Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Follow the Leader?
How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters...
by Rebekah L. Herrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
An enduring question for most nations has been how to best represent their citizens and their needs. This is a complex issue as there is no universally accepted definition of good representation. Representation and Institutional Design addresses the issues of institutions and representation by examining...
American Public Administration
Public Service for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the last decade. Now in an extensively revised and updated second edition, authors Cropf and Wagner weave the most recent and compelling research throughout every...
The Devil In The Detail
How The Arms Deal Changed Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
The South African 'Arms Deal' was never a single event. Rather it was, and still is, a series of scandals and outrages, all contributing towards a dubious momentum that takes South Africa further away from transparent democratic practice. The Devil in the Detail, written by two of South Africa's leading...
by David Beetham, Christopher Lord
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Most of the contemporary debates about the European Union - about its role, its institutional arrangements, its development dynamic, its expansion and possible futures - revolve around the issue of political legitimacy. Legitimacy and the European Union addresses the fundamental issues at the heart...
by Sylvia Kritzinger, Raj S. Chari
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
EU policy shapes all areas of our lives - from our money, to our food, to our welfare. Yet we know little about how EU decisions are made, and who benefits from them. This book is a critical guide to the policies of the EU.*BR**BR*Raj Chari and Sylvia Kritzinger argue that there is an agenda that...
Deliberative Democracy for the Future
The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
In today's world, public policies are increasingly associated with social and environmental risk and scientific uncertainty. Given such potential impacts on the moral freedom and equality for existing and future generations, policies should reflect decision-making standards beyond those of economic...
Machiavellian Management
A Chief Executive's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Based on Machiavelli's "The Prince", this modernisation describes what modern capitalists need to know to be able to get and hold onto corporate power.
Machiavelli's original notorious and amoral guide was written for one of the Medici princes. It was probably one of the world's...
Smart Citizens, Smarter State
The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. She offers a vision of participatory democracy rooted not in voting or crowdsourcing but in people’s knowledge and know-how.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
President Obama comes into office on a wave of history—the first African-American President, recipient of more votes than any other candidate in American history, and among the youngest to hold the office. His election is the extraordinary final act of a dramatic election season, which saw Democrats...
Deception
The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Finally the truth about the YouTube video Hillary blamed for Benghazi. The last thing Hillary Clinton wants you to read is the truth about the infamous YouTube video she claimed sparked the Benghazi attacks. That’s why Cindy Lee Garcia—the deceived actress from the video—is Hillary's worst...
El Brasil de Lula
diputados y magistrados
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Este texto tiene por objeto examinar las condiciones legales, el contexto y las consecuencias de que el Poder Judicial y la magistratura se hayan constituido en actores políticos.
El sexenio de Televisa
Conjuras del poder mediático
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2012
El imperio televisivo guarda celosamente, como en los melodramas que produce, una serie de historias secretas de familia, de historias de brokers, de fraudes financieros a sus accionistas y de presiones políticas que ponen en evidencia el poder ilimitado de este monopolio. Es hora de que la opinión...
El presidente
Manual para electores y elegidos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Hace más de 500 años, en unas circunstancias totalmente diferentes, Maquiavelo redactó EL Príncipe para describir la conducta que debía tener la autoridad con el objeto de sujetar el poder firmemente.
Este libro va dirigido a los presidentes y, muy especialmente, a quienes deben elegirlo....