Government category: 19669 books
by Jane Kirtley
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Thoughtful people disagree about the proper role of the news media. Some believe that journalists should support government and supply the public only with information the government deems appropriate.
Some believe the press instead should be the government’s watchdog, searching out and...
Justice Stephen Field's Cooperative Constitution of Liberty
Liberty in Full
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This bookexamines liberty’s Constitutional meaning through the jurisprudence of Justice Stephen Field, one of the late-Nineteenth Century’s most influential Supreme Court Justices. A Lincoln appointee who served on the Court from 1863-1897, Field articulated a view of Constitutional liberty that...
Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places
Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect...
Local Government in Early America
The Colonial Experience and Lessons from the Founders
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Local Government in Early America is a concise and thought-provoking exploration of the American desire for political participation, most notably in the 'town hall meeting.' A product of early New England democracy, this form of direct local participation remains one of the most celebrated, yet feared,...
Democracy in America?
What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. Yet the government consistently ignores the needs of its citizens, paying attention instead to donors and organized interests. Real issues are held hostage to demagoguery, partisanship...
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 Bill Clinton in his book “Back to Work, Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace...
Making Policy, Making Law
An Interbranch Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing them, and the courts applying the laws as written—as long as those laws are constitutional. Making Policy,...
by FEDweek
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
In the 2014 Federal Employees Handbook, FEDweek steps in and fills the void where the federal government and others leave off, adding to and "translating" and organizing official federal government guidance and policy to make it easier to understand and to use. As you may know, there's a lot of information...
Government by Investigation
Congress, Presidents, and the Search for Answers, 19452012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Paul C. Light examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic mistakes, and personal misconduct undertaken by the U.S. federal government between 1945 and 2012. Launched by Congress or the president, sometimes by both at the same time, the investigations...
America's 'War on Terrorism'
New Dimensions in U.S. Government and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
How has 9/11 and George W. Bush's self-declared 'war' on terror changed American government and US foreign policy? This is the central question addressed in the nine original essays in this book. Following an introduction by the editors, in which they survey issues and debates raised by America's...
Politics, Rights, Guns
The Great Political Dysfunction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In all the cascade of news reporting and comment on the tragic event in Aurora, Co., no one has observed that the Parker court (2007) concluded that we can have “registration ... for militia service if called up.” There is no contradiction of that in the Supreme Court rulings. Registration is the...
American Government
Stories of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
In the Second Edition of American Government, author Scott F. Abernathy tunes in to the voices of all Americans, showing how our diverse ideas shape the way we participate and behave, the laws we live by, and the challenges we face. From the Constitutional Convention to Ferguson, Missouri, each chapter...
Compromised
How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
If you ask most Americans what they think about the FBI, they would tell you it’s far and away the government agency they trust the most. The Bureau has, for decades, sold an image of itself as efficient, professional, unbiased, and untouchable by corruption.
That portrait is a sham.
Seamus...
The Jewish State
The Democratic Power in Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Israel The Democratic Power in Middle East Israel is a global leader in water conservation and geothermal energy. Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. Israel has embraced solar energy, its engineers are on the cutting edge of solar energy technology and its solar companies...