Local Government category: 1701 books
When Money Speaks
The McCutcheon Decision, Campaign Finance Laws, and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
“A brilliant discussion of campaign finance in America…a must for all who care about the American political system.” —Erwin Chemerinsky
“Thorough, dispassionate, and immensely readable.” —Floyd Abrams
On April 2, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down aggregate limits...
The Palace of Crystal
a world without war
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
War has blighted the secjurity and happiness of humanity from time immemorial, but when two hundred years ago the colonies of North America broke away from British rule and established the United States, it was seen as a hopeful promise for the peoples of the world. A new democracy had been launched...
The Wolves of Alaska
A Fact-based Saga
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that Americas Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first...
Arresting Citizenship
The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The numbers are staggering: One-third of America’s adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before has the American government maintained so vast...
At the End of the Shift
Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1996
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual...
Snob Zones
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Winner of the 2014 Bruss Silver Award and First-Time Author Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors
Towns with strict zoning...
by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The Blaine House in Augusta is one of Maine's most notable homes. In 1862, three decades after the house was built by Capt. James Hall in the early 1830s, James and Harriet Blaine moved in. The home became the setting for one of the most meteoric careers in American politics, during which James Blaine...
The Governors of New Jersey
Biographical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Rogues, aristocrats, and a future U.S. president. These and other governors are portrayed in this revised and updated edition of the classic reference work on the chief executives of New Jersey. Editors Michael J. Birkner, Donald Linky, and Peter Mickulas present new essays on the governors of the...
Breaking the Ice
From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland....
by Julio Camino
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, socialism should have passed into history, along with Marxism. Marxism is not a "science" as declared by the academics of the Communist Party in Moscow, but an enormous senseless absurdity, full of contradictions.
And...
The Europeanization of the World
On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy-at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. John Headley...
by Alex Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The fourth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. It gets to the heart of the politics of this part of the world. How is modern Africa still influenced by its colonial past? How do strong ethnic and religious identities...
Russia's Federal Relations
Putin's Reforms and Management of the Regions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The development of centre-regional relations has been at the forefront of Russian politics since the formation of the Russian state and numerous efforts have been made by the country’s subsequent rulers to create a political model that would be suitable for the effective management of its vast territory...