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Getting It Done
A Guide for Government Executives
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Getting It Done was written for those who have answered the call to public service. Now, in this 2017 edition, the editors of IBM’s Center for The Business of Government series have assembled a comprehensive guide to navigating the current environment of government, and what government leaders ought...
Deconcentration and Decentralization Reforms in Cambodia
Recommendations for an Institutional Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This study analyzes strategic and programming issues arising from the emerging deconcentration and decentralization reforms in Cambodia and informs the debate on the pace and strategic direction of these reforms. The study looks at the evolving legal and regulatory framework pointing to the gaps and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets)....
We Power Us
Green Jobs, Big Oil Subsidies, American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Old men used to sit in corner stores and discuss business, work, and politics. Women used to come together and talk about the men as they took care of the home and children, or even more recently as a part of the workforce. Today, however, politics is a shunned topic, and conversation is all but dead....
Public Management in Israel
Development, Structure, Functions and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, it is becoming apparent that the collective-oriented mission of government cannot be fulfilled by the private sector or by the non-profit organizations of civil society. This book provides an analysis of the machinery...
E-Government for Public Managers
Administering the Virtual Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the day-to-day operations of federal, state, and local government. It seeks to improve service delivery, human resource administration, political participation, education, and citizen...
Make America Great Redefined
Saving A sick Nation From Economy Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
This book is carefully written to help you understand how the American economy began in the 18th Century and the various economic policies that have helped the country in the league of industrialized nations. You will also discover the mistakes that government has committed over several decades that...
by Harold L. Wilensky
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
This prize-winning, foundational book — now in its new ebook edition featuring a 2015 Foreword by Neil Smelser — focuses on the structural and ideological roots of intelligence failures (both informational and analytical) found in government, industry, and other institutions. It provides groundbreaking...
Value Vote Ballot
the Barnes Theory of Voting
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Human society is constantly evolving, but is democracy keeping pace?
Most citizens of today’s democracies spend 12 years in public schools. Humanity is more educated now than at any time in history. Yet we still vote as though most of our citizens are illiterate.
The present ballot...
Getting It Done
A Guide for Government Executives
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Getting It Done was written for those who have answered the call to public service. Now, in this revised edition, the editors of IBM’s Center for The Business of Government series have assembled a comprehensive guide to navigating the current environment of government, and what government leaders...
by Mark Dice
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
In Big Brother, Mark Dice details actual high-tech spy gadgets, mind-reading machines, government projects, and emerging artificial intelligence systems that seem as if they came right out of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Orwell’s famous book was first published in 1949,...
Bad Time Stories
Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between...
by Charles E. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
"As an American who went about his daily responsibilities, Miller states that not until the present Marxist-socialist administration took power, presuming the citizens to be the servants of the Government, he did not take so active a role as he now plays. These essays represent his responses...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Andrew P. Napolitano in his book “The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Siezed Power By Rewritting the Supreme Law of the Land”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than...