Government category: 19669 books
by EDITORIAL BOARD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book gives a vivid description of Chanakya's doctrines, as written in his famous book, Arthashastra. The entire content has been taken from the original book but simplified and explained in an easy language for the common man. There are 17 chapters in the book containing the true essence of an...
by Ram Bansal
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Ruling class people in independent India have in their mental core a wish to rule the people forever, for which they sow seeds of beggary in minds of children of common people by providing them freeships of various kinds like Mid-day Meal, Free Books, Free School Uniform, Stipend, etc. Thus, label...
Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book is intended to ask— and attempt to answer— tough questions about the National Security State in the US and why the US government has sought to eliminate all notions of privacy
The author is a prominent National Security analyst, whose website receives over 7,000 hits per day....
The Blame Game
Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed....
Uneasy Partnership
The Politics of Business and Government in Canada, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In this new edition of Uneasy Partnership, Geoffrey Hale examines the interdependent relationship between Canadian governments and businesses, considering governments’ multiple roles in the economy and their implications for the business environment. Hale provides an overview of the historical dimensions...
by Patrick B. Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The citizens of the United States love to hate their own government, and much of the disdain is particularly directed at the bureaucrats. Part of the problem is contained within the idea of bureaucracy itself. Most government agencies operate under a rational system which results in the 'victory of...
Ploughing New Ground
Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive...
Singapore Perspectives 2012
Singapore Inclusive: Bridging Divides
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the broad policy discussions that animate thought...
Open Budgets
The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands-from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic...
Urban Nation
Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Canada’s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government—or any government, for that matter—to act on the issues that influence their constituents’ lives. Cities...
Democracy's Dangers & Discontents
The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens...
The Big Handout
How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live In and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Just reading the word "subsidies" may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous impact on all of us. The Big Handout is about bad fiscal, environmental, agricultural,...
by Ricardo Acuna, Bob Barnetson, Sara Dorow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces...
State Management
An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates...