Government category: 19669 books
by The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker, III
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
On March 15, 2006, members from both parties in Congress supported the creation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to review the situation on the ground and propose strategies for the way forward. For more than eight months, the Study Group met with military officers, regional experts, academics,...
The Negotiator
Freeing Gilad Schalit from Hamas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
THE NEGOTIATOR is the only behind-the-scenes account of the negotiations to release abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. This new work is the remarkable story of Gershon Baskin, who acted on his own initiative to create a secret back channel between Hamas and the Israeli government to secure a...
Take Up Your Pen
Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government—yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation...
Declaring Independence
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest...
Deputy Ministers in Canada
Comparative and Jurisdictional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Collectively, provincial deputy ministers command the largest assembly of government budgets, employees, and influence in Canada, but despite their importance, they have not been the subject of systematic study until now. This unique volume, which deals with a uniquely significant topic, reviews the...
Unreal City
Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a...
International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization
Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government...
Good Governance for Digital Policies: How to Get the Most Out of ICT
The Case of Spain's Plan Avanza
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Plan Avanza, Spain’s national Information Society strategy, has created a strong momentum for furthering information society (IS) policy in Spain, mobilising close to EUR 9 billion over four years from national, sub-national and non‐governmental stakeholders.
But what have these important...
Reforms at Risk
What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted....
Categorically Incorrect
Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through which our policies should be discerned, dissected, and amended.
Borovoy...
The Danger of Progressive Liberalism
How America Is Threatened by Excessive Government, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Entitlement, and the Failures of Both Political Parties
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The United States is under assault by the progressive attitudes and actions of the liberal Left. At this critical time in our history, it is imperative that conservatives stand united against this assault. The majority of Americans are not progressive liberals, so why should we have to live with progressive...
The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
A Pocket Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
How often have people claimed that a certain thing was "in the Constitution" and you've wanted to pull out a copy to show them what this incredible document really says?
This is the book you want to keep with you at all times: the full text of the Declaration of Independence and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find information on the constituent units of the Russian Federation.
The introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, followed by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics, and a review of the Federal Government.
The...