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  • Provincial Public Finance in Ontario

    An Empirical Analysis of the Last Twenty-five Years

    by David Foot ...
    Series series Heritage
    This detailed and informative study makes a timely contribution to a subject that has been the focus of much public discussion and debate in Ontario and elsewhere, namely the size and growth of the public sector. Working with the Public Accounts and other sources, Professor Foot offers both an historical account of, and an explanation for, the growth of provincial revenues and expenditures since ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Boss

    Richard J. Daley of Chicago

    by Mike Royko ...
    “The best book ever written about an American city, by the best journalist of his time.”— Jimmy BreslinIn the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city’s Democratic Party machine.Mike Royko’s scathing and meticulously researched account follows Richard J. Daley’s rise to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • To Be Mayor of New York

    Ethnic Politics in the City

    Series series Columbia History of Urban Life
    From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines.Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • My Story

    Tom L. Johnson

    Edited by Elizabeth J. Hauser ...
    In cooperation with The Western Reserve Historical SocietyProduced shortly before his death in 1911 and long since out of print, provides a rare personal insight into the career and philosophy of one of the most prominent figures of the American progressive Era. Influenced by the single tax proposals of Henry George, Johnson gave up a prosperous business career to become a reform politician. He ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing The Field

    Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them

    “Details how owners . . . have shamelessly played cities against one another to get sweetheart deals for their stadiums.” —Sports IllustratedCan a sports franchise “blackmail” a city into getting what it wants—a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms—by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At the End of the Shift

    Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario

    Edited by Matt Bray, Ashley Thomson ...
    Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario’s northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual confernce of Northern Ontario research and development held in 1990. The papers are grouped into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Policy in an International Context

    Prospects for Environmental Change

    This volume examines the environmental issues currently under debate in the international arena. The text approaches the topic at a conceptual level, and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. It analyses the roles of key players in environmental policy, the nation state, non-governmental organizations and the business community. It continues with an examination of the importance of international ... Read more

    $133.99 USD

  • The Assembly: A Tool for Transforming Communities

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Donald Anderson highlights the necessity in the fight against poverty to first and foremost organize communities and let them decide their courses of action for themselves rather than designing and imposing programs from outside of the community. He ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Decline of Representative Democracy

    Process, Participation, and Power in State Legislatures

    Based on a leading scholar′s firsthand observations of legislatures as well as extensive interviews with legislators, legislative staff, and lobbyists, this important work describes and analyzes the contemporary state of legislatures and the legislative process in the fifty states. It explores the principal elements of legislatures, including the processes by which legislation is enacted, the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Happy Warrior

    Political Memoirs

    Originally published in 1988, this revised and expanded edition of Donald C. MacDonald’s acclaimed memoirs provides an inside look at provincial politics in Ontario through the eyes of a party leader. Dubbed "the Happy Warrior" by Tommy Douglas, MacDonald led the Ontario CCF/NDP for seventeen years, and continued to sit in the Legislature for twelve years after stepping down as party leader. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Does Canada Matter?

    Liberalism and the Illusion of Sovereignty

    by Clarence Bolt ...
    In this lucid yet impassioned book Clarence Bolt reveals how Canada is rapidly losing its sovereign status to the liberal, globalizing drive that has, since Confederation, endeavoured to eliminate regional diversity, self-reliance and distinctiveness by blending our regions into a centralized economic and political system. Echoing George Grant, Bolt proposes that Canada can remain a unique, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • O século

    by Betty Milan ...
    O que foi o século XX? Para responder a essa questão, a autora vale-se da entrevista. Dez são os temas do livro: a cidade, a guerra, a terra, o desterro, a vida, as mulheres, o sexo, a língua, a arte, a comunicação. E dez os entrevistados, selecionados entre os maiores especialistas europeus nessas temáticas.Assim, o urbanista Paul Virilio faz ver a deterioração das grandes cidades do planeta. O ... Read more

    $5.55 USD

  • A Caring Jurisprudence

    Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court

    In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the CourtOs deference toward the Ouniversal,O Oimpartial,O and OreasonedO knowledge of ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Toward an Ethic of Citizenship

    Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century

    The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of this abuse not only made me rather angry, but, since I had been called for jury duty the year before, gave me ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Manhattan Cocktail

    In the spirit of Robert Benchley, with the updated slant of humorists such as Dave Barry, Lewis Burke Frumkes brings us Manhattan Cocktails. In this delirious collection, Frumkes parodies normalcy through mild-mannered satire, bizarre concepts, and sly sophistication.Manhattan Cocktail intoxicates us, blending vintage Americana with modern mania. Frumkes puts a spin on our lives, adding a twist to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Initiative and Referendum in California, 1898-1998

    This book provides a detailed analytic history of direct legislation—the initiative and referendum—in California from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day. California was one of the first states to implement mechanisms for direct legislation, and these mechanisms have been used with growing frequency as the entire process has become professionalized (from signature ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Third House

    Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States

    The book, which has drawn praise for its inviting and accessible style, thoroughly examines the lobbying scene: the settings in which lobbying takes place, the types and styles of lobbyists, the broad range of approaches and techniques used by lobbyists, and the role and influence of lobbying in our system of representative democracy. A favorite among professors and students alike, The Third House ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta

    Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "a city too busy to hate." But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta race relations, he discusses the impact of race on the physical and institutional development of the city from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Tar Heel Politics 2000

    by Paul Luebke ...
    Offering an insightful analysis of North Carolina political trends and personalities, Paul Luebke moves beyond the usual labels of Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal. In Tar Heel Politics 2000, he argues that North Carolina's real political battle is between two factions of the state's political and economic elite: modernizers and traditionalists. Modernizers draw their strength ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Citizens’ Hall

    Making Local Democracy Work

    by Andre Carrel ...
    Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy–for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of political power, and the best tool for citizen empowerment is the controversial tool of the referendum.This ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • African American Legislators in the American States

    by Kerry Haynie ...
    Series series Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
    Has black inclusion in the political process changed political institutions and led to more black influence in the governmental process? How do African American legislators balance racial interests with broader issues of government? And how is their effectiveness subjectively perceived and objectively evaluated?In one of the first book-length studies to analyze the behavior of African American ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Rise of the States

    Evolution of American State Government

    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    A noted historian explores the development of U.S. State governments from the end of the 19th century to the so-called renaissance of States in the 20th.It is a common misperception that America’s state governments were lethargic backwaters before suddenly stirring to life in the 1980s. In The Rise of the States, Jon C. Teaford presents a very different picture. Teaford shows how state governments ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rebirth of Urban Democracy

    In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion. Yet nothing is more crucial to the future of American democracy than to develop some way of spurring greater citizen participation. In this important book, Jeffrey Berry, Ken Portney, and Ken Thompson examine cities that have created systems of neighborhood government ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Cities, Politics, and Policy

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by John P. Pelissero ...
    Just because Milwaukee isn′t Manhattan, doesn′t mean that those urban centers face completely unique challenges. Through effective comparative analysis of key issues in urban studies--how city managers share power with mayors, how spending policies affect economic development, and how school politics impact education policy--students can clearly see how scholars discern patterns and formulate ... Read more

    $77.99 USD