Government category: 19669 books
I Killed A Black Man
The Sad Reality of why Black Men Kill One Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As the federal government statisticians inform the public that violent crime is down, however, black on black crime is still high. Black men are continuing to find violent answers for their disputes, which is a no win situation where one black man goes to the cemetery and the other to prison. This...
McCarthyism
Memories of a Blacklisted Bert Corona
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Carlos Larralde has crafted a study of Bert Corona, a California Latino civil rights activist. This alone is a significant accomplishment. As the reader will undoubtedly surmise, hard copy source materials were scant. This is due primarily to the dearth of paperwork and notes available. This,...
Municipal Accountability in the American Age of Reform
The Gadfly at the Counter, 1870–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
At the foundations of our modern conception of open government are a handful of disgruntled citizens in the Progressive Era who demanded accountability from their local officials, were rebuffed, and then brought their cases to court. Drawing on newspaper accounts, angry letters to editors, local histories,...
What Would Jefferson Do?
A Return to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy. Today, 81 nations can be described as fully democratic. Yet...
The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration
Transforming, Performing, and Innovating in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Public management is context dependent, rather than generic. That may sound obvious, but in the late 1920s through the 1930s, a dominant strand of thought considered public administration to be a "single process," wherever practiced. Today by contrast, federal administration is distinguished...
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
An Independent Institute Book
Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and The Constitution
(Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
In this monograph, Professors Wagner and Tollison examine the important question of whether the United States should adopt a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget. Arguing that the government should be explicit and responsible about how much it spends and how it...
Unlikely Environmentalists
Congress and Clean Water, 1955-1972
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Environmental activism has most often been credited to grassroots protesters, but much early progress in environmental protection originated in the halls of Congress. As Paul Milazzo shows, a coterie of unlikely environmentalists placed water quality issues on the national agenda as early as the 1950s...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 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...
Nation on the Take
How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policy making, determining what elected representatives stand for and how their...
Pricing and Cost Accounting
A Handbook for Government Contractors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The essential reference to help federal contractors negotiate and maintain profitable contracts—Now in its third edition!
This is the essential reference to help federal contractors negotiate and maintain profitable contracts—and remain in compliance throughout the life of the contract.
Government...
Financial Fiasco
How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Now newly expanded, with a with a new chapter on the spreading global economic crisis, Financial Fiasco guides readers through a world of irresponsible behavior by consumers, decisionmakers in companies, government agencies, and political institutions.
by Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yet
The United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history. Polls show people on both sides of the ideological divide believe that the country has gone off track. If something...
Public Administration Reformation
Market Demand from Public Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In an attempt to instil trust in their performance, credibility, integrity, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and good governance, many public organizations are in effect viewing tax-paying citizens as consumers. Little research exists to explore synergies between the market economy, public administration...