Books of Political Science / Political Process / Leadership
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Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office
By Adam L. WarberDesegregating the military. Interring Japanese Americans. Limiting stem-cell research. Each of these actions has been accomplished by way of executive order - bypassing the legislative process. Adam Warber offers an...
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By Robert NozickWinner of the 1975 National Book Award, this brilliant and widely acclaimed book is a powerful philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative.
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Empowering the White House: Governance Under Nixon, Ford, and Carter
By Charles Eliot Walcott, Karen Marie HultOn the surface the new president seems to inherit an empty house," Hugh Heclo, a recognized expert on American democratic institutions, has noted. "In fact, he enters an office already...
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev
By Dmitriĭ Antonovich VolkogonovFollowing his great trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the Soviet Union - Stalin (1991), Lenin (1994) and Trotsky (1996) - Dmitri Volkogonov delves deeper...
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The Presidency and the Political System, 8th Edition
By Michael NelsonWhile maintaining its perspective of the entire history of the US, this revised edition incorporates events since the previous edition: the war against and occupation of Iraq, the close 2004...
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Debating the Presidency: Conflicting Perspectives On the American Executive
By Richard EllisPresidential performance, the Electoral College, and the balance of power between Congress and the president are discussed in every presidency text. But now you can expose your students to alternate...
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OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Canada 2002: Maintaining Leadership Through Innovation
By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECDCanada, one of the OECD’s strongest economies, has a mature, effective and innovative system of regulatory governance closely linked to the government’s public policy goals. Canadians attach growing priority to...
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The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy
By Eileen McDonaghAmerican women attain more professional success than most of their counterparts around the world, but they lag surprisingly far behind in the national political arena. Women held only 15 percent...
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Tyranny: A New Interpretation
By Waller R. NewellThis is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the...
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Andrew Jackson in Context
By Matthew WarshauerFor over a century historians have been unable to agree about Andrew Jackson. Was he as Robert Remini has insisted for more than forty years a masterful politician who shaped...
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學校行政領導理論與實務
By 吳煥烘領導是任合組織成功與否的關鍵因素，向來為人所重視，作者針對重要的領導理論主題做有系統的介紹，並附有研究、實例與應用方法，它適合一般對領導學感興趣者可以做有系統閱讀與了解，所介紹的理論可應用到各行業中；另外，本書也以學校行政實務與理論相對應說明，對於從事學校教育的老師或行政人員可以做一門學科學習，或參考應用在各級學校行政領導、或班級領導中，希望能在領導時，運用各種影響力，達成彼此共享的既定目標。 本書讓你深入了解領導的理論，也能運用領導的技巧、方法和步驟於工作崗位上；除了知道領導他人，也知道如何被領導；並能時時用前瞻、研究、創新、反思、計畫、執行的態度與毅力從事領導工作，使組織在您領導下業務蒸蒸日上，績效卓著。
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The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature
By Erwin C. HargroveFew issues have clung to the presidency in recent years as tenaciously as that of moral leadership. This timely book, based on a lifetime of personal observation by an award-winning...
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Profiles in Courage for Our Time
By Caroline KennedyIn the spirit of John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage, 13 essays honoring modern-day political heroes, penned by a collection of stellar authors Nearly half a century after...
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John Tyler: A President of Many Firsts
By Jane C. WalkerThis is a concise, lively, and well-illustrated biography of the tenth president of the United States. This book reviews many of the 'firsts' associated with the life and presidency of...
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Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics
By Charles M. LambThis book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000 in the context of the American presidency and the country's segregated suburban housing market. It argues that a principal...
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Walpole in Power
By Jeremy BlackRobert Walpole was Britain's first Prime Minister and one of the great political figures of the eighteenth century. His years in power, 1721-42, saw the growth of unparalleled political stability...
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William Henry Harrison: General and President
By Mary Jane Child QueenA lone, lanky soldier sat at a hand-hewn table hunched over a note pad and a few worn books, quite oblivious of the boisterous men around him. This was often...
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The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush
By Stephen SkowronekTHIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape....
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Nero: Reality and Legend
By Brian Herbert WarmingtonNero: Reality and Legend
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Ethics and Integrity of Governance: Perspectives Across Frontiers
By Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Leo Huberts, Jeroen MaesschalckThis book provides critical, up-to-date reviews on the field of ethics and integrity of governance, along with fresh future perspectives. Focusing on Europe and the US, it addresses the key...