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Author : Steven Greenhut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015060083956
An exploration of eminent domain looks at the concept of "public use," the injustice and unfairness inherent in the definition when it is based on tax revenue, and the people who are fighting back to preserve their property rights.
Author : Ian Brodie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773553781
"Canada's prime minister is a dictator." "The Sun King of Canadian government." "More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country." These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada's leader – especially when the prime minister's party holds a majority government in Parliament. But is there any truth to these arguments? At the Centre of Government not only presents a comprehensively researched work on the structure of political power in Canada but also offers a first-hand view of the inner workings of the Canadian federal government. Ian Brodie – former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada – argues that the various workings of the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council Office, the cabinet, parliamentary committees, and the role of backbench members of Parliament undermine propositions that the prime minister has evolved into the role of an autocrat, with unchecked control over the levers of political power. He corrects the dominant thinking that Canadian prime ministers hold power without limits over their party, caucus, cabinet, Parliament, the public service, and the policy agenda. Citing examples from his time in government and from Canadian political history he argues that in Canada's evolving political system, with its roots in the pre-Confederation era, there are effective checks on executive power, and that the golden age of Parliament and the backbencher is likely now. Drawing on a vast body of work on governance and the role of the executive branch of government, At the Centre of Government is a fact-based primer on the workings of Canadian government and sobering second thoughts about many proposals for reform.
Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106015432419
Originally published in 1981, Control and Power in Central-Local Government Relationships rapidly established itself as a classic in the study of local government. Its 'power-dependence' model of central-local government relations underpinned the vast growth in the study of policy networks in British government. This reprint adds four chapters to the original book including two specially written; a preface commenting on each chapter and an essay on where we are now in the study of networks.
Author : Johan Soderberg,Maxigas
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262372015
How hacking cultures drive contemporary capitalism and the future of innovation. In Resistance to the Current, Johan Söderberg and Maxigas examine four historical case studies of hacker movements and their roles in shaping the twenty-first-century’s network society. Based on decades of field work and analysis, this intervention into current debates situates an exploding variety of hacking practices within the contradictions of capitalism. Depoliticized accounts of computing cultures and collaborative production miss their core driver, write Söderberg and Maxigas: the articulation of critique and its recuperation into innovations. Drawing on accounts of building, developing, and running community wireless networks, 3D printers, hackerspaces, and chat protocols, the authors develop a theoretical framework of critique and recuperation to examine how hackers—who have long held a reputation for being underground rebels—transform their outputs from communal, underground experiments to commercial products that benefit the state and capital. This framework allows a dialectical understanding of contemporary social conflicts around technology and innovation. Hackers’ critiques of contemporary norms spur innovation, while recuperation turns these innovations into commodified products and services. Recuperation threatens the autonomy of hacker collectives, harnessing their outputs for the benefit of a capitalist system. With significant practical implications, this sophisticated multidisciplinary account of technology-oriented movements that seek to challenge capitalism will appeal to science and technology readers interested in innovation studies, user studies, cultural studies, and media and communications.
Author : David Rothkopf
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780143183976
The rise of the corporate supercitizen and the consequences for society Only about thirty countries possess the powers usually associated with sovereign nations. The rest can’t actually defend their borders, govern their finances independently, or meet the basic needs of their people. In this provocative and persuasive new book, David Rothkopf calls these others semistates and argues that they’re much less powerful than hundreds of corporate supercitizens. A multitude of facts demonstrates the reach of the modern corporation. Walmart has revenues greater than the GDP of all but twenty-five nations. The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, controls $3.3 trillion, almost as much as the currency reserves held by China and Japan combined. Corporations in Third World countries routinely hire mercenary armies to enforce their will, and in some cases (such as Shell in Nigeria), they control the politicians as well. Striking a balance between public and private power has become the defining challenge for all societies. In Power, Inc., Rothkopf argues that the decline of the state is irreversible. The way forward is to harness corporate resources in the service of individual nations to forge a radically new relationship between the individual and the institutions that govern our lives.
Author : Paul ''t Hart,J. Uhr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230306431
How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical evidence from comparative political research.
Author : Sir Oswald Mosely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:gb56003044
Author : Jaideep Prabhu
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782834854
For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand and take an active role in all sorts of areas of life? Or is that just meddlesome and wasteful? Those questions might have made sense in the previous century. Now, with revolutions in technology and organisational structure, and a world transformed by Covid-19, a revolution is also coming in the essential business of government - whether we like it or not. Join organisations expert Jaideep Prabhu on a tour of what's possible in government. Discover amazing initiatives in unexpected places, from India's programme to give a digital identity to a billion citizens, to a Dutch programme that lets nurses operate almost entirely without management. Or perhaps China's ominous Social Credit system is a more accurate vision what the future has in store for us. Whether you are on the political left or right, it matters whether your government does what it does fairly and well. And the game is changing...
Author : Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher : Kansas City [Kan.] : Sheed Andrews and McMeel
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005073930
Author : Geoff Mulgan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141902487
How can we make the governments on which we depend for our welfare and survival behave like servants rather than masters? This is the oldest question in politics. It has been grappled with, but never satisfactorily answered, for thousands of years. In much of the world states remain oppressive, secretive and violent. It is no surprise that so much recent political theory has been concerned with how to protect people from dangerous states. Yet the only things as bad as states that are too strong are states that are too weak. The old democracies of western Europe and north America have achieved a rough balance between being too strong and too weak, yet still suffer from constant crises of moral purpose. There is a growing trend of anti-politics, manifest in falling turnouts and party membership, and an assumption that politicians represent the worst venality rather than the highest ideals. Something has gone badly wrong in our relationship with power. This book explains why we have arrived at this point, what can be done to change the world, and how the power of governments can be used for good.
Author : Mark Kuhlberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781442666214
For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada’s natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case of the Ontario pulp and paper industry to challenge that interpretation of Canadian provincial politics. Examining the relationship between the corporations which ran the province’s pulp and paper mills and the politicians at Queen’s Park, Kuhlberg concludes that the Ontario government frequently rebuffed the demands of the industrialists who wanted to tap Ontario’s spruce timber and hydro-electric potential. A sophisticated empirical challenge to the orthodox literature on this issue, In the Power of the Government will be essential reading for historians and political scientists interested in the history of Canadian industrial development.
Author : Daniel DiSalvo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199990740
"Daniel DiSalvo contends that the power of public sector unions is too often inimical to the public interest"--
Author : Paul Tucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691196305
Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.
Author : Kris Deschouwer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134136407
This volume is a unique exploration of European political parties making the move towards government for the first time.
Author : Oswald Mosley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:230184987
