Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by Janice Van Cleve
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
No matter how you look at it, the United States is in trouble. Endless foreign wars, staggering national debt, disintegrating social safety net, illegal immigration, drugs, corporate crimes, outsourcing, and on and on. Whether you are conservative or liberal, whether you are a tea bagger or an intellectual,...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The creator of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe was quite politically active and that activism even resulted with his arrest, placement in a pillory and imprisoning. This collection represents his political activism and mirrors the true political climate in 18 th century England. His most successful...
Decolonizing Africa and African Development
The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara’s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba’s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa’s underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the...
The Case Against School Choice: Politics, Markets and Fools
Politics, Markets and Fools
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
"Compelling arguments, supported by both anecdotal and empirical evidence to convince readers that school choice does nothing to improve the quality of education. ... Solidly researched and written, Smith's and Meier's effort should sway those still undecided on the issue". -- Publishers Weekly
Party Systems in Latin America
Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Based on contributions from leading scholars, this study generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems. It also contributes richly to major theoretical and comparative debates about the effects of party systems on democratic politics, and about why some party systems...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
This is a reproduction of a June 2011 Congressional report on the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious, using a strategy called gunwalking which allowed suspects to "walk away" with illegally purchased guns. The report claims that the program facilitated deaths and violence,...
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...
Tackling Wicked Government Problems
A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they increasingly face? Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders draws on...
by Lynn Bosetti, Dianne Gereluk
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles that underpin the...
Obamacare Simplified
Your Go-To Guide for Understanding Obamacare
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
ObamaCare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has become law in the United States and has lead to a major reform of the healthcare industry. Although the law has received wide media coverage, the majority of our citizens still do not understand the basic tenets of the law.
This...
Reconstructing a Fragile State
Institutional Strengthening of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development in Solomon Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Emerging from the ethnic tensions that tore the Solomon Islands apart from 1998 to 2003, the country's Ministry of Infrastructure Development faced a number of serious challenges. Given the vast needs in the Solomon Islands, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development was called upon to take a leading...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Using a growth accounting framework, this paper estimates the key inputs required by the Timor-Leste economy to narrow its income gap with the upper middle- income economies by 2030. This paper also presents estimates of the required accumulation of human and physical capital and improvements in productivity....
by Julio Camino
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
If you think that you know what happen with the economic political chaos of the Century 21th, this new book of Julio Camino is certainly not for you. But if, on the contrary, you have doubts, questions and concerns, rather than elaborated opinions, or if you are not very sure about them, this book is...
Fiscal Decentralization in Asia
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This publication discusses the decentralization issues faced by countries of Asia and the Pacific. It includes practical suggestions on how to proceed in this area to achieve economic growth, macroeconomic stability, poverty and income distribution, services delivery improvements, and political accountability....