Local Government category: 1701 books
Greening Local Government
Legal Strategies for Promoting Sustainability, Efficiency, and Fiscal Savings
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This volume is a compilation of essays and research related to the rapidly changing dynamics of emerging government-focused sustainability efforts at the state and local levels. Specifically, the book explores the level of experimentation taking place by governments in their quest to become more "green."...
by Stephanie Snape, Pat Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The theme of this collection of essays is partnerships between health and local government. Such partnerships are not new. Nor is discussion of the merits (or otherwise) of collaboration between the two sectors. The history of collaboration between these two sectors of the public services has been...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Earlier, the local institutions and offices had a system of inspections, audits, inquiries, etc., to improve efficiency and facilities. It seldom worked. Now the people’s representatives provide an effective external check through the monitoring system to improve the situation.
The monitoring...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The book gives a comprehensive plan for eradication of poverty in Pakistan. (With necessary modifications, it can work also in other poor countries.) It offers answers to all questions:
How will lifetime occupancy of housing and buildings replace ownership? How will the new system generate regular...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The Handbook will have a substantial...
Driving Efficiency in Local Government Using a Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Framework
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
The overall functions of a government impact a wide range of sectors in society. It is imperative for governments to work at full capacity and potential in order to ensure quality progress for its citizens. Driving Efficiency in Local Government Using a Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Framework:...
Local Governments in Multilevel Governance
The Administrative Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Local governments serve their communities in many diversified ways as they increasingly engage in multiple connections: international, regional, regional-local, with nongovernmental organizations and through external nongovernmental services county actors. The book discusses how the shift in emphasis...
Local Politics and National Policy
Multi-level Conflicts in Japan and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, changes...
Policing Immigrants
Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken...
Centrifugal Empire
Central–Local Relations in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even...
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...
by Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Policy Research Report Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? brings analytical rigor to a field that has been the subject of intense debate and advocacy, and billions of dollars in development aid. It briefly reviews the history of participatory development and argues that its two modalities,...
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...
Tools for Decision Making
A Practical Guide for Local Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Known for encouraging step-by-step problem solving and for connecting techniques to real-world scenarios, David Ammons’ Tools for Decision Making covers a wide range of local government practices—from the foundational to the advanced. Brief and readable, each chapter opens with a problem in a...