Faculty Publications

Books

Edward I. Sidlow and BethHenschen
American at Odds, 5th Edition
2006
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
ISBN: 0495001767

Known for its provocative and engaging issues approachand topical organization, AMERICA AT ODDS explores the currentconflicts that truly define America as a nation while involvingstudents in discussion and debate. The engaging content and pedagogicalfeatures throughout AMERICA AT ODDS support two main goals of the text:to make students genuinely passionate about learning the ins and outsof American politics and government, and to encourage them to thinkabout the ways their lives are affected by decisions made in thepolitical arena. In every chapter of the text, the foundations andsystems of political history, behavior, institutions, and policy arepresented within the framework of issues oriented debate, makingAMERICA AT ODDS truly unique as an approach to teaching theIntroduction to American Government course.
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Carroll, Bruce A.
The Role, Design, and Growing Importance of United States Magistrate Judges
2004
New York: Mellon Press

Edward I. Sidlow
Challenging the Incumbent: An Underdog’sUndertaking
2003
Washington, DC: CQ Press
ISBN: 1-56802-820-2

Courage, commitment, determination, and ego makefirst-time candidates run… But what does it take to makethem win? This new case study animates the scholarship on congressionalelections as it tells an intimate, behind-the-scenes story of the 2000congressional race in Illinois’ 8th district. Lance Pressl, a42-year-old challenger takes on long-time incumbent Phil Crane in apolitical contest that epitomizes the trials and tribulationsconfronting those who dare to run against incumbents. Combining themost recent scholarship on campaigns and elections with an eye-witnessaccount of the day-to-day dynamics of a race, Sidlow documentsPressl’s efforts as he tries to win the support andcommitment of his core constituents and powerful political allies. Thechallenges he faces are legion: Will major demographic changes in thedistrict bode well for Pressl, a moderate Democrat running in awell-established Republican stronghold? Will Pressl’swell-connected personal contacts bring the dollars so critical to hiscampaign? Will they attract enough media attention? To whom can he turnfor sound strategic advice and support? Balancing key issues inelectoral politics with a fascinating David-and-Goliath storyline, thisstudy will give students context in which to understand thedynamics—and the vagaries—of House elections.
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Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark,Editors
Love and Saint Augustine
1996
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0-226-02596-9

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with anexploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborlylove, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence ofMartin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and yearslater took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During thelate 1950s and early 1960s, as she was completing or reworking her mostinfluential studies of political life, Arendt was simultaneouslyannotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying itsargument with terms and concepts she was using in her political worksof the same period. The disseration became a bridge over which Arendttraveled back and forth between 1929 Heidelberg and 1960s New York,carrying with her Augustine's question about the possibility of sociallife in an age of rapid political and moral change. In Love and SaintAugustine, Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark make thisimportant early work accessible for the first time. Here is acompletely corrected and revised English translation that incorporatesArendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes basedon letters, contracts, and other documents as well as the recollectionsof Arendt's friends and colleagues during her later years.
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George Cox and Raymond A. Rosenfeld
State and Local Government: Public Life in America
2001
Wadsworth Thomson Learning
ISBN: 053455542X

This lively book is intended to show what state andlocal governments actually do and especially how their role in Americanpublic life has grown over the past twenty years. Such chapters as"Capitol City Players: Everyday Politics in the States" make thismaterial, which often appears dull in competing books, interesting andimportant.
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Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld
The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development
2001
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
ISBN 0761916903

In this seminal work, the authors argue that there aredistinct local factors that shape the environment of economicdevelopment decision-making. These factors, taken together, constitutea community’s local civic culture. Using survey and casestudy data from U.S. and Canadian cities, the authors make the casethat different cultures will produce different types of economicdevelopment policies, and that local civic culture will effect thewhole array of local policies. The focus on economic development policyprovides a window on local decision-making and allows for thedevelopment of a theory, introduced by the authors, about the role oflocal civic culture in framing local decisions of all types. Thisultimately provides a theoretical vehicle for categorizing cities andpredicting policy outcomes. The book concludes with an overview of whatis known about the economic development process and highlights thequestions raised about that knowledge by the analyses used here and thefocus on civic cultures. New research questions are posed and newdirections raised for continued application of a local civic cultureapproach toward understanding urban policy processes.
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Raymond A.Rosenfeld
Lectures On Public Policy
2002
Kyiv, Ukraine:  Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration.
ISBN: 966–7048–94–X

Public policy is a new field in Ukraine. A number ofyears ago no one heard the words. Raymond Rosenfeld was a pioneer of theintroduction of this discipline in our country. This book is his courseof lectures. It is particularly useful for students of politicalscience.Public policy grew out of political science and found its own wings,it now has very sophisticated methodologies, regressions, muchmathematics. But this book is useful because it shows us how thediscipline began. And ultimately, behind very sophisticatedmethodologies there is something called the art of judgment. Thisis a good guide to this most important of topics.

Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko
Vice Rector
Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration
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