Government category: 19669 books
Building a Collaborative Advantage
Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Homelessness is not a historical accident. We know that it is the disastrous outcome of policy decisions made over time and at several levels of government. Yet conventional theories in political science and public administration fail to explain why some approaches have worked while others have failed.
Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The Handbook will have a substantial...
Good Government
Democracy beyond Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures...
Local Disaster Resilience
Administrative and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states – Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida – have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill. These disasters have not only been numerous but also devastating. Response to and recovery from these unprecedented...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limits -- if any -- should the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? Should religious organizations have the right to prohibit the employment of homosexuals? Should public...
by John C. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 March 31, 1850) was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. A powerful intellect, Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions. Calhoun began his political...
Nixon's Gamble
How a President’s Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that “government will listen. ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in.” But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government by signing National Security Decision Memorandum...
Imagining Interest in Political Thought
Origins of Economic Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Imagining Interest in Political Thought argues that monistic interest—or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined economies of self and public interest—constitutes the end and means of contemporary liberal government. The paradigmatic theorist of monistic interest is...
Strategic Party Government
Why Winning Trumps Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compelling reason that today’s political leaders devote...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America. Unlike other texts, Presidents and Democracy in Latin America integrates both political analysis and major theoretical perspectives with extensive country-specific...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Organs of government are the three parts of government that perform special constitutional functions in the State. This book clearly explains the structure and functions of the legislature as an organ that makes laws. It sheds light on the lawmaking process in the legislature. It analyzes the structure...
Feeling Your Pain
The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
James Bovard is no fan of Big Government in the US and under the Clinton-Gore administration. In his new book, Bovard looks at Clinton and Gore's record on such abuses and absurdities as taxes, gun control, the Waco fiasco, AmeriCorps, and federal funding of every program from those dealing with disaster...
Trust in Black America
Race, Discrimination, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal protection by their government, and the racial discrimination they have faced breaks down their trust in democracy. Rather than promoting democracy, the United...
The Risk of Social Policy?
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections.
This...