News, Media & Publications
Publications
December 1, 2018
Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies (Second Edition)
The Sourcebook examines the diverse characteristics of the departments, agencies, and other organizational entities that comprise the federal executive establishment and catalogues a comprehensive set of characteristics for each entity, including structure (e.g., commission or single-head agency, internal organization), personnel (e.g., number and types of appointed positions, limitations on removal), decision-making processes and requirements, political oversight, […]
October 1, 2018
A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
In A Nation Forged by Crisis, Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the American Revolution was a consequence of the increasing integration of the British […]
August 1, 2018
American Constitutional Law, Volumes 1 & 2
American Constitutional Law, Volume 1: Government Powers and Democracy and American Constitutional Law, Volume 2: Liberty, Community, and the Bill of Rights are unique casebooks that encourage citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles and policies of the American constitutional order. In addition to their distinguished authorship, the books […]
August 1, 2018
Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality—a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing […]
October 1, 2017
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to […]
August 1, 2017
PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire
In 1974, Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the PTL Club, from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C., with half a dozen friends. By 1987, they stood at the center of a ministry empire that included their own satellite network, a 2300-acre theme park visited by six million people a year, and […]