 2022 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-94054-2, ISBN: 1-108-94054-4 |
 | | The Politics of Industrial Change(Illustrated) Railway Policy in North America by R. Kent Weaver Paperback, 265 Pages, Published 1985 by Brookings Inst Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9259-8, ISBN: 0-8157-9259-X "Book by Weaver, R. Kent" |
 | | Welfare Reform and Beyond The Future of the Safety Net by Ron Haskins, Andrea Kane, Isabel V. Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, Brookings Institution Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2002 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-0639-7, ISBN: 0-8157-0639-1 "The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation. The goal of the project has been to take the large volume of existing and forthcoming ..." |
 | | Ending Welfare As We Know It by R. Kent Weaver Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2000 by Brookings Institution,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9248-2, ISBN: 0-8157-9248-4 |
 | | Automatic Government The Politics of Indexation by R. Kent Weaver Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 1988 by Brookings Institution,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9258-1, ISBN: 0-8157-9258-1 |
 | | The Politics of Industrial Change(1st Edition) Railway Policy in North America by R. Kent Weaver Hardcover, 265 Pages, Published 1985 by Brookings Inst Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9260-4, ISBN: 0-8157-9260-3 "Discussion on governmental regulation on railways to and international competition. A very good hardcover copy. Former owner's signature to cover page. Tight binding. Solid boards. Clean, unmarked pages. Very good jacket in mylar, attached to boards. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 291pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Economics; ISBN: 0815792603. ISBN/EAN: 9780815792604. Inventory No: 016517." |
 | | The Collapse of Canada? by R. Kent Weaver, Keith G. Banting Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1992 by Brookings Inst Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9253-6, ISBN: 0-8157-9253-0 "America's northern neighbor faces a severe constitutional crisis. Unprecedented levels of public support for sovereignty in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec could lead to the breakup of Canada. This crisis was precipitated by two Canadian provinces' failure in 1990 to ratify the Meech Lake Accord, a package of revisions to Canada's constitution that addressed Quebec's grievances concerning its place within the Canadi ..." |
 | | Think Tanks and Civil Societies(Updated) Catalysts for Ideas and Action by R. Kent Weaver, James G. Mcgann, Robert Kent Weaver, Transaction Publishers Paperback, 634 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7658-0952-0, ISBN: 0-7658-0952-4 " Government and individual policymakers throughout the developed and developing world face the common problem of bringing expert knowledge to bear in government decision making. Policymakers need understandable, reliable, accessible, and useful information about the societies they govern. They also need to know how current policies are working, as well as possible alternatives and their likely costs and consequences. This expanding need ..." |
 | | Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad by R. Kent Weaver, Bert A. Rockman 512 Pages, Published 2010 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-1436-1, ISBN: 0-8157-1436-X "Party lines in the legislature are much more fluid in the United States, and the executive branch has limited leverage to ensure passage of its proposals. There are, moreover, many points in the legislative process where potential losers can exercise effective influence to block policy changes. And U.S. legislators are more likely than those in a parliamentary system to be held individually accountable for their actions. All of the ..." |
 | | Automatic Government The Politics of Indexation by R. Kent Weaver 290 Pages, Published 2010 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-0401-0, ISBN: 0-8157-0401-1 "Voters often err in attributing credit and blame. On the one hand, they may attribute a ... see Kelly G. Shaver, The Attribution of Blame: Causality, Responsibility and Blameworthiness (Springer-Verlag, 1985). 17. In addition, Richard Fenno has ..." |
 | | The Government Taketh Away The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada (American Governance and Public Policy series) by Leslie Alexander Pal, R. Kent Weaver, Beverly R. David, Barry Rabe Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Georgetown University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87840-901-3, ISBN: 0-87840-901-7 "Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. At other times they involve the imposition of some type of loss a program cut, increased taxes, or new regulatory standards. Citizens will resist such impositions if they can, or will try to punish governments at election time. The dynamics of loss imposition are therefore a universal if unpleasant element of democratic governanc ..." |
 | | Policy Feedback How Policies Shape Politics by Daniel Béland, Andrea Louise Campbell, R. Kent Weaver 164 Pages, Published 2022 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-94541-7, ISBN: 1-108-94541-4 "Although the idea that existing policies can have major effects on politics and policy development is hardly new, the last three decades witnessed a major expansion of policy feedback scholarship, which focuses on the mechanisms through ..." |
 | | American Governance and Public Policy The Government Taketh Away : The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada by R. Kent Weaver, Leslie Alexander Pal 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Georgetown University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58901-445-9, ISBN: 1-58901-445-6 "... legislative productivity is lower relative to agenda size during periods of divided government, and that intra- branch disagreement between chambers of Congress (see the discussion of bicameral- ism below) is an important contributor to gridlock. ... For general discussions, see George Tsebelis and Jeanette Money, Bicameralism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Samuel C. Patterson and Anthony Mughan, eds., Senat ..." |
 | | Ending Welfare As We Know It by R. Kent Weaver 500 Pages, Published 2000 by Brookings Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9835-4, ISBN: 0-8157-9835-0 "But developments outside and inside the Beltway appeared to make at least verbal support for reforming welfare more attractive and failure to do so seem risky. ... By a margin of 64 to 33 percent, respondents said that they were.56 By a very large margin, more respondents (74 percent) in a May 1992 poll thought that "people on welfare are so dependent on welfare that they will never get off it" rather than those (17 percent) who be ..." |
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