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by Philip H.J. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States: A Comparative Perspective is an intensive, comparative exploration of the role of organizational and political culture in the development of the intelligence communities of America and her long-time ally. Each national system is examined...
The Confucian Cycle
China’s Sage and America’s Decline
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to collapse and anarchy. He taught that when government officials sought personal power or wealth instead of taking care of the people, society lost the “Mandate...
The Ministry of Education Film Experiment
From Post-War Visual Education to 21st Century Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book uncovers a unique post-war film production programme and explores how this first British government intervention into ‘visual education’ is relevant to film education today. In 1943 the Ministry of Education took the decision to sponsor production of an experimental programme of nonfiction...
Israel’s Invisible Negev Bedouin
Issues of Land and Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population. In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to settlements in Siyag. The explicit...
Down on Main Street
Searching for American Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Since the Presidential election of 2008, there has been a trend of liberal-progressive Americans to distance themselves from everything that has made America the most successful experiment in government the world has ever known, and in fact to even question what conservative Americans call 'American...
The End of Whitehall?
Government by Permanent Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This Palgrave Policy Essential maps and assesses key changes in the Whitehall model over the last two decades. It argues that the traditional Whitehall model is being replaced by a system of ‘New Political Governance’ (NPG) centred on politicised campaigning; the growth of political advisory staff...
Up in Arms
How the Bundy Family Hijacked Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America’s Patriot Militia Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
“IT’S TIME! They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy Ranch.”
These words, pounded out on a laptop at Cliven Bundy’s besieged Nevada ranch on April 6, 2014, ignited a new American revolution. Across the country, a certain type of citizen...
Spending Without Taxation
FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget...
by R. A. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Planning Commission is an institution in the Government of India, which formulates India’s Five-Year Plans, among other functions. Rudimentary economic planning, deriving the sovereign authority of the state, first initiated in India in 1938 by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose when he was the Congress...
The Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution – Including Bill of Rights and Complete Amendments
The Principles on Which Our Identity as Americans Is Based (With The Federalist Papers & Inaugural Speeches of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson)
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This collection is an essential reading for all those who wish to learn about the creation of the American nation. It is comprised of the most important legal documents in early American history which are considered instrumental to its founding and philosophy: The United States Declaration of Independence,...
by Douglas B. Harris, Lonce H. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Through an examination of key historical documents, this book chronicles the Democratic Party's complete transformation from the small-government, Jeffersonian party to a party of activist government and social progressivism during the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton,...
by Alan R. Shark
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
At last, here is a textbook that covers the field of technology and public management in an informative and engaging style. Ever since the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration required greater infusion of technology into the curriculum, faculty and administrators have...
by Michael McCord
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
“With colorful characters so ludicrous they could only be real, McCord’s satire of profit, politics and capital punishment should be required reading.” – Clarion Review
A satire in the tradition of Swift, Voltaire, Heller and Marx (Groucho, that is)
The Birth of Real America...is...
Lone Star Politics
Tradition and Transformation in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
In Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday government. Explore the state's rich political tradition with Lone Star Politics as this local author team explains who gets what and how.
Utilizing the comparative method, Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, and Julie Harrelson-Stephens...