Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Too Critical to Fail
How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths...
The Art of Science in the Canadian Justice System
A Reflection of My Experiences as an Expert Witness
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Part autobiography, part thought piece, part references, the book takes an insightful look at the experience and cases of renowned paediatrician and forensic expert witness Dr. Charles Ferguson. The book presents the interaction of science and law as it applies, specifically, the Canadian courts,...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Political crisis is the time when critical disagreements occur in the governing of a State. Political crisis is the turning point in which necessary decisions must be made in order to move the body politic ahead.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you political crises in Nigeria.
It...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Federalism is a system in which powers are distributed between the central authority known as the Federal Government and the component units known as states or regions.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you federalism in Nigeria.
It clearly traces the origin of federal...
by Harrison Phaho
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The book largely encompasses emphasis on the human strength upon creation, evoking cognition on who in the world created what, when, ahead of whom etc. prepared in African perspective and on motivational background. It dwells significantly on the black society's landmark hesitation to propel...
Australia's Gulf War Commitment 1990-91
In the pursuit of national interests?
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1, Macquarie University, language: English, abstract: When the Australian Labor government announced the deployment of a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf on the 10th August 1990, Prime...
Democracy Betrayed
How Superdelegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An impassioned takedown of the undemocratic features of American electoral politics and their role in the 2016 election. Americans are taught to cherish our democracy, especially our right to vote. But after the 2016 presidential election, we are confronted, yet again, with the reality that our system...
Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-49
The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-49
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alliances, and in particular...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Forms of government are the different systems and structures that are adopted for administering a State.
Forms of government are the different ways in which the structures and functions of government are arranged in different States.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will...
The Political Economy of Economic Reform in the Pacific
Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This collection of studies on the political economy of Pacific island countries was authored by writers from various disciplinary backgrounds. Their research confirms the results of political economy studies of economic reform in developing countries from elsewhere around the world and shines new...
Incremental Polarization
A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters...
Controlling the Bureaucracy: Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice
Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Controls on the bureaucracy through administrative due process and presidential and congressional prerogatives are the focus of this book. The author examines these controls and assesses the trade-offs among them.
Building Better Policies
The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis...
by Colin Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
How can a capitalist system reconcile its need to combine workers on uncertain incomes and conditions with consumers confident that they can spend? The approaches of different national economies to this conundrum have had varying degrees of success, as well as diverse implications for social inequality....