Local Government category: 1701 books
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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...
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...
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...
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...
by Paul E. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs.
"City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It...
Flak-Catchers
One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Flak-Catchers explores the ways in which riot commissions-the institutional bodies appointed by an executive in the aftermath of a race riot to determine a riot timeline, investigate causes, and offer prescriptions for change-have dealt with racial violence in the United States over the last century....
Obamacare Wars
Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia’s attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, the ACA rolled out, in infamously bumpy fashion, and rolled on, fought and defended at every turn—despite President Obama’s claim, in 2014, that...
by Gene W. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Answers for Chaos! aptly identifies and spotlights 95 huge, politically-driven problems the USA and world are facing but are not addressing at all! Then in but seven pages, titled "The Quick and Easy Solution!," the reader is presented an easy technological method of rapidly influencing...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Political scientist V. O. Key in 1949 described North Carolina as a "progressive plutocracy." He argued that in the areas of industrial development, public education, and race relations, North Carolina appeared progressive when compared to other southern states. Reconsidering Key's evaluation...
The Creative Destruction of New York City
Engineering the City for the Elite
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's...
Marijuana
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From Reefer Madness to legal purchase at the corner store.
With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short...
Legalized It!
Inside Colorado and Washington State’s Historic Votes to End Marijuana Prohibition, and Other Tales of Adventure from a Fully-Embedded High Times Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
In Legalized It!, David Bienenstock, author of The Official High Times Pot Smoker’s Handbook (Chronicle Books), takes you to the frontlines of the War on Marijuana for an insider’s look at two states that just voted to end cannabis prohibition. ...
The Vermont Manifesto
The Second Vermont Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Not unlike other states, Vermonts quality of life, political independence, and sustainability are threatened by Corporate America, the U.S. government, the war on terrorism, homeland security, American imperialism, and globalization. This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul to return to its...
by Hillel Levine, Lawrence Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon (128,000 words, 19 illustrations)
Written by a sociologist and a journalist, The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions recounts the death of a Boston community...