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by Prof. Sydney Ugwunna
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book gives one of the most comprehensive and unique accounts of prejudice and racial discrimination in the united states of America in the early nineteen sixties to the present time. Sydney, who later became an American citizen, lived in the united states for fifty years. However, as an...
Public Policymaking in a Globalized World
Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The inexorable advent of globalization has transformed the public policymaking process into a multi-faceted challenge that transcends traditional policymaking boundaries and forces scholars, experts, and practitioners to redefine their field in terms of both theory and practice. While every policy...
The Power of the Texas Governor
Connally to Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
George W. Bush called it "the best job in the world," yet many would argue that the Texas governorship is a weak office. Given few enumerated powers by the Texas Constitution, the governor must build a successful relationship with the state legislature—sometimes led by a powerful lieutenant governor...
Not With A Bang But A Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
A beautifully-written and thought-provoking collection of essays on social, political and literary issues as diverse as violent crime on Britain's streets, the effects of the welfare state, modern architecture and the respective merits of Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson. Dalrymple uses examples from his...
by Maurice Joly
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This book has traits that can be applied to all governments, but it has one precise goal: to personify one political system in particular that has not varied in its methods for a single day since the unfortunate and, alas, already too faraway date of its inauguration.
This is not a lampoon...
by Dennis Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Not Interested in the upcoming Federal Election? Than this eBook is for you! If you are interested, than this is also for you! It provides general information on the two major parties (Labor and Liberal). It is definately worth the read...
by Ayodeji Dire-Odukale
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In this era of immigration. It has come a time for all to rise up. Africa must stand united.
By empowering our people, our culture and heritage.
Making Africa work for us.
United we stand together as one tribe.
The heartbeat of the Earth.
An Education in Politics
Four Years in the Iowa State Senate 2004-2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Dave Mulder comes from an academic background, and his experience in the world of politics has been insightful. He has many timely observations as to how to strengthen the political system.
Tom Osborne,
Athletic Director, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Its refreshing to see two Legislators...
Federalism on Trial
State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system," Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." It is one...
In the City of Neighborhoods
Seattle's History of Community Activism <Br>And Non-Profit Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2004
"It's like being in a small town right in the middle of a big city. People belong to their neighborhood first, and that neighborhood belongs to the city."-Karen Boyle, Seattle neighborhood activist.
Seattle, Washington, has earned a national reputation as a "City of Neighborhoods"...
Greatly Exaggerated
The Myth of the Death of Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers, Marc Edge dives deep into the history and finances of North American newspapers and media conglomerates, and comes up with a surprising conclusion: the newspaper business is far more healthy and profitable than believed. They've been roiled...
Crime & Politics
Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important-and...
Game Changer
Winning Political Victories without Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Game Changer
By: Erhabor Ighodaro
Life is a game and we all are players. Some may be unaware of their role in the game and may in fact be oblivious to the game being played. You are either a player or you are been played.
There is no room for spectators in a platform that is made for...
by Michael Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Survey of Organizational Excellence is revolutionizing the operation of Texas state agencies and other governmental and private organizations. Developed and refined over the last twenty years by a team of researchers led by Michael Lauderdale, the survey is a proven tool for improving the effectiveness...