Local Government category: 1701 books
These Estimable Courts
Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In These Estimable Courts, Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates explore how citizens feel about the government institutions at the front lines of jurisprudential policy-making in America - our nation's state and local courts. The book's central focus concerns a primary question of governance: why do people...
California Politics
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The thoroughly revised Fifth Edition of California Politics: A Primer concisely explains how California’s history, political culture, rules, and institutions come together to shape politics today and how they will determine the state of affairs tomorrow. Author Renee B. Van Vechten begins with...
Small Town and Village in Bavaria
The Passing of a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,000,...
House by House, Block by Block
The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how...
Leviathan
The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"—and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.
Climbing the Hill
How to Build a Career in Politics and Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Inspiring, nonpartisan insider's advice on how anyone can build a career in local, state, and national government, from two rising stars in Washington government and policy.
This inspiring, nonpartisan guide, written by longtime staff members of Republican and Democratic house leadership teams...
Zouping Revisited
Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor force. One possible explanation, examined in...
Lone Star Politics
Tradition and Transformation in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
In Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday government. Explore the state's rich political tradition with Lone Star Politics as this local author team explains who gets what and how.
Utilizing the comparative method, Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, and Julie Harrelson-Stephens...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The newspapers, magazines, radio, television – collectively called paper and electronic media – are the only means for the Local Governments to inform the people about their functions to solve most of their local problems. On its side, the media may also be interested in what is being...
State Legislatures Today
Politics under the Domes
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A concise and provocative introduction to State Legislative Politics, State Legislatures Today is designed as a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics. The book examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context,...
Doomsday Book
Economic, social and political stories from 2012, a year of austerity in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The 2008 financial crash continues to ravage Britain’s economy and push millions into austerity while many more faced a cost of living crisis. These were only some of the events that started a new year in Britain and as the bad news continued into the year, the demise of the retail sector; thousands...
A Deal With the Devil
The Green Party in Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Green Party struck its “deal with the devil” by entering coalition with Fianna Fáil in 2007.
The junior partner secured control of the Environment and Energy ministries, irritating some in the larger party with its pursuit of a ban on stag hunting, the introduction of civil partnerships...
The Risk of Regional Governance
Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of governance...
Utah Politics and Government
American Democracy among a Unique Electorate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
As unique as is Utah’s formative history of civil and religious conflict, its political institutions today broadly resemble those found in other American states. While its majority Mormon population translates into an enormous Republican advantage in local and national elections, Utahns have taken...