Government category: 19669 books
Challenging the Performance Movement
Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
"Accountability" is a watchword of our era. Dissatisfaction with a range of public and private institutions is widespread and often expressed in strong critical rhetoric. The reasons for these views are varied and difficult to translate into concrete action, but this hasn't deterred governments and nongovernmental...
by Kenneth Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Replete with practical advice for anyone considering a career in federal, state, or local government, Caught between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service conveys what life is really like in a public service job. The book is written as a series of lively, entertaining letters of...
Toward Better Governance in China
An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government...
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
A Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts
Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that...
Government at Work
Policymaking in the Twenty-First-Century Congress
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In this edited volume, an array of scholars has examined recent policymaking efforts in selected areas of contemporary importance. Government at Work: Policymaking in the Twenty-First Century Congress provides chapter-length treatment to reveal the similarities and fundamentals of policy development...
by Kyril Plaskon
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Government secrecy is likely one of the most controversial topics of our time. Often it is difficult to grasp the actual impacts of secrecy on our lives, but there is one book that does examine the impact over decades called Silent Heroes of the Cold War Declassified. Senate Majority Leader Harry...
by LTC Antonio G. Parlade Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Maoist-inspired Communist Party of the Philippines celebrated its 37th anniversary on December 2005. It marks a long history of violence, terror, and instability in the archipelagic country of 87 million people, causing thousands of casualties among government troops, insurgents, and including...
The Trusted Leader
Building the Relationships that Make Government Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Improving government on a macro level is only possible with public managers who herald change on a micro level. While many studies of government reform focus on new policies and programs, these public managers—building relationships built on trust—are the real drivers behind many successful reforms.
In...
Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia
Jakarta's security and autonomy policies in Aceh
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta's response towards the armed separatist movement...
Fed Up
The Federal Government's War on America
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
As a believer in God, the father of five children, and a passionate patriot, I am literally Fed Up watching the America I love being systematically destroyed by our government. World-dominating powers have been seeking to destroy this republic of freedom since its birth in the 1700s. Internal forces...
by Walter Keene Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Conservation and development of natural resources are issues of critical importance throughout the world. These issues have been matters of public concern in Texas since legislators first adopted the state-sponsored geological survey as a means of extending government funds to private citizens who...
The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages
The Structure and Personnel of Government: South Wales 1277-1536
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings...
The Politics of London
Governing an Ungovernable City
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Interest in the governance of London has remained high in the years following the election of a London mayor and all the twists and turns of Mayor Livingstone's term of office, including struggles with Whitehall and the boroughs. Written by a leading authority, The Politics of London provides a definitive...
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The State's Role in Minority Integration
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany,...