Political Science - General

There is a broad consensus that the impact of austerity measures on people in the United Kingdom will vary from place to place. However, what is less clear is that some people in some local authorities will be hit hardest. The pace in which...

This book, titled Katzen, was written by Stephen Christopher Abiodun, who was born in December 25,1962, at Ibadan, Oyo State. He attended the primary and the secondary schools, entered the University of Ibadan in 1985 and graduated in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in...

"I Could Just Scream" addresses the frustration many people feel about how schools, politicians and the government machinery twist and turn their own agenda into something perverse and try to sell it to the American People as truth. This book is a candid, raw...

Development is stagnated, and poverty is widespread in Liberia because the Legislature is weak, corrupt and greedy, thereby pursuing self-interested agenda at the detriment of the general public. The Judiciary is also corrupt and subservient to the Executive, which dominates and controls state resources....

For decent, hardworking people everywhereAuthor: Gideon CameronISBN-10: 1496064291ISBN-13: 9781496064295Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2014Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL'A Case for the Capacity of South Sudanese to Rule Themselves' is a collection of articles from the Abyei author and poet Akol Miyen Kuol. They were written between 2004 and 2007 and cover a range of topics including tribalism, army, rule of...

This policy and the associated permit guidelines incorporate many lessons learned by the ONMS through direct experience with submarine cables in the Monterey Bay, Olympic Coast, and Stellwagen Bank national marine sanctuaries, as well as the experiences of other government agencies. In addition, the...

Dr Nicholas Beecroft, a Military and Organizational Psychiatrist, has spent 25 years exploring the worlds of Medicine, Psychiatry, Business, International Relations and the Military. In this Series, he interviews visionary leaders to discover their inspiring, positive and practical visions for the future and challenges...

The purpose of this report is to inform the MOU agencies, stakeholders, and the public about the current status and trends of wet nitrogen deposition at RMNP. The MOU agencies will use the information provided in this annual report to make a determination of...

Fagan Around is a blog about a lot of things. Sports, Politics, Food, Beer, and Travel. It has been gaining in popularity since it was founded in 2013. This book is a "best of" for the first 283 posts to the site.Author: Ryan T....

Dr Nicholas Beecroft, a Military and Organizational Psychiatrist, has spent 25 years exploring the worlds of Medicine, Psychiatry, Business, International Relations and the Military. In this Series, he interviews visionary leaders to discover their inspiring, positive and practical visions for the future and challenges...

Dr Nicholas Beecroft, a Military and Organizational Psychiatrist, has spent 25 years exploring the worlds of Medicine, Psychiatry, Business, International Relations and the Military. In this Series, he interviews visionary leaders to discover their inspiring, positive and practical visions for the future and challenges...

"Joe Public's Political Perspective" is a book of observations from a citizen and a person who does not apologize for his conservative leanings. However, the author of this book understands that one political party does not hold all the answers to critical issues facing...

The East Asian Nexus seeks to enrich the Duke Community's appreciation of the political, economic, and cultural issues facing East Asia. We publish this peer-reviewed academic journal both in print and online in the hopes of enhancing our collective discourse.Author: Tenzing ThondupISBN-10: 1494226480ISBN-13: 9781494226480Publisher:...

Keynes and Hayek never debated how much government was too much government, but that debate is needed now more than ever. As 70% of Americans believe that the Federal government is too powerful, Just Right articulates how Leftist Democracy has taken America off the...

The Security Agreement between the United States and the Government of Iraq directed that DOD was to complete the withdrawal of forces and transition the lead role for a fully diplomatic U.S. presence in Iraq to State by December 31, 2011.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10:...

Federal agencies spent more than half a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2011 through contracts to acquire goods and services in support of their missions, but have historically faced significant acquisition management challenges preventing them from getting the best return on their investments.Author: Government...

The people of the world find themselves at a time when we all face a twin path future, one pathway is obvious as it is the pathway we are treading right now. The second pathway is unrecognisable in comparison to that which we currently...

The United States and its international partners from over 40 nations have been engaged in efforts to secure, stabilize, and rebuild Afghanistan since 2001. U.S. civilians have been a vital part of the U.S. strategy. To implement the U.S. strategy, the U.S. Mission Afghanistan...

As the Department of Defense's primary mechanism to account for American's lost in past wars, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command continued to make strong advances toward fulfilling its mission during Fiscal 2010.Author: Stephen TomISBN-10: 1492267988ISBN-13: 9781492267980Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2013Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This second volume of Leslie Evans' Shaggy Man essays offers fifteen new selections. "On the Track of the Elusive Baron Long" offers the only extensive biographical sketch of one of Southern California's most fascinating characters, creator in the little industrial city of Vernon, California,...

In fiscal year 2012, BOP had a budget of about $6.6 billion for salaries and expenses and as of December 2011, BOP had a staff of about 38,000, which includes administrative, program, and support staff responsible for all of BOP's activities nationwide. BOP houses...

There are over 3,400 state and local pension systems in the United States, according to the most recent Census Bureau Survey of State and Local Public-Employee Retirement Systems. Most large plans are state plans, and more state and local employees are covered by state-administered...

Beginning with the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, Congress required the Secretary of Defense to issue guidelines requiring DOD to consider using federal employees to perform work that was currently being performed or would otherwise be performed under DOD contracts. Under...

