Government category: 19669 books
Simpler
The Future of Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children’s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating...
Hostile Takeover
How Big Business Bought Our Government and How We Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Do you ever wonder if there’s a connection between the corruption scandals in the news and the steady decline in the quality of life for millions of Americans?
Do you ever wonder what corporations get for the millions of dollars they pour into the American political system?
Do you...
The Tools of Government
A Guide to the New Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and...
Unaccountable
Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A unique insider's account of the Harper government so damning that it cannot be ignored
In March 2008, Kevin Page was appointed by the federal Conservatives to be the country's first Parliamentary Budget Officer. The move fulfilled a Tory campaign promise to deliver greater government transparency...
by Alan L. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Confessions of a Government Man is filled with astute, often hilarious memoirs of Alan Greenberg’s thirty-nine year career with the U.S. General Services Administration. His real-life tales of deception and sleight-of-hand maneuvers in high government places include a cast of characters worthy of...
GAS WARS
Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Prime minister of India Manmohan Singh has been accused of changing ministerial portfolios at the behest of the Reliance group. There have been claims that the group deliberately squatted on reserves of natural gas and curtailed production in anticipation of higher prices that are administered by the...
Raven Rock
The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is “a frightening eye-opener” (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today, and "contains everything one could possibly want to know" (The Wall...
Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds,...
Written Out of History
The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Some of America’s most important founders have been erased from our history books. In the fight to restore the true meaning of the Constitution, their stories must be told.
In the earliest days of our nation, a handful of unsung heroes—including women, slaves,...
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore...
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...
by Elizabeth Anderson Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
California's government has a lot in common with the federal government. Both have a Constitution and three branches. Learn how these three levels of government—local, state, and federal—work together to make, enforce, and interpret the laws. This primary source reader details how California's...
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE
AND ITS INFLUENCE ON GENERAL VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
"In 1793, William Godwin, the first philosopher of anarchism, published An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. This three-volume work gives evidence of being strongly influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution and argues that the rational being, the human, must be given complete freedom...
Summary: Broken Government - John W. Dean
How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of John W. Dean's book: "Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches".This summary of the ideas from John W. Dean's book "Broken Government" presents the author's belief that Republicans have transgressed or ignored traditional rules...