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When Crime Pays

Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

by Milan Vaishnav
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017

The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics   In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant...
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Governance in South Asia

State of the Civil Services

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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014

The book for the first time offers a comprehensive and contemporary account of the state of civil services in South Asia countries. It brings together experiences of former senior bureaucrats and critics from India and other SAARC nations to affirm the state of civil service and the need for reforms.  While...
Cover of Trade Policy and Global Growth: New Directions in the International Economy
by Robert A. Blecker
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

This collection of essays offers critical perspectives on current issues in the international economy. Divided into four parts, U.S. Trade Policy and Global Growth discusses managed trade and international interdependence, the effect of trade on domestic wages and employment, the costs and benefits...
Cover of America's Poor and the Great Recession
by KRISTIN S SEEFELDT, JOHN DAVID GRAHAM
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013

Millions have entered poverty as a result of the Great Recession's terrible toll of long-term unemployment. Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham examine recent trends in poverty and assess the performance of America’s "safety net" programs. They consider likely scenarios for future developments...
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Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

by Carol Agocs
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine...
Cover of India Beyond Stampede Of Stupidities (Revised & Updated)
by Santosh Jha
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014

In contemporary India, since the end of 2013, a virtual stampede of ideas have been set to unleash catastrophic causalities, as the multiplicities of obsessively espoused ideas are roaming without proper channelizing mechanism and streamlining structures. There is a stampede of stupidities pervading...
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Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party

An introduction to China's cadre management

by Julia Marinaccio
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

The ebook is an introduction into China's cadre management focusing on the institutional mechanisms and organizational processes that allow the CCP to exert control and power over its state apparatus. By means of selection and appointment, the Party continues to influence career mobility of its agents....
Cover of America: Course Correction
by Janice Van Cleve
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011

No matter how you look at it, the United States is in trouble. Endless foreign wars, staggering national debt, disintegrating social safety net, illegal immigration, drugs, corporate crimes, outsourcing, and on and on. Whether you are conservative or liberal, whether you are a tea bagger or an intellectual,...
Cover of Daniel Defoe: Political Writings (Including The True-Born Englishman, An Essay upon Projects, The Complete English Tradesman & The Biography of the Author)
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017

The creator of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe was quite politically active and that activism even resulted with his arrest, placement in a pillory and imprisoning. This collection represents his political activism and mirrors the true political climate in 18 th century England. His most successful...
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Decolonizing Africa and African Development

The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge

by Anthony Victor Obeng
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017

The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara’s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba’s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa’s underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the...
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by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017

In the beginning, the Berlin Conference (1885-1886) was held to settle the disputes among Britain, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Germany that were scrambling for colonial territories in Africa.  During the conference, it was confirmed that Britain had to colonize Nigeria. The Nigerians...
Cover of The Case Against School Choice: Politics, Markets and Fools
by Kevin B. Smith, Kenneth J. Meier
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

"Compelling arguments, supported by both anecdotal and empirical evidence to convince readers that school choice does nothing to improve the quality of education. ... Solidly researched and written, Smith's and Meier's effort should sway those still undecided on the issue". -- Publishers Weekly
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Party Systems in Latin America

Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse

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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

Based on contributions from leading scholars, this study generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems. It also contributes richly to major theoretical and comparative debates about the effects of party systems on democratic politics, and about why some party systems...
Cover of Operation Fast and Furious: Senate Report on the ATF Gunwalking Policy on the Southwest Border, Mexican Gun Trafficking, Death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Mexico Drug Violence
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011

This is a reproduction of a June 2011 Congressional report on the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious, using a strategy called gunwalking which allowed suspects to "walk away" with illegally purchased guns. The report claims that the program facilitated deaths and violence,...
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