Local Government category: 1701 books
The Poverty Industry
The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net
Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected...
Global Cities and Climate Change
The Translocal Relations of Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national boundaries. Cities are forming transnational networks to enhance their understandings and practices for climate policies. In contrast to...
by Clayton P. Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions
In Search of Urban Gargantuas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government.
Local Government, Land Use, and the First Amendment
Protecting Free Speech and Expression
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This book is an re-mastered, retooled version of the ABA publication "Protecting Free Speech and Expression: The First Amendment and Land Use Law" which was published by the ABA. The book contains some theoretical discussion of First Amendment law as it pertains to land use issues (e.g....
The Chinese State in Transition
Processes and contests in local China
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The attention of the outside world focuses inevitably on Beijing and national level politics. Nonetheless, it may actually...
Turning Texas Blue
What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America's Reddest State
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In the 2014 midterm election, Democrats in Texas did not receive even 40 percent of the statewide vote; Republicans swept the tables both in Texas and nationally. But even after two decades of democratic losses, there is a path to turn Texas blue, argues Mary Beth Rogers - if Democrats are smart enough...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Why fewer local outlets is killing the communications industry and what it means for authors.
Nonprofits and Advocacy
Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the Susan G. Komen foundation pulled funding for Planned Parenthood’s breast exam program, the public uproar brought new focus to the high political and economic stakes faced by nonprofit organizations. The missions of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, political action committees, and...
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
A Southeast Asia Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi...
Field of Reeds
Social, Economic and Political Change in Rural Egypt: in Search of Civil Society and Good Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Have you ever wondered: 1. Who built the Pyramids of Egypt and who are their descendents today? 2. Why does the author challenge the great Greek historian Herodotus, by auguring that Egypt is more a gift from the Fellahin, than a gift of the Nile? 3. What great event happened in the early 1960s that...
Toward Mainstreaming and Sustaining Community-Driven Development in Indonesia
Understanding Local Initiatives and the Transition from the National Rural Community Empowerment Program to the Village Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Indonesia has adopted community-driven development as a major strategy for poverty reduction, and replicated the approach nationwide through a number of programs. Over the past few years, the country has formulated a road map for sustaining the systems, procedures, and benefits of community-driven...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This report assesses the KALAHI-CIDSS community-driven development project in the Philippines to determine its contribution toward improved service delivery and governance in the beneficiary communities. KALAHI-CIDSS was found to be especially effective in facilitating broad-based participation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international community to live up to the challenges of a planet that is out of control. Sustainable Development Goal 11 envisages inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable...