Local Government category: 1701 books
The Judicial Branch of the Federal Government
Purpose, Process, and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The system of courts in the United States serves to enforce the laws of the nation as well as act as a check to make sure the other branches of government obey the powers set forth by the Constitution. Through a series of landmark court cases, chronicled in this book with an explanation of their lasting...
California Comeback
How A "Failed State" Became a Model for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown.
In the most economically important state in the country—and the 7th largest economy in the world—a political revolution of historic importance has...
Reclaiming Gotham
Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End Americas Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape—and what it portends for our cities in the future
In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de...
by Alfred Mbati
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
The Diplomatic Lifestyle Journal offers content whose primary goal is to give the reader an insight as to how to live like a Diplomat while positioning themselves amongst the top 1% in the Social, Political and Economic spheres of the world’s population.
Living life can sometimes...
by Mark Dice
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
In Big Brother, Mark Dice details actual high-tech spy gadgets, mind-reading machines, government projects, and emerging artificial intelligence systems that seem as if they came right out of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Orwell’s famous book was first published in 1949,...
by Jane Kirtley
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Thoughtful people disagree about the proper role of the news media. Some believe that journalists should support government and supply the public only with information the government deems appropriate.
Some believe the press instead should be the government’s watchdog, searching out and...
Compromised
How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
If you ask most Americans what they think about the FBI, they would tell you it’s far and away the government agency they trust the most. The Bureau has, for decades, sold an image of itself as efficient, professional, unbiased, and untouchable by corruption.
That portrait is a sham.
Seamus...
The Jewish State
The Democratic Power in Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Israel The Democratic Power in Middle East Israel is a global leader in water conservation and geothermal energy. Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. Israel has embraced solar energy, its engineers are on the cutting edge of solar energy technology and its solar companies...
by Isaiah Hawke
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In a world where animals have been raised to self-awareness and live, work and pay taxes right beside humans, Jack finds himself growing more dissatisfied each day. With growing detachment he finds that common sense is dead, replaced with blind allegiance, willful ignorance...
by Michael Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Survey of Organizational Excellence is revolutionizing the operation of Texas state agencies and other governmental and private organizations. Developed and refined over the last twenty years by a team of researchers led by Michael Lauderdale, the survey is a proven tool for improving the effectiveness...
Implementing Term Limits
The Case of the Michigan Legislature
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group U.S. Term Limits promotes this reform at all levels of government. But are advocates correct that term limits ensure citizens dedicated to the common...
Conservative Hurricane
How Jeb Bush Remade Florida
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Against the backdrop of the Tea Party–dominated GOP, former Florida governor Jeb Bush may appear comparatively moderate, but his record tells a different story. In Conservative Hurricane, Matthew Corrigan probes beyond the mild veneer, the sound bites, and the photo ops to examine the real evidence...
Virginia Government
Institutions and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Equally at home as a companion to an introductory text or as a stand-alone resource, Virginia Government offers an excellent introduction to the political institutions, actors, and policy processes of the Old Dominion State. Paying special attention to the governing arrangements that make Virginia...
Government Accountability
Australian Administrative Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The second edition of Government Accountability: Australian Administrative Law offers an accessible and practical introduction to administrative law in Australia. The text introduces the legal principles that regulate the exercise of power by public authorities and explains the legal mechanisms that...