Government category: 19669 books
City of Rivals
Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Forty years ago the Watergate scandal deeply wounded Americans’ faith in government. Since then, good-government reformers and big-government opponents have been on a shared mission to make everything transparent. The problem is that too much light is scaring Congressmen away from making the tough...
by John McCoist
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
What turned Iraq war veteran Tim McVeigh from patriotic soldier to a man who considered his own government, Americas biggest enemy. He commited the worst home terror act in American history, which shook the nation to its core. Waco and Ruby ridge were catalysts which pushed Mcveighs conceptions that...
Aftermath
The Unintended Consequences of Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Government policies created for one set of purposes almost always generate additional results that were not part of the original plan. Very often these unintended consequences are seriously adverse, and in some cases are so severe as to render the policy a failure. In Aftermath, noted economist...
Patriot Acts
What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
WHY WE NEED THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
The noise from both Washington and the media is deafening, the deeds of our lawmakers alarming. America needs a break from the posturing and the politicking. We need information: how we got here and where we are headed. Catherine...
The Rise of the American Corporate Security State
Six Reasons to Be Afraid
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights is no more. It has been rendered pointless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the potential of indefinite detention now codified into law. Our democracy and freedoms are...
by David Silverberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Congress For Dummies helps you sort out what Congress does on a daily basis and what it all means to you, the citizen. It shows you how to get organized, make your voice heard, and influence legislation that might affect you. Full of helpful resources such as contact information for House and Senate...
The Secessionist States of America
The Blueprint for Creating a Traditional Values Country . . . Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Millions of American families from every race, creed, and economic background are losing hope as the United States continues slide deeper into fiscal insanity and moral decay. Where will America stand when we lose our traditional values, border security, and limited government?
Having gained...
The Citizen Lobbyist
A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A handbook for anyone who wants to learn about how to be active in local, state, and federal government, The Citizen Lobbyist shows how to have a voice in creating public policy. More citizen involvement is needed in our government processes to ensure the voices of the people are heard over the money...
Unbroken Government
Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
by Skye Blue
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
By what authority does your government govern you? Do they have your explicit consent? Did they ask for your permission? And why is it that our paid employees, the politicians, tell us what the rules are? Don't we own and pay for the government to exist? For hundreds of years people have explored...
by Eric Hines
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
A call to arms for all American citizens to get active and to rescue our Republic from its dangerous drift away from our founding principles of small, limited government; individual liberties; personal responsibilities. From the pamphlet:"In the era of our War of Independence, governments,...
Liberty's Nemesis
The Unchecked Expansion of the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
If there has been a unifying theme of Barack Obama’s presidency, it is the inexorable growth of the administrative state. Its expansion has followed a pattern: First, expand federal powers beyond their constitutional limits. Second, delegate those powers to agencies and away from elected politicians...
by Jeffrey Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Is Canada a dictatorship – albeit a friendly dictatorship? In this thoughtful book, Jeffrey Simpson argues that the Liberal Party’s re-election to a third majority government must raise the question: Is Canada in danger of becoming a de facto one-party state, ruled by an all-powerful leader?
An...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
In November 2008, as the economic decline was being fully realized, Canada's newly elected minority government, led by Conservative Stephen Harper, presented a highly divisive fiscal update in advance of a proposed budget. Unable to support the motion, the Liberal and New Democratic Parties, with...