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by Travis Holley
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
How to Fix the United States Government is a political science non-fiction book geared toward offering simple solutions to major problems facing the United States and the world.
by Claudio O. Delang
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation.
China’s Air Pollution Problems...
Partisan Balance
Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through such heated partisan...
by Claudio O. Delang
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Water pollution is one of the most serious problems plaguing China today with millions of citizens drinking water unfit for consumption. These abysmal conditions have fuelled increasing social discontent, as people become more concerned by the need to address the pressing issues of water pollution,...
The Politics of Crisis Management in China
The Sichuan Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People’s...
by Michael Heppell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Capacity development is central to improving standards of living and reducing poverty in developing member countries. It is much more than just training or skills transfer; it is about effective institutions, a sound unpoliticized policy environment, accountability systems, effective relationships,...
The Collapse of Fortress Bush
The Crisis of Authority in American Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the “imperial presidency” gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin. But the inside story of the failures of the Bush administration is both much...
Presidential Leadership
The Political Relations of Congress and the Chief Executive
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The nature of the presidency is an issue that has been debated since the drafting of the United States Constitution. The Federalists felt a strong executive was the backbone and prime mover of a strong government. On the other side, the Anti-Federalists felt the presidency represented monarchical...
by Ludvig Solvang
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The most remarkable with Brexit, is the way British conservative politicians regard their European counterparts. They really believed, Britain would enjoy “a better deal” with EU as an outsider, than in the Union.Theresa May’s government sold a free trade deal to Nissan, long before negotiations...
Watchdog
The Real Stories Behind the Headlines from the Congressman Who Exposed Washington's Biggest Scandals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
You might think you had a front-row seat to the shocking scandals of Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, Fast & Furious, illegal email servers, mishandling America's secrets and cover-ups at the EPA. The rest of the story, told here for the first time, is even more troubling.
In...
Lost Rights
The Destruction of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis
National Trajectories and International Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International...
The Pig Book
How Government Wastes Your Money
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Information technology is everywhere. As we continue to expand our use of ICT in all aspects of our lives, the use of information communication technology has been developed in support of engaging citizens in the government decision making process. Cases on Progressions and Challenges in ICT Utilization...