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Author William Walters , Wendy Larner
Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nation-states. Global Governmental....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Matthew Hindman
Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden po....
Release Date 2008/10 -
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government
Author John O'Leary , William D. Eggers
The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, ....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Author Laurel Ruma , Daniel Lathrop
In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Louis Hyman
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to mi....
Release Date 2011/01 -
Author Thomas J. Christensen
In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Wor....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Author Louise Marie Roth
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory prac....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Author Torsten Persson , Timothy Besley
"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Karen B. Clay , Daniel Berkowitz
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the ....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Author Thom Hartmann
Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures hypothesis, which identifies the root cau....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Author E. Gabriella Coleman
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism?....
Release Date 2012/11 -
How to Get Government Contracts: Have a Slice of the $1 Trillion Pie
Author Olessia Smotrova-Taylor
How to Get Government Contracts demystifies the process of how a company can enter the government market, win its first and subsequent contracts, and then grow itself into a multi-million-dollar government contractor within a couple of years. It offers an insider's....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author John O. McGinnis
Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the a....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Keith T. Poole , Howard Rosenthal , Nolan McCarty
How governmental failure led to the 2008 financial crisis—and what needs to be done to avoid another similar event Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"—policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilt....
Release Date 2013/05 -
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader, 2e, 2nd Edition
Author Jing Yin , Yoshitaka Miike , Molefi Kete Asante
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together th....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Environmental Politics in Egypt
Author Jeannie Sowers
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These include; industria....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Robert Wuthnow
More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educatio....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Martin Ruhs
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant wor....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Author Xuetong Yan , Daniel A. Bell , Edmund Ryden , Sun Zhe
The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influenti....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, an....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies , Th
The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of ....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Herbert Gintis
Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human beha....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, 2nd Edition
Author Nora Savage , Jeremiah Duncan , Richard Sustich , Anita Street
Nanotechnology is already having a dramatic impact on improving water quality and the second edition of Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water highlights both the challenges and the opportunities for nanotechnology to positively influence this area of environme....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Classical Humanism and the Challenge of Modernity
Author Bas van Bommel
In scholarship, classical (Renaissance) humanism is usually strictly distinguished from 'neo-humanism', which, especially in Germany, flourished at the beginning of the 19th century. While most classical humanists focused on the practical imitation of Latin styli....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Philip K. Potter , Matthew A. Baum
Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the....
Release Date 2015/04 -
British Politics For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Author Michael Pattison , Julian Knight
Your updated and revised guide to British politicsSo, you want to be knowledgeable about British politics but don't know where to start? You've come to the right place! British Politics For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding even the trickiest quest....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Author Anupama C. Raman , Pethuru Raj
The emergence of highly promising and potent technologies has enabled the transition of ordinary objects into smart artifacts-providing wider connectivity of digitized entities that can facilitate the building of connected cities. This book provides readers with a ....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Leading Across New Borders: How to Succeed as the Center Shifts
Author Karen Cvitkovich , Christie Caldwell , Ernest Gundling
An insightful, real-world look at the skills today's global leadership demandsLeading Across Borders is the leadership guide for the new business environment. The world's economic center of gravity is shifting at a rapid pace - huge emerging economies have alread....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Tracing the Roots of Globalization and Business Principles, Second Edition
Author Lawrence Beer
The book begins with a historical perspective of recorded trade. It then offers a deeper insight into the first global products, the infrastructures created to support the trade initiative and the development of financial instruments to further its growth. The....
Release Date 2015/09