Government category: 19669 books
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
This publication provides joint doctrine for homeland defense across the range of military operations. It provides information on planning, command and control, interorganizational coordination, and operations required to defeat external threats to, and aggression against, the homeland, or against...
Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains
Improving Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds,...
by John Ferejohn, Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive?
Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this provocative question, John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth trace the surprising ways in which...
Bad History, Worse Policy
How a False Narrative About the Financial Crisis Led to the Dodd-Frank Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking that led to the Dodd-Frank Act. The book shows that every major provision of the act can be traced directly to that narrative,...
by Marjorie Tallman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1953
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1953
A collection of hundreds of words and expressions fully but simply defined, valuable for a clearer understanding of the operation of our national, state and local governments.
Money Matters
Local Government Finance in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November reinforced the importance of public finance reform. Drawing on recent technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), special reports, and the work of ADB staff, the publication offers observation...
Government Agencies
Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers through the crowded world of agencies, describing their tasks, autonomy, control and history. Evidence-based lessons and recommendations are formulated to improve agencification policies in post-NPM times.
The Collected Works of Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom, Congressional Government, George Washington, Essays, Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union Addresses, Presidential Decisions and Biography of Woodrow Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This meticulously edited collection presents to you the life and works of President Woodrow Wilson. Content: Essays: The New Freedom When A Man Comes To Himself The Study of Administration Leaders of Men The New Democracy Inaugural Addresses: First Inaugural Address Second Inaugural Address State...
The American Commonwealth
Vol. 1: The National Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Professor Bryce's work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. Without exaggeration, it may be called...
by Geoffrey Sander
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Did you know that bio-fuels actually increase CO2 emissions, or that hydrogen fuel cells increase reliance on fossil fuels and imported oil? We have enough oil in the ground to last more than five hundred years, a figure easily verifiable using U.S. government data, yet we’re spending billions of...
by Alexandre Ardichvili, Elena Zavyalova
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Unlike Brazil, India, or China, prior to the beginning of market-oriented reforms in early 1990s, Russia maintained a high level of human capital and possessed a highly developed system of vocational education, continuous education, and management development institutions sponsored by the government....
The Revolution of 2010
The Fight for Freedom, Values, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DID NOT BEGIN WITH SHOTS FIRED FROM A GUN. The Revolution began much earlier, born of a growing discontent with a government that was unresponsive to the peoples needs, unrepresentative of the peoples views, and that denied its citizens their basic liberties.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Though...
The Resilient Sector Revisited
The New Challenge to Nonprofit America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.
Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions...
Costly Fix
Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues. It considers the position of First Nations, the character and strength of environmental critiques, and the difficulties that...