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U.S. Politics

What Liberalism Is Missing - Cooper, Laurence D. - Policy Review, April/May 2010, pp15-26

The Vanishing Liberal
- Baker, Kevin - Harper's Magazine, April 2010, v320, #1919, pp29-37

A House Divided: Polarization and its Effects on Rand
- Thomson, James A. - Rand Corporation, April 4, 2010, online edition, 36p

Republican Party: Is the GOP Ready to Lead? - Cohen, Richard E.; Simendinger, Alexis; Friel, Brian - National Journal, March 20, 2010, v42, #12, pp18-22/24-25

Tea Party Movement: Will Angry Conservatives Reshape the Republican Party? - Katel, Peter - CQ Researcher, March 19, 2010, v20, #11, pp241-262

White House chief of staff: What Happened? - Baker, Peter - New York Times Magazine, March 14, 2010, pp36-42

Broken Politics
- West, Darrell M. - Issues in Governance Studies, Brookings Institute, March 2010, online edition, 8p

From Deliberation to Dysfunction: Time for Procedural Reform in the U.S. Senate - Scott, Lilly - Center for American Progress, March 2010, online edition, 16p

Will 2010 Be Another 1994? - Norquist, Grover G. - American Spectator, March 2010, v43, #2, pp20-25

Senators: Where Scott Brown is Coming from - Bruni, Frank - New York Times Magazine, February 28, 2010, pp24-32

Messages from Massachusetts
- Simendinger, Alexis - National Journal, January 23, 2010, online edition

Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns - Corrado, Anthony; Mann, Thomas E.; Ornstein, Norman J.; Malbin, Michael J. - The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, January 14, 2010, online edition, 66p (PDF)

The Tea-Party Primary - Leibovich, Mark - The New York Times Magazine, January 10, 2010, pp28-38

Something New on the Mall - Tomasky, Michael - New York Review of Books, October 22, 2009, v56, #16, online edition

The Politics of Memory - Welch, Matt - Reason, October 2009, v41,#5, pp2-5

The Tories and the GOP: Lessons in Losing - Darwall, Rupert - Policy Review, September/October 2009, #156, pp3-15

Getting to NO: The Republican Dilemma in the Obama Age - Boyer, Peter J. - The New Yorker, September 28, 2009, v85, #30, pp32-36

Republicans and Democrats: A Tale of Two Bases - Barone, Michael
The American, September 15, 2009, online edition

If Sarah Palin is the Answer... - Wheatcroft, Geoffrey - The NationalInterest, September/October 2009, pp68-78

A Thousand Envoys Bloom - Rothkopf, David - National Interest, May/June 2009, #101, pp15-26

Future of the GOP: Can Republicans Stage a Comeback? Greenblatt, Alan - CQ Researcher, March 20, 2009, v 19, #11, pp249-272


Federal Goverment

Senate 2010: More Shocks on the Way? - Sabato, Larry J. - The Center for Politics, Crystal Ball, January 21, 2010, online edition

What the Senate Change Means For Reform - Mann, Thomas E.; Ryssdal, Kai - Market Place, January 2010, online edition

After Cheney - Traub, James - The New York Times Magazine, November 29, 2009, pp34-45

Three Trends over Eight Presidential Elections, 1980-2008: Toward the Emergence of a Democratic Majority Realignment?
Caraley, James Demetrios - Political Science Quarterly, Fall 2009, v124, #3, pp423-443

Statehouse Rock: 36 Governorships on the Chopping Block in 2010 - Sabato, Larry J. - The University of Virginia's Center for Politics, Crystal Ball, March 2009, online edition

Intelligent Design: How to Change America - ,
American Interest, January/February 2009, v4, #3, online edition

Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue - Congressional Management Foundation (CMF), December 15, 2008, 84p (pdf)

What Will the Obama Administration Administer? - Heller, Peter - American Interest, December 5, 2008, online edition

Achieving Real Improvement in Federal Policy and Program Outcomes: The Next Frontier - Newcomer, Kathryn; Redburn, F. Stevens
National Academy of Public Administration and the George Washington University, October 2008, 11p

Constitutional Discourse and American Government - Busch, Andrew E. - American Heritage Foundation, August 22, 2008, online edition, 15p

Barack’s Chops - Ehrenhalt, Alan - Governing, July 2008, online edition

MetroPolicy: Shaping a New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation - Muro, Mark; Katz, Bruce; Rahman, Sarah; Warren, David - The Hamilton Project, Brookings Institute, June 18, 2008

Is It Possible to Fix Government? A New Talk Discussion
Brookings Institution, New Talk, June 17, 2008, online edition

Federal Pollution Control Laws: How Are they Enforced? - Esworthy, Robert - Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report, February 20, 2008, 48p

Earmarks Executive Order: Legal Issues - Nicola, Thomas J.; Halstead, T.J. - Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report, February 13, 2008, 14p

What Separation of Powers Means for Constitutional Government - Kessler, Charles R. - Heritage Foundation, First Principles Series, #17, December 17, 2007, online edition

