Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-49
The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-49
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alliances, and in particular...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Forms of government are the different systems and structures that are adopted for administering a State.
Forms of government are the different ways in which the structures and functions of government are arranged in different States.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will...
The Political Economy of Economic Reform in the Pacific
Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This collection of studies on the political economy of Pacific island countries was authored by writers from various disciplinary backgrounds. Their research confirms the results of political economy studies of economic reform in developing countries from elsewhere around the world and shines new...
Incremental Polarization
A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters...
Controlling the Bureaucracy: Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice
Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Controls on the bureaucracy through administrative due process and presidential and congressional prerogatives are the focus of this book. The author examines these controls and assesses the trade-offs among them.
Building Better Policies
The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis...
Managing America's Small Communities
People, Politics, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Managing America's Small Communities charts several key aspects of the largely unexamined world of small city management. This book describes the democraphic trends, structural features, executive behavior and service quality among small communities. Are small cities growing, declining or have they...
by Colin Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
How can a capitalist system reconcile its need to combine workers on uncertain incomes and conditions with consumers confident that they can spend? The approaches of different national economies to this conundrum have had varying degrees of success, as well as diverse implications for social inequality....
Palestinian Civil Society
Foreign donors and the power to promote and exclude
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and institutional...
by Global Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
As the BRICS grouping nears a decade of existence, this GP-ORF volume offers commentary from pre-eminent scholars and emerging next-generation researchers on measures that can separate and insulate the group from the vagaries of international discord. It provides area-specific insights and recommendations...
Helping America Vote
The Limits of Election Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A repeat of the Florida debacle in the 2000 presidential election is the fear of every election administrator. Despite the relatively complication-free 2008 election, we are working with fairly new federal legislation designed to ease election administration problems. The implementation of the Help...
by Allan Handyside
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Compelling story of a World War II conscientious objector captures a piece of New Zealand history that is not well known. The small group of people described here had a strong influence on the thinking of others as New Zealanders later grappled with the issues raised by the Vietnam War in the late...
The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
How Political Communication in Social Networks Improves Civic Competence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why...
Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State
The Johnson Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
During the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson and his administration substantially altered the structure of the American administrative state. Creating intergovernmental programs to forward the goal of the Great Society, they changed the contours of national-state-local relationships, and these changes...