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A Heckuva Job
More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004 bestseller in verse, George W. Bush is still in the White House. Taking a philosophical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
In recent years the Supreme Court has been at the center of such political issues as abortion rights, the administration of police procedures, and the determination of the 2000 presidential election. The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing...
Control Freaks
7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2010
Liberals control congress and the White House. Next on the agenda: your life. If the Obama administration has one overriding objective—tying together health care “reform,” non-stop meddling in the economy, and hard-Left Supreme Court appointments—it is that big government should make decisions...
Americans at Risk
Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
This important book by one of our leading experts on disaster preparedness offers a compelling narrative about our nation’s inability to properly plan for large-scale disasters and proposes changes that can still be made to assure the safety of its citizens.
Five years after 9/11 and one...
by Matt Qvortrup
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Referendums are ubiquitous; from Brexit in the United Kingdom in 2016 to same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017 Why are referendums held at all? And when they are held, why are they won or lost? Moreover, what are the consequences of having referendums? Do they strengthen or weaken democracy? Are...
Executing Freedom
The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put...
Leadership and Change in Public Sector Organizations
Beyond Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Successful change in the public sector can be supported or hindered by political and administrative leadership, individual and group motivation, and the public’s perception of the effectiveness of public officials and government structures. But do the very characteristics of public sector organizations...
by Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable...
Bailouts
Public Money, Private Profit
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts...
by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.
Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal...
by Scott Lazenby
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Most current books on government budgeting focus on the policy process for making budget decisions. They also focus almost exclusively on the federal budget. The Human Side of Budgeting instead approaches the budget from a local government management point of view, and makes the case that traditional...
How to Reverse Recession and Remove Poverty in India
Prove Me Wrong & Win 10 Million Dollar Challenge Within 60 Days
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
There has been very few economic systems which have been tried and tested over the last two centuries at least. Socialist system had failed miserably resulting in disintegration of soviet block. Capitalistic system has survived so far but ultimately it is going to drown all the developed and the developing...
Managing Local Governments
Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme. With political considerations evident both locally and nationally, managing resources can be complex and subject to change.
This book introduces new concepts and new ways of doing business that can greatly enhance...
by Ron Graner
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
The 2016 elections are over! It no longer matters who you voted for, or against! It no longer matters if you are a Republican or a Democrat! If you are an American Worker YOU and YOUR FAMILY are in serious DANGER!!!
The people who really control America’s major political parties have now...