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Class Attitudes in America
Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard conceptions of the American public as anti-government, individualistic, and racially prejudiced. Bringing...
by William D. Schreckhise
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Lurking in the back of the minds of many students of American government is the question, “How well does the American political system work?” This book examines this in a way that is broad in approach and accessible to readers.
Such an ambitious examination of the effectiveness of the American...
Personality and the Challenges of Democratic Governance
How Unconscious Thought Influences Political Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book examines how the five-factor model of personality (also known as the Big Five)—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience—influence individuals’ ability to understand and engage in four areas of civic life. First, it...
Combative Politics
The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American public so often reject policies that seem to offer...
by Eric Balkan
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Think your political opinions are the result of carefully reasoned thought? Think that everyone would agree with you if they just weren't so clueless? Think again! Big government vs small government, free market vs a regulated market, individual freedom vs group benefits, conservative vs liberal.......
by William K.G. Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In a nation ‘freed without freedom, led without leaders, governed without governance, and justice is just-them;’ Dr. William Kpanah Gowah Barnes, a distinguished Liberian educator, expert of governance, former executive of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and a victim of injustices,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration is a comprehensive leading-edge guide for students, scholars and practitioners of public policy and administration. Public policy and administration are key aspects of modern societies that affect the daily lives of all citizens. This...
Fat Politics
The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these...
Sustainable Energy and the States
Essays on Politics, Markets and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
With America’s dependence on fossil fuels painfully apparent due to world events and the resultant sharply rising gas prices, the search for renewable energy sources has never been more important. Still, the quest for sustainable energy is far from new. Since passage of the National Energy Act of...
Progress in Public Management in the Middle East and North Africa
Case Studies on Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
The MENA-OECD Governance Programme supports public sector reform in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Since its inception in 2003, the programme has helped the region to improve institutions for good governance through continuous policy review and reform.
The need to accelerate...
The Responsible Contract Manager
Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers. As more government duties are contracted out, managers must learn to coordinate and measure the performance of private contractors, and to write contract requirements and elicit bids that obtain important services and products...
by John Cole
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Our country has become increasingly divided and our priorities skewed. America is no longer considered the greatest country in the world. We seem to have forgotten about God, country and family. Many Americans have replaced God with greed. We are no longer government of the people, by the...
Occupy Theaters
A New Political Process To Reorient Government To Serve The People
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Most Americans know their democracy has been hijacked by Big Money; that politicians are working for their rich contributors and leaving We The People in the lurch. The Tea Party knows it, and so too does the Occupy movement and both want to get out of the hole. The problem is the Tea Party wants to...
by Carl W. Dundas
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
This book is about the problems encountered frequently in the Member States of the African Union with the impact of close elections on political succession at the political party leadership level and at the level of head of state and government. Evidence can be seen with respect to the national elections...