Public Affairs category: 1291 books
L'avenir des administrations locales en Europe
Leçons tirées de la recherche et de la pratique dans 31 pays
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Au cours des dernières décennies, les administrations locales en Europe, de plus en plus pressurisées, ont fait face à de multiples défis. Il en a résulté une vague de réformes politiques et administratives, visant à alléger cette pression, qui a modifié la gestion des collectivités locales...
The Strong Man
John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges.
As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals...
by Jodi Kantor
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible.
Then they...
Not in Service
The TTC and the Trouble with Toronto Transit
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Something is badly, badly wrong with transportation in Toronto. Just riding public transit provides evidence of that, along with a pain in the neck. Torontonians still love the TTC, but just wish it would shape up, and are painfully aware it hasn't been world-class for at least a generation. The...
by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Obama is a tribute to the rise of a man who became the first African-American and 44th President of the United States of America. President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. His story is the American...
How to Run A Government
So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Why is this? And what can we do about it? In this groundbreaking book Michael Barber draws on his wealth of international experience advising political leaders, to show how those in power can make good on their promises.
'Refreshingly...
by R. A. W. Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
As citizens, why do we care about the everyday life of ministers and civil servants? We care because the decisions of the great and the good affect all our lives, for good or ill. For all their personal, political, and policy failings and foibles, they make a difference. So, we want to know what ministers...
by W J Foote
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
New Zealand World War II conscientious objectors were treated more harshly by the authorities than those in other countries.Imprisoned for their pacifist beliefs, first in Mt Eden and Wanganui, Chris Palmer and Merv Browne were then moved to military defaulters’ camps in the central North...
by Gus Russo
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1998
Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that...
by Michael Bakunin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Bakunin's classic and highly influential atheist text setting out the anarchist critique of religion as bound up in legitimising the state.
The keynote of God and the State is Bakunin’s repudiation of authority and coercion in every form. In a withering passage he vents his fury, on “all...
The politics of civil society (Second edition)
Big society and small government
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling...
Take Up Your Pen
Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government—yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation...
In Lies We Trust
How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
What politicians and the media don't want you to know.
Millions of Americans at both ends of the political spectrum are angry and fed up with being lied to by politicians and the media. The emergence of “outsider” presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is proof that people...