Government category: 19669 books
Buyer, Regulator, and Enabler: The Government's Role in Ecosystem Services Markets
International Lessons Learned for Payments for Ecological Services in the People’s Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This paper was originally produced for the "International Conference on Payments for Environmental Services," held in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China on 6-7 September 2009, and jointly hosted by the People's Republic of China's National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry...
by David R. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
*Governors and the Progressive Movement *is the first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors. It explores the personalities, ideas, and activities of this period’s...
by Claire Craig
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This Palgrave Policy Essential draws together recent developments in the field of science in government, policy and public debate. Practice and academic insights from a wide variety of fields have both moved on in the last decade and this book provides a consolidated survey of the relatively well...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Government policy refers primarily to the actions planned and implemented by the executive branch of a state to meet its society’s needs. One of the most demanding areas both for policy makers and in terms of people’s expectations is health, which social analysts and historians place among the...
Fear, Power, and Politics
The Recipe for War in Iraq after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The book explores the dynamic and dysfunctional relationships between the executive and legislative branches of government and the news media after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Their collective behavior led to the Iraq war in March 2003. The proper functioning of those two branches of government...
by Keith L. Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
Rather than focusing on why the states did not contribute to the national government under the Articles of Confederation, Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation asks why they, in fact, did - even when they should not have been expected to contribute. Why did states pay large portions...
by Angus Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The wrong people are making law!
Everyone knows this is a problem, but no one is working on a solution. I remember a time when we could simply elect a new government to make change. Not so much today. There is overwhelming evidence that humanity is stampeding into unsustainability and taking a large...
Local Governments in Multilevel Governance
The Administrative Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Local governments serve their communities in many diversified ways as they increasingly engage in multiple connections: international, regional, regional-local, with nongovernmental organizations and through external nongovernmental services county actors. The book discusses how the shift in emphasis...
Apartheid In Canada
The Highway to Frenchifucation and Separation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
On 4 Nov 2015, Justin Trudeau was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada. His agenda does not seem to vary from that of his father Pierre Trudeau, another self admitted Communist sympathizer. Pierre was previously sworn in to office on 20 April, 1968.
Justin Trudeau into office as PM? ...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
One of the bloodiest conflicts ever to take place on American soil, the Civil War pitted brother against brother as North and South fought to secure their futures. Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s 1881 memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a history of the Confederate...
by Larry Catá Backer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This book is about ideology in the contemporary world. Ideology serves as the foundation that makes it possible for a political community to develop principles through which it can organize itself by reference to a core baseline against which to understand the world around. This book is also more...
Corruption and Corruption Control
Democracy in the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Corruption in politics and public administration is pervasive and difficult to eliminate. It has a strong effect on public attitudes toward government and is at the same time badly understood. A clear, comprehensive understanding of corruption is critical to the goal of ethical government that is...
Aspects of Empire
A New Corona Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The British Empire was the most powerful empire known to the modern world, but power and confidence were ebbing by the mid-20th century. Aspects of Empire, a second anthology of writings from the Corona Club journal, shows the British Parliament, Government, the Colonial Office and leading actors...
Family of Secrets
The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments."-Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon and Partners in Power
How did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps...