Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by Yanzhong Huang
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including...
The New and Changing Transatlanticism
Politics and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The European Union and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with potentially enormous economic gains for both partners. Experts from the European Union and the US explore not only the groundwork laid for TTIP under the "New Transatlanticism,"...
by Jean-Louis Bianco
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
La laïcité est au centre du débat public. On l’invoque sans cesse mais sait-on vraiment ce que c’est ? A-t-on par exemple le droit d’exprimer ses convictions, y compris quand elles sont religieuses, dans l’espace public, dans la rue, sur les places... ou sur les plages ? Dans la République,...
by Charles Albouy, Patrice Cornille
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Les régions, départements et communes contractent depuis toujours des ventes, acquisitions et locations immobilières de toute nature avec les administrés : depuis toujours aussi ces derniers peuvent leur consentir des donations ou legs de terrains ou de bâtiments. Ce n’est cependant qu’à...
Audacity
How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.
Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse,...
Tear Down This Myth
How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded...
by Nicholas deB Katzenbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
A lively, intimate memoir that vividly recalls the idealism of the Kennedy administration.
As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement,...
by Elaine C. Kamarck
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Failure should not be an option in the presidency, but for too long it has been the norm.
From the botched attempt to rescue the U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iran in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter and the missed intelligence on Al Qaeda before 9-11 under George W. Bush to, most recently,...
Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy
New Challenges for Society and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? What different forms of interactions between and negotiations of religion and religious beliefs can we see in contemporary society? What are the primary contenders in these interactions...
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...
LA VIE DES UNS, LE MÉPRIS DES AUTRES
La vérité réussit toujours à rattraper le mensonge, pourvu quon sy acharne
Language: French
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Cest un cri d'alarme, un hurlement de désolation et dindignation à la vue dune plaie vive qui suinte sur le Québec depuis 30 ans sans que personne nose lexaminer et la soigner. La plupart des Québécois ne savent pas vraiment à qui ils ont à faire en matière de gouvernement et des instances publiques...
On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice
Noam Chomskys Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically...
by Steven A. Ludsin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
The book describes the venal behavior of federal employees determined to stop a government contractor from making a million dollar commission by selling distressed government assets held by the US Small Business Administration and committing "econocide" against the entrepreneur.