Government category: 19669 books
Politics Beyond Left and Right
A Guide for Creating a More Unified Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Politics Beyond Left and Right is a call for nonpartisan leadership from our government, and a call for only electing federal officials that will honor the wishes of the 60% to 80% of us who believe in a federal government that is smaller and more fiscally responsible than what Democrats prefer, but...
Provincial Public Finance in Ontario
An Empirical Analysis of the Last Twenty-five Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
This detailed and informative study makes a timely contribution to a subject that has been the focus of much public discussion and debate in Ontario and elsewhere, namely the size and growth of the public sector. Working with the Public Accounts and other sources, Professor Foot offers both an historical...
Middle Clash
The Issues Which Will to the Creation of a Successful Third Party in the 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Text for Author Bio: Dr. Shinedling is married with five children and six grandchildren. He earned his doctor's degree at Brigham Young University. He did post graduate work in neuropsychology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Shinedling has numerous publications and has presented papers at national...
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
Politics and Quality of Life
The Role of Well-Being in Political Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior. Using carefully collected, granular data, the authors create a measurement of quality of life for each county in the United States. After applying the index to each county and calculating scores, the results...
Government, Policy, and Ideology
Higher Education's Changing Boundaries in Two Island Kingdoms-Japan and England
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Government, Policy, and Ideology analyzes the transformation of the university systems of England and Japan from the early 1980s, with particular reference to the changing modalities of university autonomy and the power relationships between central authorities, the universities, and the market. The...
Diffusion of Good Government
Social Sector Reforms in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
One of the most fundamental questions for social scientists involves diffusion events; simply put, how do ideas spread and why do people embrace them? In Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil, Natasha Borges Sugiyama examines why innovations spread across political territories...
by Lars Poissonnet
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Those in control (TICs) do not want me to publish this book and they don’t want you to read it. This book exposes the real reasons why the world is getting fat and fatter and why your health is going from bad to worse. It’s all a plan to control you and those you care for including past, present...
Citizen Lobbyists
Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Citizen Lobbyists explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects...
by Michael Arnheim
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This book offers a fresh and original analysis of the power structure of a number of societies, past and present. There are and ever have been only two essential models of government: minority rule of all types (labelled "oligocracy") and regimes in which power is concentrated in the hands...
by Scott Huminski
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
A terrifying journey into how our legal systems work in the United States taken from the first-hand true experiences of Scott X Huminski. Huminski explores misconduct within the justice system in Howard Dean's Vermont from police, prosecutors and judges with a case ending up before U.S. Supreme Court...
Administrative Law
The Sources and Limits of Government Agency Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Administrative Law: The Sources and Limits of Government Agency Power explains the sources of administrative agency authority in the United States, how agencies make rules, the rights of clients and citizens in agency hearings, and agency interaction with other branches of government. This concise...
The new politics
Liberal Conservatism or same old Tories?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Does the Coalition government represent a new politics in Britain, or is the new government just the same old Tories hiding behind an opportunist pact with the Liberal Democrats? Does Cameron differ from past Conservatives like Margaret Thatcher, and if so, how? This book looks at the Coalition government...
by Walter E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights and reduced...