Local government law Books
The University of Chicago Press State Constitutional Politics Governing by
Book SynopsisGiven that amending the US Constitution has become all but impossible, the real battleground these days is the states, and Dinan outlines how that process works and how groups have been using it.
£29.45
The University of Chicago Press Everyday Law on the Street
Book SynopsisToronto prides itself on being the world's most diverse city, and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. The author brings to light the often unexpected ways that the development and implementation of policies shape everyday urban life.
£26.60
Little Brown and Company Walk the Blue Line
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£22.50
Little Brown and Company Walk the Blue Line
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£24.00
Princeton University Press Government Matters
Book SynopsisShows what the Badger State did and how it was done. Wisconsin's welfare reform was the most radical in the country, and it began far earlier than that in most other states. It was the achievement of legislators and administrators who were unusually high-minded and effective by national standards.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration "The rich detail provided by the author and his investigation into the provision of administrative services make this a useful addition to the literature on welfare reform, state politics, and public policy."--Choice "Government Matters offers an important, in-depth analysis of the government institutions that developed and implemented Wisconsin's welfare reform program. The book will be most attractive to academic audiences, as well as practitioners and researchers who have an interest in administrative structures in general and in Wisconsin's welfare reform efforts in particular."--Susan T. Gooden and Kasey J. Martin, Public Administration Review "Lawrence Mead's new book is ... an especially welcome addition to the literature on contemporary welfare policy... Government Matters provides a valuable portrait of the political and administrative dimensions of putting policy into practice over time. It is an important book that raises vitally important questions about the contemporary American welfare state, governance, and the meaning of citizenship."--Laura S. Jenson, Perspectives on Politics "Lawrence Mead's book is an extraordinary chronicle of perhaps the most well known and successful instance of American welfare reform in the 1990s, in Wisconsin... [A] judicious combination of interviews, participant-observation, documentary research, and statistical analysis."--Robert C. Lieberman, Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryTable of ContentsPreface ix List of Acronyms xiii CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2 The Development of Reform 18 CHAPTER 3 The Politics of Reform 37 CHAPTER 4 Implementing Work Requirements 63 CHAPTER 5 Local Variations 79 CHAPTER 6 The Emergence of W-2 107 CHAPTER 7 Implementing W-2 132 CHAPTER 8 Paternalism 157 CHAPTER 9 The Decline of Welfare 175 CHAPTER 10 The Effects of Reform 193 CHAPTER 11 Welfare Reform and Good Government 214 CHAPTER 12 Origins of Excellence 245 CHAPTER 13 Implications 261 Notes 279 Index 341
£34.00
Rlpg/Galleys Coordinating the Criminal Justice System
Book SynopsisThis guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function. It may also be of special interest to citizens and public officials who sense that more collaboration and coordination is needed to enhance criminal justice decision making which, in turn, will have a positive impact on local criminal justice systems. Leslie J. Smith advocates that the performance of the criminal justice system should be measured in terms of achieving the goals and objectives of each component collectively. Although the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the U.S. government are constitutionally independent and not required to engage in any coordinated planning activities, these requirements should not lead to poor performance. It is essential to promote positive government through increased collaboration by identifTable of ContentsPart 1 Figures Part 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Step 1: View the Criminal Justice System as One Organization Chapter 5 Step 2: Have a Complete Understanding of the Origins of the Criminal Justice System Chapter 6 Step 3: Become Familiar with Each Component of the Criminal Justice System and Use It as a Frame of Reference Chapter 7 Step 4: A Coordinated Approach to Develop Mission Statements Chapter 8 Step 5: Quality Decision Making at Each Level of the System Chapter 9 Step 6: Establish Organized and Coordinated Planning Strategies Chapter 10 Step 7: An Analysis Model that Measures the Performance of the Criminal Justice System Chapter 11 Step 8: Monitor the Organizational Environment Chapter 12 Step 9: A Planning Process at the Government and Community Level Chapter 13 Step 10: Criminal Justice Administrators Should Understand the Causes of Crime Chapter 14 Step 11 & 12: Evaluate Organizational Needs and Motivations within the Context of the Organizational Mission Chapter 15 Step 13: Improve the Justice Administration Process through Effective Programs Chapter 16 Steps 13A-13H: Examples of Programs that Positively Impact the Criminal Justice System's Total System Outcomes Chapter 17 Steps 14-15: Accomplishment of Goals and Objectives are the Primary Mission for the Organization Chapter 18 Step 16: Utilize the Available Technology Chapter 19 Step 17: Design a Community Based Justice Model and Incorporate into the Integrated Justice Model Part 20 Appendices Part 21 About the Author