Still Waiting After All These Years: An In-Depth Analysis at FOIA Performance from 1998-2006 - The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, August 8, 2007, online edition

The Threatening Storm - Grunwald, Michael - Time, August 13, 2007, v170, #7, pp28-39

The New Orleans Index: A Review of Key Indicators of Recovery Two Years after Katrina - Tracking Recovery in the Region in collaboration with the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
Brookings Institution, The New Orleans Index, Second Anniversary Special Edition, August 2007, online edition

My Neighbor’s Keeper? Rethinking Responsibility and the Role of Government - Messmore, Ryan - Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder #2058, August 2, 2007

The Great Unraveling: Federal Budgeting, 1998-2006 - Rubin, Irene
Public Administration Review, Jul/Aug 2007, v67, #4, pp608-618

Rediscovering Federalism - Nivola, Pietro S. - Brookings Institution, Issues in Governance Studies, July 2007, online edition

Federal Preemption: Principles and Politics
- Greve, Michael S.; Epstein, Richard A., Federal Outlook, AEI Online, June 4, 2007, online edition

Budget Option: Taming the Deficit
- Frenzel, Bill; Sawhill, Isabel V.
Brookings Institution, January 2007, online edition

Presidential Signing Statements: Constitutional and Institutional Implications - T.J. Halstead. - Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service (CRS). September 20, 2006.

Federal Affirmative Action Law: A Brief History - Dale, Charles V. -
Congressional Research Report for Congress, September 13, 2005, 6p

The State of American Federalism, 2005: Federalism Resurfaces in the Political Debate - Dinan, John - Publius, Summer 2006, v36, #3, pp327-365

Budget Villain, Local Hero - Cochran, John - CQ Weekly, June 12, 2006, pp1606ff

Warrantless Government Surveillance: Presidential Authority in Times of War - Pro & Con, April 2006, Vol. 85 #4,various pagings

Lobbying Reform: Accountability through Transparency - Mann, Thomas E. - House Committee on Rules, March 2, 2006, online edition

Cleaning House (and Senate) - Carney, Eliza Newlin - National Journal, Jan 28, 2006, v38, #4, pp30-37

Unlimited Government - DeMuth, Christopher - The American Enterprise, Jan/Feb 2006, v17, #1, pp18-23

Reclaiming Federalism. Barron, David J. Dissent, Spring 2005, v52, #2, pp64-69

Government Information

Internet Freedom Essential to Human Rights, Economic Prosperity - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton - U.S. Department of State, January 21, 2010

Internet Free Speech - Public Citizen, January 2010, online edition

Google's Washington Influence Keeps Growing - Munro, Neil
National Journal, May 9, 2009, v41, #19, pp22-29

Citizen's Briefing Book: To President Barack Obama from the American People - Office of Public Engagement, The White House, May 11, 2009, 33p (PDF)

Google.gov? The Perils of Technology and Government Transparency

Ballon, Daniel R. - Pacific Research Institute, February 6, 2009, 5p (PDF)

State and Federal Electronic Government in the United States, 2008
West, Darrell M. - Governance Studies, Brookings Institute, September 2008, 19p

Think Tank Confidential - DeMuth, Christopher - American Enterprise Institute, October 11, 2007, online edition; also published in the Wall Street Journal on Oct. 11, 2007

State E-Government Strategies: Identifying Best Practices and Applications - Jeffrey W. Seifert; Glenn J. McLoughlin - Congressional Research Service (CRS), Library of Congress, July 23, 2007, pdf format, 61p

Access to Government Information in the United States - Relyea, Harold C.; Kolakowski, Michael W. - Congressional Research Service (CRS), Library of Congress, updated June 13, 2007, pdf format, 6p

Ted Kennedy Special

Ted Kennedy Special: The Accomplishments of Senator Edward M. Kennedy 1962-2009 -
Senator Edward Kennedy's Official Site, August 2009, online edition, 54p

Ted Kennedy Special: Ted Kennedy Special:Senator Ted Kennedy: Historic Speech @ Denver Convention (Video & Transcript) - August 25, 2008

Ted Kennedy Special: “We”: Ted Kennedy’s Seventh Challenge - Halford, Nancy - New Yorker, August 26, 2009, online edition

Ted Kennedy Special: The Making of a Senator - Vanity Fair, August 26, 2009, online edition

Ted Kennedy Special: Why Ted Kennedy Was the Last of His Kind
Brownstein, Ronald - Atlantic Monthly, August 26, 2009, online edition

Ted Kennedy Special: Senator Edward Kennedy: A Liberal Icon and a Legendary Legislator - A Five-Decade Senate Legacy - Stern, Seth - CQPolitics, August 26, 2009, online edition

Ted Kennedy Special: 'The Cause of My Life' - Inside the Fight for Universal Health Care - Kennedy, Edward - Newsweek, July 27, 2009, v154 , #4, pp34-39

Ted Kennedy Special:“The Lion and the Legacy” - Klein, Edward
Vanity Fair, June 2009, online edition






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