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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level. Presenting case studies for countries with federal systems of government, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India, as well as those focusing on states with hybrid systems...
Congress vs. the Bureaucracy
Muzzling Agency Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people’s favor. Take, for instance, the U.S. Forest Service and its still-popular Smokey Bear campaign. The agency early...
Building Better Policies
The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis...
Democratic Government and Politics
Third Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
Completely revised and enlarged edition (1951) of a book which has become a standard work on comparative government. This edition brings up to date the material on institutions and practices of government in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and analyses more fully the relationship of democratic institutions and practices to the essentials of the democratic creed.
The Failure Factory
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book,...
Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
The Elusive Quest for Efficiency in Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over...
A Broken Sausage Grinder
Is Our Government Fundamentally Flawed?
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
THIS POLITICAL GUIDE HELPS US UNDERSTAND WHY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DESIGNED AS IT IS AND HOW IT CAN BE FIXED. Everybody proclaims disgust with the political system, yet the system continues to get more disgusting. Is the hard-nosed partisanship in politics today the result of a flaw in the design...
Public Management Reform and Innovation
Research, Theory, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced,
treatment of public management reform and innovation available.
The subject of reform in the public sector is not new;
indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics.
Still, as the contributors...
Party Politics in Japan
Political Chaos and Stalemate in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The Japanese political system is a parliamentary democracy and was the first western style government in Asia when the parliamentary system was adopted in the 1880s. It has a multiparty system, free elections, and a parliament that functions much the same way that any other democratic parliament functions,...
Revealing the Wickedness of the American Government
Organized Stalking, Electronic Harassment, and Human Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
"How a nation starts out will be how that nation will end!"
America has heard this statement all throughout history, and yet she still has not taken heed to the warnings of God. She has started out as a wicked nation, so her end will be pure destruction. God has warned America for...
by Dennis L. Dresang
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The long-awaited new edition of this highly praised text includes full coverage of policy issues and professional practice in nonprofit organizations, as well as at federal, state, and local levels of government. Retaining its accessible writing style, this sixth edition:
examines the latest...
Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam, 2020 Edition
Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and access to free online bonus content.
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by Barrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990.
John Major’s period...
by Louis Asare
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
The American government spends billions and trillions of dollars annually to import goods and services. The important and striking information that touched my emotions is that over eighty five thousand companies have closed their manufacturing plants and moved their production to other parts of the...