Local Government category: 1701 books
The Brooklyn Wars
The Stories Behind the Remaking of New York's Most Celebrated Borough
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Across the globe, the word “Brooklyn” has come to represent cutting-edge cuisine, a vibrant music and literary culture, and the epitome of hip. But most of the world doesn’t see the price that local residents pay as their neighborhoods are swallowed by change.
In The Brooklyn Wars, masterful...
New Jersey 9/11 Memorials
A Photographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
New Jersey 9/11 Memorials: A Photographic Guide brings September 11 memorials and monuments from New Jersey communities large and small, together in one beautiful and informative photo book. Share the memories, history, and heart-felt tributes in this respectful photographic guide. Includes the National...
Christopher G. Moore Collected Essays
The Cultural Detective / Faking It in Bangkok / Fear and Loathing in Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Christopher G. Moore Collected Essays
The Cultural Detective
For more than twenty years, Christopher G. Moore has been writing about the history, culture and politics of Southeast Asia, in particular Thailand. The Cultural Detective is a behind-the-scene view into Moore’s writing...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
TV images and news reports of demonstrations, deaths, demands and chaos in Thailand make Moore’s essays in Fear and Loathing in Bangkok a timely book. These are essays to read at this vital crossroads in Thai political development. The essays will deepen your understanding of what makes Thailand...
How the States Shaped the Nation
American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that have had—and continue to have—sizable local...
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
As the 2008 presidential race dominates political discussion and media coverage worldwide, thousands of lesser-known local contests are being hard-fought in our neighborhoods, cities, and states. Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive...
Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South
Alabama's Hill Country, 1874–1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A challenge to the long-held view that the only important and influential politicians in post-Reconstruction Deep South states were Democrats.
In this insightful and exhaustively researched volume, Samuel L. Webb presents new evidence that, contrary to popular belief, voters in at least one...
Unintimidated
A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
“Today, we can sound like conservatives and act like conservatives—and still win elections. Those who say we can’t don’t see what I see in Wisconsin and what my fellow governors in states all across America see. We don’t need to change our principles. What we need is more courage.”
In...
Lone Star America
How Texas Can Save Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Throughout America and around the world, the United States has been known as a beacon of hope and opportunity, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sadly, from the crumbling urban ghetto of Detroit to the cash-strapped shores of California to the rust belt of the Midwest, America is not...
Becoming a Citizen Activist
Stories, Strategies & Advice for Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
From post-inauguration rallies to #NoDAPL and the Black Lives Matter movement to the global Women’s March on Washington, the people are exercising their power through protest and community organizing in a way that hasn’t been seen in years. For those looking to organize for the first time or for...
American Hometown Renewal
Policy Tools and Techniques for Small Town Officials
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town’s commercial spine and served as the linchpin for community social solidarity. Yet, during the past three decades, a series of economic downturns has left many of the great small cities barely viable. American Hometown Renewal is the...
by Dick Simpson, Betty O'Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tell you: Yes you can! And the book she recommends for candidates, campaign staff, volunteers, and citizens is Winning Elections in the 21st Century, a...
The Contract Clause
A Constitutional History
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Few provisions of the American Constitution have had such a tumultuous history as the contract clause. Prompted by efforts in a number of states to interfere with debtor-creditor relationships after the Revolution, the clause—Article I, Section 10—reads that no state shall “pass any. . . Law...
Boss Rule in South Texas
The Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Four men played leading roles in the political drama that unfolded in South Texas during the first decades of this century: James B. Wells, who ruled as boss of Cameron County and served as leading conservative spokesman of the Democratic Party in Texas; Archer (Archie) Parr, whose ruthless tactics and...