Government category: 19669 books
Public Information Management and E-Government
Policy and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Recently, the public sector has given an increasing amount of national and international attention to electronic government systems. Therefore, it is inevitable that the theoretical implications and intersections between information technology and governmental matters are more widely discussed. Public...
How to Be an American
A Field Guide to Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The current political climate has left many of us wondering how our government actually operates. Sure, we learned about it in school, but if put to the test, how many of us can correctly explain the branches of government? The history of politics? The differences and connections between local government...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
As governments worldwide are entering the digital age, there are increasing expectations from citizens and stakeholders for a more responsive, efficient, and open government. Innovations in information technology and web technologies can facilitate these changes. Innovative Perspectives on Public...
Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,...
Utah Politics and Government
American Democracy among a Unique Electorate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
As unique as is Utah’s formative history of civil and religious conflict, its political institutions today broadly resemble those found in other American states. While its majority Mormon population translates into an enormous Republican advantage in local and national elections, Utahns have taken...
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering
History and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what measures...
by Ramesh Kumar Tiwari, Sujata Sing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Since Independence, organisational and procedural issues have occupied centre stage in the litarature on Public Administration in India. The challenges involved in the reorganisation of the Government of India has at the same time been a major concern of the government. Several Committees/Commissions...
by Dawn Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book provides an in-depth narrative of the difficulties facing Territorial Self-Government institutions across Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Iraq. It brings together analyses of both prominent and lesser known cases to provide a broad overview...
Presidential Ideas
Emails, Commentary & Suggestions for a Better United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Its now 2012, president Obama is in office and his presidential race is officially on as Mitt Romney won the republican nomination. Over the past few years, many friends have sent me emails regarding the problems with the United States government and possible suggestions to fix them. As we all know,...
by Paul A. Sracic, William C. Binning
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Ohio Government and Politics provides a thorough, highly readable overview of the history, processes, and institutions of the state’s government and politics. In a country increasingly divided into blue and red states, Ohio is “purple” – one of the few states that is not dominated by a single...
by Jan-Erik Johanson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations. The book is based on the idea that planning is only one option in orienting the functioning of public organisations and applies resource-based and network studies...
The Stances of e-Government
Policies, Processes and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This book focuses on the three inevitable facets of e-government, namely policies, processes and technologies. The policies discusses the genesis and revitalization of government policies; processes talks about ongoing e-government practices across developing countries; technology reveals the inclusion of novel technologies.
The Official History of the British Civil Service
Reforming the Civil Service, Volume I: The Fulton Years, 1966-81
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This first volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service covers its evolution from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854 to the first years of Mrs Thatcher’s government in 1981.
Despite current concerns with good governance and policy delivery, little serious attention has been...
Frank
A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?
Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,...