Under State's leadership, ICASS relies on collaboration among multiple agencies both in Washington, D.C., and at overseas posts to develop and implement ICASS policies.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 149222829XISBN-13: 9781492228295Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2013Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19d

The president of the United States has always been elected with the presumption that he will be the president of all the people of the United States. Barack Obama has shown that he has been the extreme exception to that expectation. Barack Hussein Obama...

"America's Opportunities" was initially supposed to be an "Afterwards" in the book "Rock Hill", a humorous but loving story of a young boy growing up in America after World War II. However, the Author's Editor, Wife Marylil and two oldest Children Sabryna Apollo and...

Winning Now is a book for anyone who wants to know how to transform their local, city, state or federal government from being ordinary to achieving excellence. In order to do this we must first understand the political and legislative process. I believe it...

Each of us has to wake up because we have been rendered so gullible we are headed down a yellow brick path that leads nowhere. The problem isn't what the government is doing in secret, The problem is what it is doing right in...

Texas Tomorrow presents a blueprint for growing the Texas economy resulting in a higher quality of life for its citizens. It promotes innovative and creative ideas to prioritize state spending, stabilizing the state's taxing and regulatory programs, incentivizing the job creators and calls for...

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this book are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the New Patriotic Party. Ghana faces socio-economic problems that require solutions by experienced and committed leadership, not inexperienced and uncommitted leadership. This book is...

I have a story to tell you about an individual who has seen more than his share of drama. That individual is me. I have seen enough to write a book about it. And as entertaining as you may find it, it was these...

There has been strong recommendation that the BLS explore the use of hedonic methods forquality adjustment in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for decades. The Price Statistics ReviewCommittee (the Stigler Commission Report) in 1961 expressed the view that hedonic analysis would provide a "more...

In 2000, over 1.2 million households filed for personal bankruptcy, which represents more than 1percent of all U.S. households. Figure 1A shows that there has been a significant increase in the numberof bankruptcy filings over the last twenty-eight years. Filings increased steadily since 1985,...

Under the Soviet system, the Central and East European (CEE) countriesmaintained the most equal distributions of income in the world. Hence greater incomeinequality was an expected outcome of the transition from a command to a marketeconomy. Indeed, as prices were liberalized and market forces...

Some of the most fundamental questions in economics involve the boundaries of the firm. Although some firms are small and easy to categorize, others are diverse organizations with many establishments operating in different industries with different types of employees. We assemble a unique data...

The attainment of supervisory status and higher-level supervisory authority representsmovement up a career ladder. Significant types of responsibilities and decision-making authoritycan be involved with being in a supervisory role, such as setting subordinates' job tasks, evaluating their work, and having influence over their pay...

U.S. international (export and import) prices enter into the calculations of the U.S. GDP deflator and the U.S. inflation index. Over the past couple of decades, as the international sector of the U.S. economy has shot up in relative importance, concern for the correctness...

Published price indexes are nearly always constructed from individual prices collected by somesampling framework, were the samples are chosen, in part, to minimize the time and expenseinvolved in collecting the prices. In particular, the time spent by reporting firms or consumers isquite rightly treated...

Most governments keep balance of payments statistics on exports and imports, by value, andconstruct international prices indexes in order to deflate these statistics. How can intrafirm trade(IFT), trade between related parties such as multinational enterprises (MNEs), bias theconstruction of these international price indexes? Economists...

Since 1971, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been charged with the collection of international price data, which is used to compile import and export indexes.Author: Kimberly A. ClausingISBN-10: 149121130XISBN-13: 9781491211304Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2013Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x...

There has been a growing interest, both among the popular press and among researchers, in whether job stability and security have declined in recent years. The popular perception isthat jobs were less stable and less secure in the 1980s than in the 1970s and...

America is no longer the "Home of the Brave and Land of the Free." Americans are being stripped of our blood-bought rights and freedoms by greedy and incompetent politicians. Excessive taxes are reducing average citizens to government slaves. Gross mismanagement of our tax dollars...

Electricity is vital to the commerce and daily functioning of United States. The modernization of the grid to accommodate today's uses is leading to the incorporation of information processing capabilities for power system controls and operations monitoring. The "Smart Grid" is the name given...

In an April 2009 speech in Prague, President Obama pledged that his Administration would launch "a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years." To motivate world leaders to achieve this goal, the President hosted a Nuclear...

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal probably consists of approximately 90-110 nuclear warheads, although it could be larger. Islamabad is producing fissile material, adding to related production facilities, and deploying additional delivery vehicles. These steps could enable Pakistan to undertake both quantitative and qualitative improvements to its...

The United States government has a history of employing health surveillance to help limit malady, loss of life, and economic impact of diseases. Recent legislation and presidential directives have called for a robust and integrated biosurveillance capability; that is, the ability to provide early...

In January 2012, DOD issued new strategic guidance on defense budget priorities, indicating that it must rebalance its overseas force posture- including the forward stationing of Navy ships in Spain for ballistic missile defense and the reduction of the United States Army forces in...

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the "tragedy of the commons" and the "crisis of capitalism" have done little to explain this concentration of...

The concept of Comprehensive Primary Health Care focuses on health system efforts to improve equity in health care access, community empowerment, participation of marginalized groups, and actions on the social determinants of health. Despite its existence since the late 1970s very few studies have...