Texas Almanace, 1986-1987
In its more than 200-year history, the office of the President of the United States has undergone a variety of dramatic changes. Because the founding fathers left the privileges and responsibilities of the job constitutionally vague and ill-defined, each occupant of the office - from George Washington to Bill Clinton - has tried to set the limits of presidential power as he has seen fit based on the domestic and international circumstances of the day as well as on his own ambition and abilities....
The autobiography of a legendary Ohio politician and legislator "The politics that Vern describes-when candidates depended on shaking hands, speaking at every conceivable dinner, passing out literature at the county fair (or fairs, if you were running statewide), and when office-holders worked across the political aisle to get things done for their constituents-belong to a bygone era. This book is an extraordinary window on more than thirty years of Ohio political history and a celebration of a...
In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson's extensive research into the development of Texas's oldest city. Beginning with San Antonio's formation more than three hundred years ago, Johnson lays out the factors that drove the largely uneven and unplanned distribution of resources and amenities and analyzes the demographics that transformed the city from a frontier settlement into a diverse and complex modern metropolis. Fol...
State and Community Governments in the Federal System
by Charles Press and Kenneth Verburg
The captivating, colorful, and controversial history of South Carolina continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state's history, accomplished historians Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole trace the importance of race relations, historical memory, and cultural life in the progress of the Palmetto State from its colonial inception to the present day. In the discussion of contemporary South Carolina that makes up the majority of this volume, the author...
Democratic Sustainability in a New Era of Localism
by Dr John Stanton
Piolt Studies for a New Penang
Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented at the Penang Outlook Forum 2009, held on 1-2 June 2009 at the E&O Hotel in Penang. A few others have been added to complement those at the conference. At present, comprehensive and authoritative studies on Penang's current economic conditions are a rarity. This book is thus an effort to correct that lack. Evidence does suggest that the state had not been doing well in the first half of the first decade of the new millennium. Being a small...
Hidden History of Tennessee Politics
by James B Jones, Jr. and James B Jones
An overview of political activity in the nation's forty-second state. Contemporary Washington politicians are dealing with pandemic problems: taxes, industrial development, schools, welfare, highways, labor relations, agricultural depression.
New Mexico and Arizona joined the Union in 1912, despite the opposition from some of their residents. The Fiscal Case against Statehood examines the concerns of the people who lost the battle over statehood in the two territories. Moussalli examines their territorial and early state governments' fiscal behavior and reveals that while their fears of steep increases in the cost of government were well-founded, statehood also significantly improved their governments' accountability for their use o...
The essays address the cultural politics of our global present. They offer a contribution towards keeping the spirit of utopia alive by practicing it, promoting that the struggle for liberation may continue in an era whose landscape is not inhabited by the presence of great utopian constructs. The collection adapts the idea of utopia to the intercultural present using it as a metanarrative projected towards the future and rooted in local experiences and actions. The book presents an interdiscipl...
The Transformation of Plantation Politics (SUNY series in African American Studies)
by Sharon D. Wright Austin
Zukunft Entwickeln (Salzburger Interdisziplinaere Diskurse, #8) (Salzburger Interdisziplinare Diskurse, #8)
Die 15. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen, die Sudwind Salzburg in Kooperation mit der Universitat Salzburg durchfuhrte, nahmen das "Europaische Jahr fur Entwicklung" (2015) zum Anlass, die Herausforderung "Entwicklung" aufzugreifen und einer interdisziplinaren Analyse zu unterziehen. Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter entwicklungspolitischer Organisationen und Initiativen, der Universitat Salzburg sowie weiterer wissenschaftlicher Einrichtungen, die bei den Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschul...
Neue Chancen Fuer Kommune Und Region (Stadt Und Region ALS Handlungsfeld, #11)
Entstaatlichung, Finanzkrise und demographischer Wandel werden in Politik, Verwaltung und Wissenschaft heute intensiv diskutiert. Resignative Toene sind allgegenwartig. Wo aber sind Chancen zu erkennen? Es geht um Verantwortung in einer neuen Zivilgesellschaft! Hier gewinnt der "Dritte Sektor", das Steuerungselement neben Staat und Markt, an Bedeutung: nicht macht- und nicht gewinnorientiert. Von historischen Reflexionen am Beispiel einer mittelalterlichen Stadt uber den Umgang mit alltaglicher...
Hawai'i Politics and Government (Politics & Governments of the American States)
by Richard C. Pratt and Zachary A. Smith
Hawai'i is in many ways the most unique of the American states. Distinguished by its unusual beauty, ethnic diversity, and lingering image as a paradise, Hawai'i is special for other important, but less apparent, reasons. It is the only American state to have evolved from a kingdom, the only state with no jurisdictions below the level of county, the only state in which Caucasians have never been in the majority, and the only state whose historic identity and contemporary relationships are as muc...
During the 1980s fifty-seven of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors from twenty-six of the state's eighty-two counties were charged with corruption. The FBI's ploy to catch the criminals was code-named Operation Pretense. Ingenious undercover investigation exposed the supervisors' wide-scaled subterfuge in purchasing goods and services. Because supervisors themselves controlled and monitored the purchasing system, they could supply sham documentation and spurious invoices. Operation Pretense w...