America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick, a leading scholar of American government.

Now, with a brand new 3rd edition, the book returns to "ordinary politics" and the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act which gave the FDA broad authority to regulate both the manufacture and marketing of tobacco ...

Monograph tracing the development of the social security system in the USA, with particular reference to the role of social policy - outlines the historical role of programme executives, congress, politicians, trade union federations and ...

Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guidance and the feasibility of their policies.

The results are familiar to airline passengers, users of telephone service, and trucking freight shippers, among others. Martha Derthick and Paul J. Quirk ask why this deregulation happened.

Monograph on public expenditure in the USA for subsidyzing state-level (local level) social services and social assistance programmes - examines the legal aspects and financial aspects of the social service grants-in-aid programme, etc., ...