Government category: 19669 books
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Government offices take a long time in adopting new technologies. Many offices had not yet started using even typewriters when personal computers became available. The development of Urdu software took still more time. In recent years, more and more Local Governments are using Internet and email...
Transitions to Democracy
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
As demonstrated by current events in Tunisia and Egypt, oppressive regimes are rarely immune to their citizens’ desire for democratic government. Of course, desire is always tempered by reality; therefore how democratic demands are made manifest is a critical source of study for both political scientists...
Advancing Democracy Abroad
Why We Should and How We Can
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
After eight years of President Bush's trumpeting the virtues of promoting freedom and democracy abroad but achieving limited results, many Americans have grown suspicious of democratic development as a goal of American foreign policy. As a new administration reviews the role democratization will play...
The Swing Vote
The Untapped Power of Independents
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America...
by Jack Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The surprising truth behind Barack Obama's decision to continue many of his predecessor's counterterrorism policies.
Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in...
The Right-Wing Threat to Democracy
The Undoing of America's Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
p>For over thirty years, World War II veteran and author Burt Hall assessed accountability in government and national security. Now, this seasoned, professional analyst delivers a tough account of what went wrong in our politics and system of government over the past two decades and what we can...
by Philip Hamburger
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal conduct. Administrative power has thus become pervasively intrusive. But is this power constitutional?
A similar sort of power was once...
by Lisa McGirr
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and...
The First Modern Clash over Federal Power
Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of America’s preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wilson against Charles Evan Hughes emerges as a clear template for the partisan differences of the modern era. The 1916 election dramatically enacted the...
The U.S. House of Representatives
Fundamentals of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As with Selecting a President and The U.S. Senate, this book is written for all audiences, but voiced toward high school seniors and college freshmen-or...
A Return to Common Sense
Seven Bold Ways to Revitalize Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
"Waldman's book is a call to arms, which everyone who cares about our democratic system should read, absorb, debate, and then use as a signpost for change."
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
"With Thomas Paine's gift for brilliant brevity, Michael Waldman tells us exactly what's wrong with...
Local Politics and National Policy
Multi-level Conflicts in Japan and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, changes...
by Jerry Crouso
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
It’s getting harder to separate truth from fiction in the age of fake news. But sometimes the wildest conspiracies are true. Like these insane conspiracy theories that are quite real.,Operation Snow White,The Gulf of Tonkin Incident,Operation Gladio,The Nayirah Testimony,Operation Paperclip,Black...
The American Political Pattern
Stability and Change, 1932-2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern....