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1. How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior

   By Robert J. Hume

   Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

   What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti

   By Jean-Germain Gros

   Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

   Failed states are a huge problem in international relations, threatening world order in a number of ways. Conflicts in failed states often spill unto neighbouring states, failed states make for unreliable partners in the resolution of global social problems such as poverty and AIDS, and failed...

   Published September 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

   By Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

   Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

   Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial...

   Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge
4. Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

   By Miriam Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

   Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge