Local Government category: 1701 books
Chris Christie
The Inside Story of His Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become a national Republican Party figure, famous for his blunt public statements, his willingness to confront powerful special interests, and his determination to change the ingrown, corrupt, backroom political culture of New Jersey. In just two years as governor,...
by Franklin Hichborn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
I. The Union Labor Party Movement
II. The Ruef Board of Supervisors
III. The San Francisco Ruef Ruled
IV. San Francisco After the Fire of 1906
V. Graft Prosecution Opens
VI. Ruef’s Fight to Take the District Attorney’s...
The Rise of the Public Authority
Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal and financial barriers, they created a new class of quasi-public...
by Eric Alterman
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
It is, as he writes in the preface, “an attempt to move beyond the day-to-day headlines that dominate our political debate. By placing Bill de Blasio’s words, and the actions of his administration, into a political, cultural, social, and intellectual context, we can see just how daunting the task...
Toward an Ethic of Citizenship
Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2000
The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of...
by Hank Savitch, James C. Clinger, Michael W. Hail
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades to...
Accountability Politics
Power and Voice in Rural Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve...
LBJ and Grassroots Federalism
Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas reveals the local ramifications of federal policy. Three case studies in the rising career of Lyndon B. Johnson show this in action: LBJ's formative experience as a New Dealer directing the National Youth Administration...
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...
Promised Land
A Nun’s Struggle to Resist Landlessness, Lawlessness, Slavery, Poverty, Corruption, Injustice, and Environmental Devastation in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Sister Leonora Brunetto lives and works in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso. In 1978, rainforest covered the region. Today, cattle pastures stretch to the horizon, their unshaded grass rippling with heatwaves. Ranches of tens of thousands of acres benefit single families who have no title to the land....
Finding Common Ground
The Art of Legislating in an Age of Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Democracy has never been a quick or easy process by which to get things done. But many citizens are fed up with the current, extreme partisan gridlock at the national, state, and even local levels of government.
Dave Bishop spent most of his twenty years in the Minnesota House of Representatives...
The Failure of Governance in Bell, California
Big-Time Corruption in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
“How could this have happened?” The question still lingers among officials and residents of the small southern California town of Bell. Corruption is hardly an isolated challenge to the governance of America’s cities. But following decades of benign obscurity, Bell witnessed the emergence of...
African Americans in White Suburbia
Social Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable employment opportunities and political resources—but not necessarily neighbors,...
Our Politics
Reflections on Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Douglas Kane, an American politician and economist, offers readers a straightforward, personal account of what it is like to run for and hold public office—the demands, conflicts, temptations, and rewards created by political, economic, and social forces. Throughout the book, Kane references Illinois...