Government category: 19669 books
American Coup
How a Terrified Government Is Destroying the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A stunning exploration of the subtle erosion of freedom in an age of concocted fear and de facto military authority.
When we think of a military coup, the first image that comes to mind is a general, standing at a podium with a flag behind him, declaring the deposing of elected leaders and...
Stolen Sovereignty
How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
We are confronted with a jarring reality that the Left has succeeded in growing the power of the courts. Obama has replaced roughly 30 percent of the district and appellate judges on the federal benches. We are now facing a judicial time bomb, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. With the...
Starve The Beast
How to Save America
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Progressives have Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, and now ordinary Americans have Starve The Beast! STB tells American citizens how to defeat progressive propaganda, tactics, and initiatives. It builds on the successful strategy pursued by the first Congress, and shows how to rein-in...
Municipal Politics in Turkey
Local Government and Party Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular. However, local government and party organization, although very important topics, are strikingly understudied.
This book compares local politics in two Central Anatolian cities, Konya and Eskişehir,...
by Arnold Fleischmann, Robert M. Howard, Richard N. Engstrom
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination. This brief and affordable study aid begins with...
How Ireland Voted 2016
The Election that Nobody Won
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book is the definitive analysis of the 2016 Irish general election and is the eighth book in the well-established How Ireland Voted series. The 2011 election in Ireland was characterised as an earthquake, but the aftershocks visible in the 2016 election were equally dramatic. This election saw...
Oka
A Political Crisis and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors...
by John J. Dinan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.S. Constitution drafted in 1787. Yet constitutional debates at the state level open a window on how Americans, in different places and at different times, have chosen to govern themselves. From New Hampshire in 1776...
by J. Ahearne
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the pivotal decade of 2002-2012. Looking at issues of secularism, education, televisual performance, public memory and nation-branding Ahearne analyses how presidents Chirac and Sarkozy sought to redefine contemporary French identity.
Political Theories of Modern Government (Routledge Revivals)
Its Role and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
This reissued work, originally published in 1985, is a uniquely broad and original survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies. After analysing the external pressures which have shaped modern governments, the author...
by Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Policy Research Report Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? brings analytical rigor to a field that has been the subject of intense debate and advocacy, and billions of dollars in development aid. It briefly reviews the history of participatory development and argues that its two modalities,...
Democracy for Realists
Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.
Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of...
by Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The purpose of the book is to investigate parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation. By analysing the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments, Pelizzo and Stapenhurst...
These Estimable Courts
Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In These Estimable Courts, Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates explore how citizens feel about the government institutions at the front lines of jurisprudential policy-making in America - our nation's state and local courts. The book's central focus concerns a primary question of governance: why do people...