£35.10
University Press of America Servants of the Law
Book SynopsisServants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California''s Supreme Court during the court''s formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state''s highest bench from 1857 to 1859 and, as events would later show, they confronted one another combatively, on and off, for almost thirty-five years. California''s beginnings as a United States territory and later as the nation''s thirty-first state were, in large part, fashioned in the wake of the country''s malevolent and unforgiving the Civil War. Together, Terry and Field''s lives served as an animate metaphor for the cultural and constitutional diversity that many nineteenth-century northern and southern judicial immigrants held toward one another.Trade ReviewThis book is not intended to be a precise judicial history of the state of California. Rather, because of the fascinating lives that two justices (Stephen Field and David Terry) lived, it makes for a beguiling narrative about two very human judges and the judicial and personal confrontations between them during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In the eyes of their judicial brethren, Terry's legal years began in promise and ended in disgrace, while Field's years began in promise and led to the nation's judicial pantheon. -- The Honorable Marcus Lucas, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, retiredServants of the Law offers an account of the state of California's legal beginnings as it played itself out in the biographies of two of its earliest Chief Justices - David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field. It was an era when Mexico's Latin law was replaced by Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. The sometimes devious personal conflicts between Field the northerner and Terry the southerner spans most of the last half of the 19th century. Moreover, the book is a fascinating and scholarly narrative of how the jurist Field moved to The United States Supreme Court for thirty-four years of service, while the gold-miner Terry vanished in disgrace for having been on the wrong side of the Civil War. -- William Johnston, superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District, 1971-81Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 1. El Dorado Chapter 4 2. A Hasty Footpath to Statehood Chapter 5 3. From Juris Civilus to Use and Custom Chapter 6 4. A Judicial Activist Chapter 7 5. Justices of the Supreme Bench of California Chapter 8 6. Persona non Grata Chapter 9 7. Growing Resentments Chapter 10 8. Political Dreams Chapter 11 9. Jus et Fraus Nunquam Cohabitant (Law and Fraud Never Cohabitat) Chapter 12 10. Injury Unrequited Chapter 13 11. Dishonor en Absentia Chapter 14 Selected Bibliography Chapter 15 Index
£50.40
Cornell University Press Affirmative Action for the Future
Book SynopsisAt a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open. In...Trade Review"James P. Sterba has thoroughly canvassed the subject of affirmative action, and his arguments in this book are very clear and compelling. Affirmative Action for the Future will be read eagerly by anyone interested in affirmative action and social justice, whether their primary focus is on philosophy, law, political science, race theory, or feminism."—Anita M. Superson, University of Kentucky, author of The Moral Skeptic"Wherever we might stand on the topic of affirmative action, James P. Sterba's extraordinarily well-informed book in defense of the practice truly deserves our attention. We who oppose affirmative action will find significant considerations that give us tremendous pause. We who support it will find new resources for refashioning our arguments in far more powerful ways. Written with thoroughness, eloquence of thought, and purity of heart, Affirmative Action for the Future is a book that no one should ignore. It is a magnificent piece of philosophical writing that is most timely."—Laurence Thomas, Syracuse University, author of The Family and the Political Self
£91.80
Cornell University Press Fighting for Virtue Justice and Politics in
