Local Government category: 1701 books
New Jersey Politics and Government
The Suburbs Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fourth edition is thoroughly updated to reflect the challenges New Jersey has overcome and those it continues to face: sustaining growth and opportunity in a multicultural society, providing quality education, and protecting the environment. State politics and government have been almost entirely...
Modernising Irish Government
The Politics of Administrative Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Modernising Irish Government presents the major historical turning points in the development of Irish public services with a particular focus on the civil service, covering the mid-nineteenth-century reforms, the foundations of the State and the Lemass-Whittaker economic initiative. It introduces...
White-Collar Government
The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult...
Progressive Cities
The Commission Government Movement in America, 1901–1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Although the commission government movement is often treated by historians as an element of the reform surge of the Progressive Era, this is the first full-scale study of the origins, spread, and decline of the commission idea. Commission government originated in Galveston, Texas, where business leaders...
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore...
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...
by Federico A. Castillo Blanco, Estanislao Arana García, Federico A. Castillo Blanco
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
El estudio del Derecho Local se torna como una variable necesaria para la formación de los alumnos universitarios que tiendan a especializarse en el Derecho Público. De ahí que la elaboración de estos materiales nazcan con dos objetivos principales: de un lado, con la vocación de servir de base...
Soft Corruption
How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to buy government results....
The Politics of Resentment
Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square,...
by Gerald Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
New York remains the Empire State. Its trillion dollar economy makes the state a national-and often world-leader in banking, finance, publishing, soft services (law, accounting, insurance, consulting), higher education, culture, and the arts. With more than one in five of its residents having immigrated...
Strangers on Their Native Soil
Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803-1809
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
After the United States purchased Louisiana, many inhabitants of the new American territory believed that Louisiana would quickly be incorporated into the Union and that they would soon enjoy rights as citizens. In March of 1804, however, Congress passed the Act for the Organization of Orleans Territory,...
by Robert M. Howard, Arnold Fleischmann, Richard N. Engstrom
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect developments in Georgia politics and government since 2007—a decade that has seen three presidential election cycles, two midterm elections, and a census. Updates reflect not only changes in how Georgia is governed but also the economic and...
by Paul A. Sracic, William C. Binning
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Ohio Government and Politics provides a thorough, highly readable overview of the history, processes, and institutions of the state’s government and politics. In a country increasingly divided into blue and red states, Ohio is “purple” – one of the few states that is not dominated by a single...
The Legislative Branch of the Federal Government
Purpose, Process, and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The Legislative Branch, created by Article I of the Constitution, is comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the United States Congress. This book not only studies the powers of the legislative branch and the organization of both houses of Congress, but also examines...