Government category: 19669 books
State and Local Pensions
What Now?
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue. Elected officials, academic experts, and the media alike have pointed to funding shortfalls with alarm, expressing concern that pension promises are unsustainable...
Populist Authoritarianism
Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public...
Patronage and Power
Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese...
Social versus Corporate Welfare
Competing Needs and Interests within the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place from 2008 were unique only in their size and...
Rethinking the Welfare State
Government by Voucher
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Rethinking the Welfare State offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada.
The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables...
Republic, Lost
Version 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Revised and updated for the 2016 election with 75% new material.
In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in *Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-*trust...
The Global Debt Crisis
Haunting U.S. and European Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States. Old confrontations over fiscal responsibility are being renewed, often in a more virulent form, in places as far flung as Detroit, Michigan, and Valencia, Spain,...
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan...
America at Risk
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers, which range from dwindling political...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore...
by Steven Michels
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Are the politics of the United States to blame for its current unsteady footing in the 21st century? This book aims to answer this uncomfortable but relevant question by examining the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, addressing complex topics such as the history of liberalism, the relationship...
Shattered Consensus
The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institutional and cultural adjustments that set the stage for a new phase of political and economic development....
Sustainable
The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Sustainable: The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals describes in detail the process being used at every level of government to reorganize our society under the excuse of environmental protection. Author Tom DeWeese pulls back the curtain to reveal the policies and the powers...
by Susan M. Opp, Samantha L. Mosier, Jeffery L. Osgood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Local officials are responsible for a number of important tasks that have a significant impact on the quality of life of most Americans. Arguably, the policy choices made by local governments in the United States more directly impact individual well-being than do the choices made at any other level...