Government category: 19669 books
James Madison Rules America
The Constitutional Origins of Congressional Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
James Madison Rules America examines congressional party legislative and electoral strategy in the context of our constitutional separation of powers. In a departure from recent books that have described Congress as 'the broken branch' or the 'Second Civil War,' William Connelly argues that partisanship,...
by John Henry
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
If a politician tells me its daytime, Im going to walk outside and check John Henry is an average American. He loves his family. Hes not rich or politically connected. Hes kept his nose clean, served in the military, votes and plays by the rules. He believes in this country and idolizes American heroes....
by Eldina Pleho
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Western Balkans, and specifically Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, are lagging significantly on the path to EU integration. Even twenty years after the conflict, these countries are burdened by ethnic and post conflict issues which hinder their progress on the path to EU integration.
There...
Rise, Decline and Renewal
The Democratic Party in Maine
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Rise, Decline and Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Maine Democratic Party – how it suddenly rose from irrelevance in 1954 with the election of Governor Ed Muskie, successfully challenged the ruling Republican Party over the next two decades, and initiated a creative period of wide-ranging...
One Nation, One Standard
An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups.
As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S....
Policing Immigrants
Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken...
Bad Judgment
The Myth of First Nations Equality and Judicial Independence in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
During his 33 years as a circuit judge for the Provincial Court of Alberta, John Reilly became interested in aboriginal justice and the failure of the “white” legal system to deliver justice for Aboriginal people. He recognized the harm caused to Native people by Canadian colonialism and the failure...
by Damon Root
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Should the Supreme Court defer to the will of the majority and uphold most democratically enacted laws? Or does the Constitution empower the Supreme Court to protect a broad range of individual rights from the reach of lawmakers? In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root traces the long war...
Organic Manifesto
How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now, with Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of 21st century farming. She examines the unholy...
The Jury in America
Triumph and Decline
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting...
Governor General and the Prime Ministers, The
The Making and Unmaking of Governments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State, the Governor General, in facing the challenge of dysfunctionality. Edward McWhinney clearly lays out the present powers and responsibilities of the office,...
by Philip Tether
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. This is the fourth in a series of texts on government and politics designed for students and the general reader (see author's other publications or a full list of titles). All the books interlink and cross-reference but are designed to stand alone. This fourth text continues the...
The PerformanceStat Potential
A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments...
The Conscience of the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy...