Public Affairs category: 1291 books
The regeneration of east Manchester
A political analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally. The initiative in east Manchester confirmed the tag that the city is the ‘regeneration capital’ of the United Kingdom.
While the book focuses on a single project, it has wider relevance...
Unlocking E-Government Potential
Concepts, Cases and Practical Insights
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Unlocking E-Government Potential: Concepts, Cases and Practical Insights serves as a practical guide for conceptualizing and implementing e-government at the local, state and national levels and provides an overview of the global experience in implementing the same. This book is a sequel to the author's...
Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity
Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations–in particular, Québec, Scotland, and Catalonia–and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities,...
Institutional Theory in Political Science
The New Institutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.
Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises...
Coming to Terms
The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s...
Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama
“Suddenly,…All the Truth Was Coming Out”
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
David A. J. Richards’s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,…All The Truth Was Coming Out" builds on his and Carol Gilligan’s The Deepening Darkness to examine the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Why are Americans' identity narratives important for national security? This thesis utilizes a qualitative approach to analyze American identity narratives in U.S. history...
by William H. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Why does Alabama rank so low on many of the indicators of quality of life? Why did some of the most dramatic developments in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s take place in Alabama? Why is it that a few interest groups seem to have the most political power in Alabama? William H. Stewart’s...
The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages
The Structure and Personnel of Government: South Wales 1277-1536
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings...
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development
The Bloomington School
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement....
by Maria de los Angeles Trigo
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Su guía para entender por qué la junta de control existe y cuáles serán sus prioridades al gobernar a Puerto Rico
¿CUÁL FUE LA PROMESA?
Bajo la PROMESA, a pesar de que los puertorriqueños elegiremos al Gobernador y a los miembros de la Asamblea Legislativa, las leyes, reglamentos,...
Administrative Law and Politics
Cases and Comments
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the Fifth Edition of Administrative Law and Politics, authors Christine B. Harrington and Leif H. Carter show the scope and power of administrative government and demonstrate how the legal system shapes administrative procedure and practice. Using accessible language and examples, the casebook...
Santé humaine
Création d'un laboratoire
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Vers un allongement illimité de la durée de la vie:
-Le retard de l'intelligence artificielle
-Création d'un laboratoire
Il n'est pas sacrilège de parler d'immortalité humaine en raison des progrès des sciences et de l'ingénierie robotique. Tout ou presque se trouve...
by John McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
This is my take on how we can make the world a better place to live.
Much of the 20th and 21st Century has been about "Bigger is Better" or "Get Big or Get Out". All well and good for the top 5% but how has it worked out at the grassroots level.
My book "Smaller is...