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...