Authors:Ole Borre,  Elinor Scarbrough,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: government, beliefs, scope
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1998-12-03
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 0198294743
ISBN-13: 9780198294740

This book sheds new light on the idea of a crisis of "ungovernability." By examining the expanding scope of government in the post-War period, and drawing on a vast data set stretching back over the last two decades and right across Europe, the book reveals public attitudes towards the range and extant of government activity.

Author: Ann-Marie Kishel
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
Keywords: government, nonfiction, services, first
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0822564033
ISBN-13: 9780822564034

Author: Arend Lijphart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: government, readings, politics, oxford, parliamentary, presidential, versus
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1992-04-02
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0198780443
ISBN-13: 9780198780441

Parliamentary and presidential governments--exemplified by most European countries for the former and the United States and Latin America for the latter--are the two principal forms of democracy in the modern world. Their respective advantages and disadvantages have been long debated, at first mainly by British and American political observers but with increasing frequency in other parts of the world, especially in Latin America, but also in Western and Eastern Europe and Asia. The recent world-wide wave of democratization has intensified both the debate and its significance. This volume bring

Author: Ann-Marie Kishel
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
Keywords: government, nonfiction, first
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0822563991
ISBN-13: 9780822563990

Author: Beth Simone Noveck
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: government, citizens, powerful, stronger, democracy, technology, wiki
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815702752
ISBN-13: 9780815702757

Wiki Government shows how to bring innovation to government. In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, it offers a fundamental rethinking of democracy in the digital age. Collaborative democracy-government of the people, by the people, for the people-is an old dream. Today, Wiki Government shows how technology can make that dream a reality. In this thought-provoking book, Beth Simone Noveck illustrates how collaborative democracy strengthens public decisionmaking by connecting the power of the many to the work of the few. Equally important, she provides a

Author: John Locke
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Keywords: government, detected, followers, overthrown, extent, civil, filmer, sir, false, former, principles, foundation, treatises, robert
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2006-03-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1584776021
ISBN-13: 9781584776024

Locke, John [1632-1704]. Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Later is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1698. [6], 358 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-602-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-602-1. Cloth. $85.* Reprint of the third edition. "[Locke] has two purposes in view: to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch, as it had been put for

Author: U.S. Government
Publisher: Progressive Management
Keywords: government, methanol, incentives, grants, rom, ringbound, ethanol, biodiesel, encyclopedia, biofuels, bioenergy, energy, crops, century
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 2006-10-13
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1422008207
ISBN-13: 9781422008201

This unique book and set of two CD-ROMs combines our ring-bound biofuel book and and an outstanding collection of documents (with over 51,000 pages) on two discs. Together, they present a completely revised collection of important documents, reports, and publications from the federal government about research and promotion of biofuels, including biomass, biodiesel, biopower, ethanol and methanol, hydrogen, methane, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, plant materials, and much more. There is extensive material from the databanks of every relevant federal agency Federal documents cover research and devel