Free Download Anna McCarthy, "The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America"
English | 2010 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1595584986, 1479881341 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.

Free Download Governing the Internet: The Emergence of an International Regime By Marcus F. Franda
2001 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 1555879993 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume explores the many complex issues and challenges that confront governments, technocrats, business people and others as they try to create and implement rules for a truly global interoperable Internet.

Free Download J. Theodore Anagnoson, "Governing California in the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 039367536X | 2019 | 308 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The most current look at California politics, complete with an award-winning adaptive learning tool

Free Download Rolf Lidskog, "Governing the Air: The Dynamics of Science, Policy, and Citizen Interaction "
English | ISBN: 0262016508 | 2011 | 368 pages | EPUB | 887 KB
Experts offer theoretical and empirical analyses that view the regulation of transboundary air pollution as a dynamic process.

Free Download Professor of Public Management Sandford F Borins, "Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives (Hc) "
English | ISBN: 1617354910 | 2011 | 306 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editor: Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing Fables turns to narratology, the interdisciplinary study of narrative, for a conceptual framework that is applied to a set of narratives engaging life within public organizations, focusing on works produced during the last twenty-five years in the US and UK. The genres discussed include British government narratives inspired by and reacting to Yes Minister, British appeasement narratives, American political narratives, the Cuban Missile Crisis narrative, jury decision-making narratives, and heroic teacher narratives. In each genre lessons are presented regarding both effective management and essential narrative skills. Governing Fables is intended for public management and political science scholars and practitioners interested in leadership and management, as well as readers drawn to the political subject matter and to the genre of political films, novels, and television series.

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by Tobias Hagmann, Finn Stepputat
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197746217 | 312 Pages | True ePUB | 3.45 MB

Free Download Wan-chen Yen, "Governing Sex, Building the Nation: The Politics of Prostitution in Postcolonial Taiwan 1945-1979"
English | ISBN: 1443872385 | 2015 | 290 pages | PDF | 962 KB
Governing Sex, Building the Nation explores the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan between 1945 and 1979, focusing on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in the reproduction of postcolonial nationhood. This book examines the political struggle over prostitution policy that was framed within and through contested knowledge, rationales and tactics underpinning the nationalist project, constructing and policing prostitution as a social/national problem, yet also creating a market for prostitution and turning it into political opportunities that served a variety of nationalistic interests. Locating this in the larger Asian struggle with colonial influence on prostitution, the author provides interesting and rare accounts of official perspectives and tactics regarding prostitution in the Taiwanese context, in order to explore the interlinkages between post/colonialism, prostitution and nationalism. Featuring insights into Japanese and Chinese colonialism and the Eastern Asian experience of postcolonialism, this book shifts academic attention from mainstream postcolonial studies, which highlight Western colonialism and Indian and African postcolonialism. It thereby discovers more diverse approaches to postcolonial nation-building and a more intricate interaction between colonial powers and the colonised society, and, as such, adds new depth to postcolonial studies. Bringing the politics of nationalism and postcolonialism into the study of prostitution policies, this book also provides an understanding of prostitution in a once-colonised society in contrast to the broadly recognised gender and sexual politics of prostitution in the Western context.

Free Download A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems: From Governance Failure to Failure Governance by Peeter Selg , Georg Sootla , Benjamin Klasche
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 392 Pages | ISBN : 3031240332 | 10.7 MB
The book initiates a relational turn in policy making and governance by developing further relational political analysis and by taking relational thinking to bear on not just analytic/descriptive issues, but also to normative/prescriptive issues. The need for such a turn, this book argues, comes from the ever-increasing relevance of addressing the so-called wicked problems of governance like climate change, COVID-19 kinds of pandemics, global economic recessions and refugee crises. The book argues for a need to rethink governance as a process from the relational point of view to spur its potential for addressing these problems. What needs to be rethought is not so much the specific tools or resources of governance, but the very issue of whether governance should be seen in terms of tools and resources in the first place. This book contributes to this discussion by consolidating the relational approaches to governance thus far and by taking them to a next - normative/prescriptive - level.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031435516 | 174 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book presents an analysis tracing the operation of biopolitical mode of power in the global field of drug control. Through a series of theoretically framed investigations that relate current drug control policies to the broader frame of 'vital politics,' it attends to the relationship of drug control, democracy and authoritarianism and showcases these pressures on the case of the evolution of drug policy in the Czech Republic. Then, it turns attention to the relationship of power and knowledge, with a particular focus on 'evidence-based' policy that tends to more often sustain, rather than challenge coercive and punitive drug control policies. Last but not least, it looks at how the global drug control dispositif shapes those lives on one of Europe's (internal) periphery, the Spanish Southern border. These investigations are intended to illuminate elements of the operation of the drug control dispositif and its far reaching (bio-)political effects in order to maintain and expand the space for thinking political alternatives.

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English | 2008 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 1843923084 | PDF | 6,2 mb
Governing through Globalised Crime provides an analysis of the impact of globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system. It explores how the perceived increased risk in global security has resulted in a reformulation of the relationship between crime and governance.