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American Government is a 2012 textbook, now in its seventeenth edition, by the noted public administration scholar James Q. Wilson and political scientist John J. DiIulio, Jr. DiIulio is a Democrat who served as the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under president George W. Bush in 2001.
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter is a 2013 book from Stanford University Press by George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Somin argues that people are ignorant and irrational about politics and that this creates problems for democracy.
Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with representative government and universal suffrage.
What would an all-female government look like in the U.S.? Six years ago, documentary filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss brought their cameras to the Boys State camp in Texas in the ...
Youth empowerment examines six interdependent dimensions: psychological, community, organizational, economic, social and cultural. [1] [8] Psychological empowerment enhances individual's consciousness, belief in self-efficacy, awareness and knowledge of problems and solutions and of how individuals can address problems that harm their quality of life. [1]
Full Faith and Credit: The Great S & L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas (2000; ISBN 1-893122-49-2), by L. William Seidman, FDIC/RTC chairman under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (1996/2007; ISBN 978-0684810812 ) by Robert Gates ...
Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy.
Public economics (or economics of the public sector) is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity.Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve social welfare.