Local Government category: 1701 books
Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide...
Citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro
Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
What happens to the citizen when states and nations come into being? How do the different ways in which states and nations exist define relations between individuals, groups, and the government? Are all citizens equal in their rights and duties in the newly established polity? Addressing these key...
by Hopeton S. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This multi-authored volume is one of the first books to present scholarly research on the liberating opportunities offered by information and communications technologies in the Caribbean and the global south. While acknowledging challenges of policy implementation and technology adaptation, the book...
The Democratic Imperative
the reality of power relationships in the nation state
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Democracy understood as people power, which is the only proper definition of the word, is put forward in this book as the panacea for resolving the most pressing issues of our time. Butr democracy as a practicable system hinges on many conditions wich are seldom appreciated by our world leaders, international...
Exchange Politics
Opposing Obamacare in Battleground States
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contained a threat that any state refusing to set up a health insurance exchange would lose control to the federal government. Republicans had supported the concept before it became part of Obamacare, and so virtually every state was expected to cooperate and implement...
Spies in Congress
Inside the Democrats' Covered-Up Cyber Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
When Imran Awan, an IT aide for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was arrested by the FBI as he tried to fly away to Pakistan, the media didn’t know what to make of the story. Was this just a bank fraud case or something more? Why was this team of congressional IT administrators paid...
by Pamela M. Feely, CPA, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This book is for Colorado candidates and their managers. The book covers everything from establishing a bank account to winding down the operation.
The first in a series of state campaign finance guides aimed at candidates at all levels of government. A Candidate's Guide to Campaign Finance...
Government Contract Law
The Deskbook for Procurement Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This fourth edition of the ABA's revisions to the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School's Contract Law Deskbook, includes updates to references, new chapters (which do not appear in the JAG School's version) as well as chapter revisions that include material that is useful to contractor...
Land Use Regulation
A Legal Analysis and Practical Application of Land Use Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Written by specialists in the field, Land Use Regulation provides real estate specialists, general practitioners, and planning officials with a convenient and practical resource for handling typical land use problems. It is written from the perspective of the administrative process that most often...
Hold Texas, Hold the Nation
Victory or Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Texas is booming. In recent years, the Lone Star State has experienced some of the most rapid growth in the country, both in its economy and in its population. This is thanks to an influx of businesses relocating to Texas to take advantage of all its benefits. But this increase in population has also...
The Senate and the People of Canada
A Counterintuitive Approach to Reform of the Senate of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Senate of Canada is the upper house of its parliamentary system. It is an appointed legislative chamber that has been frequently derided for its apparent lack of effective activity, its failure to represent Canada’s federal system, and the perceived lack of accountability among its members....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
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, focusing on Russian federalism and elections, followed by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics,...
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and how they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts—W....
The Reluctant Republican
My Fight for the Moderate Majority
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Barbara Olschner believes in her party’s founding principles: lower taxes, less regulation, limited government, and individual accountability. But she also believes in governing through compromise, in respectfully listening to opponents’ viewpoints, and in the possibility that a Republican can...