Government category: 19669 books
Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis
Great Recession, Great Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
As a result of the financial crisis, opposition parties have had to choose between the need to cooperate with the majority in order to contribute to necessary socio-economic changes, and the opportunity to stress their adversarial position vis-à-vis governments taking radical and unpopular measures.
This...
Climbing the Hill
How to Build a Career in Politics and Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Inspiring, nonpartisan insider's advice on how anyone can build a career in local, state, and national government, from two rising stars in Washington government and policy.
This inspiring, nonpartisan guide, written by longtime staff members of Republican and Democratic house leadership teams...
Business Improvement Districts in the United States
Private Government and Public Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America’s downtown. These public-private partnerships between property owners and municipal government have developed retail strips across...
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era
The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
A series of laws passed in the 1970s promised the nation unprecedented transparency in government, a veritable "sunshine era." Though citizens enjoyed a new arsenal of secrecy-busting tools, officials developed a handy set of workarounds, from over classification to concealment, shredding,...
by Kevin Theakston, Philip Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the British government policy-making...
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability
Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made ‘citizenship inclusion’ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this...
by Walter Lander
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010
A series of prodigal Congresses, bingeing on credit for many years has set the stage for a federal government fiscal debacle. To recover, the federal government’s predisposition is to first cut the entitlement programs. This book suggests other means for effecting huge savings in the cost of government. It also suggests means for decreasing the average age of the population.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Generally speaking, Web 2.0 technologies support real-time or other innovative, Web-based social interactions, and they are increasingly popular among consumers, the private sector, and more recently, government. Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies defines the...
America's Forgotten History, Part Four: Grotius Rises
America’s Forgotten History, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions,...
Zouping Revisited
Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor force. One possible explanation, examined in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Open government initiatives have become a defining goal for public administrators around the world. However, progress is still necessary outside of the executive and legislative sectors. Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency is a pivotal reference source for the latest...
The Government of Childhood
Discourse, Power and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing.
by Philip B. Heymann
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments...
Field of Reeds
Social, Economic and Political Change in Rural Egypt: in Search of Civil Society and Good Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Have you ever wondered: 1. Who built the Pyramids of Egypt and who are their descendents today? 2. Why does the author challenge the great Greek historian Herodotus, by auguring that Egypt is more a gift from the Fellahin, than a gift of the Nile? 3. What great event happened in the early 1960s that...