While our fellow union members were protesting at the Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach, solidarity events took place throughout the system. Our campus protest focused on the unwillingness of the CSU to accept a provision ensuring academic freedom for CSU faculty.
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Politics to the Extreme brings together leading scholars and experts to examine how ideological warfare infects and affects American political institutions, hindering the ability on our institutions to respond to pressing policy challenges. This incisive and approachable analysis also identifies solutions for bridging the partisan divide and restoring courtesy to Congress. Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
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"This excellent, timely, and cogently written book boldly challenges political scientists to expand their research methods to include extensive use of the rich, largely untapped, political archives of this nation. There are rich veins of untapped gold awaiting political scientists in the vast political archives of the United States." Raymond Smock, Director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies
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Cheese Factories on the Moon is a much-needed challenge to a widespread but deeply flawed “consensus” about what is wrong with congressional appropriations earmarks. "I'm a fan and am delighted to see such a book at just the right moment in the debate about earmarks." --Mickey Edwards, Aspen Institute and former U.S. Representative (R-Oklahoma)
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Campaigns and Political Marketing is packed with information and insights every political activist will find useful. It coherently explains the real world of campaign politics and elections, presenting the everyday issues that political consultants face in the field, all made easily understandable even to the novice
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In this groundbreaking work, Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly draw on significant new data from congressional archives—gleaned from the papers of both Democratic and Republican leaders from the 85th to the 103rd Congress—to reveal the complex process through which congressional members get assigned to the powerful committees of the House.
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Awarded the prestigious CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, this book is also highly praised by noted political science professors as well as leading practitioners. "Do you want to know how Washington really works? Read Frisch and Kelly's Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars. They bring to life the events surrounding a critical turning point in the Carter Presidency. This is required reading for anyone interested in presidential leadership in Congress." -Representative Butler Derrick (D-South Carolina)