Government category: 19669 books
E-Governance and Social Inclusion
Concepts and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
The application of e-government technologies has led to increased public participation and social inclusion, while allowing for greater government transparency. These technologies provide accessibility to online content and services while offering the public an active voice in governmental issues. E-Governance...
Bad Trip
How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, right? It failed. Not only does the drug war fail to keep Americans from using drugs, but its crackdown tactics also produce bigger problems than it promises to solve. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows that drug prohibition...
The Great Game of Politics
Why We Elect, Whom We Elect
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From our nation's inception there has been a constant dynamic of tension between those political philosophies that we have labeled the left and the right, despite the fact that the vast majority of American voters really fall into the category of moderates. During the early years, the shifts between...
by Matthew McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Left is a world of do-gooders and no matter what the cause, from global warming to saving the salamanders, they have one thing in common. They need a massive, kick-ass, centralized government to accomplish their do-gooder goals. Those on the Right generally want to be left alone and embrace personal...
Hostile Takeover
Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
“Hostile Takeover is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how individual freedom can prevail in a world of decentralized information. Matt Kibbe and this book provide us all with a roadmap on how to take back our lives, liberties, and responsibilities. ”
—Glenn Beck
Matt...
The United States Federal Government, All Things to All People
Or Why Your Taxes Were Fifteen Percent and Why They are Going to be Fifty Percent
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 2012, the National Debt was $16,066,241,407,385. That isn't money owed by the Federal Government. The Nation owns the Federal Government. The Nation is liable for the National Debt. And what is a nation? A couple of beaches, some trees and a mountain range? It's...
Reclaiming Gotham
Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End Americas Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape—and what it portends for our cities in the future
In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
Fool Me Twice
Fighting the Assault on Science in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than...
by Philip K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”
What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.
Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive....
by Frederick Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Most citizens are well aware that the world is run rather badly by those in power – the politicians – who are in many cases democratically elected. Time and time again democracy fails to protect the ordinary citizen and exhibits dangerous and damaging flaws. Yet, it is often held up as the model...
by Alfred Mbati
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
The Diplomatic Lifestyle Journal offers content whose primary goal is to give the reader an insight as to how to live like a Diplomat while positioning themselves amongst the top 1% in the Social, Political and Economic spheres of the world’s population.
Living life can sometimes...
by Steve Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Hi, I'm Steve Hutchins. I am the author of "The Personal Responsibility Amendment." I wrote the book, because my vision of America is a place where the economy is booming. A place that is based on self-sufficiency, free market, private property ownership, and citizens working their jobs, lands...
Illegal Immigration
The Consequence of Misplaced Trust
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:
THE CONSEQUENCE OF MISPLACED TRUST
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A Laymans Close, Hard Look at
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Have you ever asked yourself some of these questions?
Why has our government failed in its duty to protect our border...