This book presents a selection of federal acts including the Posse Comitatus Act; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); the Arsenal Act; the Em...

The use of committees as crucial centres of policymaking, oversight of federal agencies, and public education is an organising principle of the con...

The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress, created in Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution. The Senate has 100 members, who serve ...

The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress, created in Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution. The Senate has 100 members, who serve ...

This book is an overview of the confirmation process of political appointees. As part of the process of making an appointment to an advice and cons...

The Senior Executive Service (SES) was established by the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978. Congress created the SES to provide a government...

Israel has won its wars, or at the very least, stopped its destruction by the opposing Arab armies. However, in another war, the war of words (ie: ...

Congress’s role and operation in national politics is fundamentally shaped by the design and structure of the governing institution in the Constitu...

When the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington were hit by aeroplanes, the western world stood in shocked silence. Then came the ...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current, most critical challenges and issues facing Serbia, on its road towards integration in t...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current, most critical political, economic and social issues, and challenges facing Serbia on it...

THE SERVILE STATE has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to pro...

More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still cannot even render German ...

Civilians in Africa's conflict zones, particularly women and children, are often vulnerable to sexual violence, including rape, mutilation and sexu...

Alberta had the tightest controls on spending in Canada during the very period when the Klein government has claimed costs were soaring out of cont...

Siauw Giok Tjhan (1914-1981) was one of the most influential Chinese Indonesian political leaders active in the early decades following Indonesia’s...

This book discusses the ecology, diversity and environmental impact of Siberia. Chapter One discusses cultural interaction and mutual influence of ...

The small, underdeveloped countries of Africa, seem to harbour all the flammable elements necessary to ignite civil wars and revolutions. Since 199...

The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution--and as a revolutionary consti...

The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution--and as a revolutionary consti...

The symposium "Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom" held in Reinhause...

In this compilation, the authors evaluate the political situation in Slovakia, a young democracy with a population of over five million and with hi...

This book analyzes the characteristics and outcomes of the transition process in Slovenia, a relatively young and independent country, from differe...

The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business...

The Constitution empowers, and the Copyright Act conveys, a system of exclusive rights for authors, for the benefit of their livelihoods, the livel...

Bahrain is a longtime ally that is pivotal to maintaining Persian Gulf security. Kuwait remains pivotal to U.S. efforts to secure the Persian Gulf ...

Small farms account for 91 percent of all farms and 23 percent of agricultural production. There are large differences among small farms, however, ...

Urban geographic inquiry has for decades been biased towards a focus on larger cities and metropolitan areas, both in the developed and developing ...

This book presents a means of assessing the relative threat from terrorist-use of individual chemical, biological, and toxin agents. It focuses on ...

Smart disclosure involves providing consumers access to data in user friendly electronic formats, in order to fuel the creation of products and too...

Award-winning journalist and author Barbara McLintock uses the example of BC's capital city, Victoria, as a case study to show how a region can not...

For much of British history, kings and queens have taken oaths on the Bible as they were coronated. Symbolically,perhaps, President George Washingt...

For much of British history, kings and queens have taken oaths on the Bible as they were coronated. Symbolically perhaps, President George Washingt...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

In recent years, administrative leadership of local governments has responded to the pressures generated by financial strain, control from central ...

Beginning with the widespread use of e-mail by Congress in the mid-1990's, the development of new electronic technologies has altered the tradition...

The guiding question of this work is the following: In which way, if at all, can we define a framework that allows a comparative view on social pro...

Since its enactment in 1935, Social Security has been amended hundreds of times. Consequently, this paper is not fully comprehensive. Instead, it b...

Security provides monthly benefits to retired or disabled workers and their family members, and to the family members of deceased workers. The Soci...

Social Security, in the United States, currently refers to the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original S...

From a customer service perspective, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has set a standard for superior customer service among governmental a...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker's income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Individ...

The term social security in this report refers to programs established by statute that insure individuals against interruption or loss of earning p...

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of sociali...

In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence o...