Government category: 19669 books
The Biology of Government
A Primer for Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The premise of this book is that the role of government is to look to the well-being of the people and to maintain and improve the quality of the environment. In other words, government is animal husbandry and ecosystem management – it is applied biology. Following this line the author examines the...
by Jim Limber Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
There is no true accountability in government when the idea of violence is rejected completely. When we who are beneath self proclaimed republican forms of government, with ballot boxes, vote out those who rained debt and death upon our lives, are they who were replaced actually being held accountable?
Absolutely...
by Richard Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In this important book, Richard Davis looks at the issue of ‘responsibility’ in public services – on both the government’s part and that of the users. While government wrestles with how to cut the cost of services, Davis shows that government can provide responsible, sustainable and effective...
by Joshua Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Governments around the world are clamouring to engage the private sector in order to build infrastructure and deliver public services. However, the role of the state in managing new relationships with companies is often murky. Is the government a slow and wasteful bureaucracy that must be held at bay...
Congress
Protecting Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
When asked which branch of government protects citizens’ rights, we tend to think of the Supreme Court—stepping in to defend gay rights, for example, in the recent same-sex marriage case. But as constitutional scholar Louis Fisher reveals in his new book, this would be a mistake—and not just...
Accounting for Ministers
Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945–2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Accounting for Ministers uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. Utilising agency theory, it describes Cabinet government as a system of incentives for prime ministerial and parliamentary rule. The authors use a unique dataset...
by Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
In this book Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle break through the unproductive American debate over competing religious rights. They present an original theory that makes the secular character of the American government, rather than a set of individual rights, the centerpiece of religious liberty in the United...
The Politics of Information
Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
How does the government decide what’s a problem and what isn’t? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the “paradox of search.” If policy makers don’t look for problems, they won’t find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry...
Troubled Waters
Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of...
An Education
How an outsider became an insider - and learned what really goes on in Irish government
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
'Fascinating' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
'It's a fascinating book. I ended up reading it till about four in the morning. It gives an incredible insight.' Shane Coleman, political editor, Newstalk
'Excellent' Sam Smyth, Irish Mail on Sunday
'A great read and I'd recommend it' Hugh Linehan, Irish Times
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Local government can be defined as a public entity acting as the sub-unit of a state or of a region, charged with the task of enforcing public policies. There have been many reforms of local government in recent years from the grassroots-led movement that took root in the 90’s to the overarching effects...
by Michael Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
As an American citizen, the biggest question you must ask yourself isn't what political party or side of an issue you favor. It is does the majority of American citizens rule or does the representative government rule? If you think the representative government rules then you actually chose the donor...
by James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
American political scientists do not need to be told that James Bryce's work is one of the most important ever written on the principles and practice of democratic government. More than a century has passed since his masterly description and appreciation of the American Commonwealth put him at the...
by James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
American political scientists do not need to be told that James Bryce's work is one of the most important ever written on the principles and practice of democratic government. More than a century has passed since his masterly description and appreciation of the American Commonwealth put him at the...