Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Bushmanders and Bullwinkles
How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
For years Mark Monmonier, "a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm" according to the Washington Post, has delighted readers with his insightful understanding of cartography as an art and technology that is both deceptive and revealing. Now he turns his focus to the story of political...
by Peter Gomez, Marco Lillo, Marco Travaglio
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Così si sceglie la nuova classe politica italiana. Prima nelle residenze del Cavaliere, poi al Parlamento europeo o negli enti locali. Tra escort, ballerine, modelle e tanta musica. Dal vivo. Uno spettacolo come in tv, quella che piace al premier. Con l’aggiunta di personaggi alla Gianpi Tarantini,...
Logged On
Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to and...
Post-Communist Romania at Twenty-Five
Linking Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The events of 1989 are widely seen as having ushered in new all-encompassing reforms in almost all areas of life. In few other places were reforms more contested and divisive than in Romania, a country that suffered...
Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program
A Short History of the U.S. Space Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Emphasizing the importance of the space programme to the scientific, social and cultural history of the last half of the 20th century, this brief history celebrates the almost unimaginable technological leap that the space programme represents, a feat of teamwork, innovation, dedication and mastery...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Online platforms have widened the availability for citizen engagement and opportunities for politicians to interact with their constituents. The increasing use of these technologies has transformed methods of governmental communication in online and offline environments. (R)evolutionizing Political...
Power, Protest and Participation
Local Elites and Development in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development. Illuminates arguments about the nature of the state as well as the development process.
Maori and Parliament
Diverse Strategies and Compromises
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Maori and Parliament provides a comprehensive and enlightening context for understanding both the historical and contemporary relationship between Maori and Parliament and highlights many of the issues which would arise in any discussion of New Zealand constitutional reform. Maori and Parliament is...
Lo Stato parallelo
La prima inchiesta sull’Eni tra politica, servizi segreti, scandali finanziari e nuove guerre. Da Mattei a Renzi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Tra le inchieste pubblicate da Chiarelettere sul potere in Italia NON POTEVA MANCARE UN LIBRO SULL’ENI.
Il suo amministratore delegato vale più del ministro degli Esteri, sul suo tavolo passano affari miliardari, alleanze internazionali, interessi geopolitici, questioni di sicurezza fondamentali....
Das Putin-Syndikat
Russland im Griff der Geheimdienstler
Language: German
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Putin gilt als der starke Mann Russlands. Aber wie weit reicht seine Macht wirklich? Margareta Mommsen beobachtet seit vielen Jahren den russischen Führungszirkel. In ihrem erhellenden Buch deckt sie auf, wie fest Putin selbst am Haken der Geheimdienstler und Oligarchen hängt. Nach dem Untergang...
by Dhurba P. Rizal
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2001
Decentralization of power and wealth from the center to the periphery is the best arts of democratic good governance. It is equally crucial for mobilizing the people of different social origins and bringing them together in the tasks of nation building on one hand, and transformation on the other.
BerlusMonti
1010-2012. Venne il diluvio universale, l'Italia affogò, ma sull'arca dei tecnici uno solo si salvò: il solito
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Da anni, con puntiglio quotidiano, Marco Travaglio ci racconta quello che succede in Italia, e quello che siamo diventati, e diventiamo giorno per giorno. In apparenza, documenta le beghe e gli scandali del Palazzo, ma in realtà parla sempre di noi: perché i nostri potenti, se non sono lo specchio...
by Marco Travaglio
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Il 23 settembre 2009 esce il primo numero del «Fatto Quotidiano», un giornale che si caratterizza subito per la sua libertà e indipendenza dai poteri forti e deboli, dai partiti vecchi e nuovi, oltre che per la sua intransigente ricerca della verità e della giustizia. È una scommessa nella quale...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their...