Includes timelines, maps, suggested further readings, and an index.

This book examines the key role played by local governments in China's market-oriented economic reform process since 1978. In particular, it addres...

Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, in part, to provide enhanced investigative tools and to assist in t...

Alberta's politics are changing in response to powerful economic, social and political forces. The contributors focus on developments since the ele...

Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, the federal government entered a new phase -- the rise of the administrative state. Among the forc...

A bid protest is a formal, written objection to an agency's solicitation for bids or offers, cancellation of a solicitation, or award or proposed a...

It is Berger's theory that the United States Supreme Court has embarked on "a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the guise of interpret...

This book discusses the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 as the administration begins its implementation. Th...

Emergency management seems more and more in the foreground in recent years as disaster after disaster strikes or threatens and seems to be met with...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under the Antideficiency Act, they must cease operatio...

When federal agencies and programs lack funding after the expiration of full-year or interim appropriations, the agencies and programs experience a...

When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under the Antideficiency Act, they must cease operatio...

From the beginning of the American federal government, Congress has required executive branch agencies to release or otherwise make available gover...

The First Amendment provides that 'Congress shall make no law... Bridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...'. The First Amendment applies, ...

Grace Coolidge was considered the perfect balance to her husband, Calvin Coolidge, renowned for his shy, cautious and restrained nature (nicknamed ...

This book is an exploration not only of the lessons that Abraham Lincoln, America's sixteenth president, drew from the founders of the United State...

Greece is at a critical juncture of its recent history. The economic policies of the last three decades have brought it close to bankruptcy. Much o...

Growth of the American Revolution covers the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concor...

Growth of the American Revolution covers the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concor...

Since the 1980s, Guatemala, the most populous country in Central America with a population just over 14 million, has continued its transition from ...

Since the 1980s, Guatemala, the most populous country in Central America with a population just over 14 million, has continued its transition from ...

Congressional hearings are the principal formal method by which committees collect and analyse information in the early stages of policy making. Wh...

This book explores the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the primary investigative agency of the federal government, which has the authority...

The economic and political roles of towns in the Nordic late Middle Ages -- with Lübeck as the major hub in an extensive network -- have long been ...

The first international biography of Niels Bukh (1880-1950), the charismatic founder of the special Danish school of modern gymnastics. His team of...

This book analyses the remarkably close relationship between the British and Norwegian Labour parties and two of their leaders, Haakon Lie and Deni...

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, Haiti has struggled to over...

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, Haiti has struggled to over...

This book examines Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist military and socio-political movement that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States, ...

This book provides people who want to work systemically with a set of practical tools. It is above all a reference book full of specific and helpfu...

This monumental handbook is dedicated to the sources of super-optimising, including: Thomas Saaty on multi-criteria decision-aiding software, Lawre...

Handbook of Win-Win Policy Analysis, Volume 2 - A Win-Win or Super-Optimum Society

This monumental handbook is dedicated to the sources of super-optimising, including: Thomas Saaty on multi-criteria decision-aiding software, Lawre...

Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States, was thrust into office on April 12th, 1945. His path to the presidency did not follow a st...

The subject of this book is health research methods in general, including literature review medthods and qualitative and quantitative methods. Illu...

Congressional hearings are the principal formal method by which committees collect and analyse information in the early stages of policy making. Wh...

"Helpless Imperialists" enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety ...

The Spending Review examines how the Coalition Government will carry out Britain's unavoidable deficit reduction plan. This is an urgent priority t...

The study is focused on empowering the people in order to cultivate, nurture, and consolidate democratisation and good governance processes in Afri...

The study is focused on empowering the people in order to cultivate, nurture, and consolidate democratisation and good governance processes in Afri...

In the beginning of the 1990s, Denmark was developing along a 'basic income path'. At that time the hegemonic growth discourse was in crisis. Its l...

In the wake of the summer of 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and an armed domestic confrontation between Hezbollah and rival Lebanese groups ...