Book SynopsisFighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems—and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and...Trade ReviewThis is an original, heavily researched, fascinating, highly readable, and ultimately frightening book. * Bangkok Post *Fighting for Virtue makes an original contribution to critical debates about the rule of law in Southeast Asia. It will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in understanding the morbid politics of the final decade of King Bhumibol's reign. For both these reasons, it deserves to be read widely. * Contemporary Southeast Asia *Duncan McCargo has tackled yet another fascinating aspect of Thailand's politics in Fighting for Virtue. McCargo treats the reader to an abundance of details, thoughtful analysis, and savvy observation. Overall, this book is an important contribution that will be cited for years to come. * Pacific Affairs *Fighting for Virtue is a compelling text that portrays the dynamics of a complicated judiciary, a central player in the fractious political landscape of contemporary Thailand. It is highly recommended to readers of political anthropology, legal studies, history, political science and Southeast Asian studies. * The London School of Economics and Political Science *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Legalism and Revival of Treason 1. Privileged Caste? 2. Bench and Throne 3. Challenges to the Judiciary 4. Against the Crown? 5. Computer Compassings 6. Against the State 7. Crimes of Thaksin 8. Courting Constitutionalism Conclusion: The Trouble Is Politics Notes Index
£37.05
North Carolina Division of Archives & History Selected Documents Relating to Law Reform in
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£45.90
LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD A Treatise on the Legal Remedies of Mandamus and
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£25.60
LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts Reprinted From
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£18.00
Creative Media Partners, LLC Express Trusts Under the Common Law A Superior
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£21.80
Cambridge University Press The End of the Eurocrats Dream
Book SynopsisContributions from prominent economists, lawyers, philosophers and political scientists go beyond short-term technical diagnoses in order to analyse the deeper causes of the European crisis and provide readers with a broad understanding of what goes on in the European Union.Trade Review'The volume is certainly meant as a wake up call - most contributors agree that at present the EU risks sleep walking to disaster … Cue for a follow-up volume I think, a process to which the commentaries, expertly edited by Julia Slupska, Research Assistant at the LSE, mark a welcome first step.' Richard Bellamy, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'As stated in its preface, this impressive collection of essays has the ambitious aim of launching a 'fundamental debate' about European integration in the wake of the crisis and, in particular, the institutional reforms and policy choices made since 2008.' Maurizio Ferrera, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'One of the most remarkable insights of this book is to put the debate about the future of Europe in a frame of historical contingence. The Europe that could be different is, for the same reasons, the one that is not condemned to success, as the crisis has revealed to us, after decades of calm necessity.' Daniel Innerarity, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'The End of the Eurocrats' Dream provides a very persuasive diagnosis of the structural problems the EU encounters and provides pragmatic proposals for countering them …' Poul Fritz Kjaer, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'The subtitle of this book, Adjusting to European Diversity, could be the slogan of a new endeavour, not to destroy the EU, but to revitalise is. Christian Joerges (Eurocrats … 299 et seq.) has given a very convincing overview of different paradigms of government and governance in the EU … We have to think 'outside of the box!' And this is what the authors of the The End of the Eurocrat's Dream have done well.' Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'The End of the Eurocrats' Dream is … a wake-up call warning fellow academics, European politicians and the general public that what used to be presented by many advocates and agents of European integration as a wonderful dream is now often experienced as a nightmare with potentially disastrous effects for European and national politics in all countries of the EU.' Jiøí Pøibáò, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'This edited volume is a powerful attempt at addressing the challenges (of European integration). It brings together contributions from a wide range of renown academics from across Europe (if not beyond) and various disciplines from law to philosophy, with a stopover in political science. The authors examine several dimensions of European integration placed under strain in recent years, ranging from the monetary union, fiscal policy to concerns for citizenship.' Elise Muir, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)'While EU scholarship still tends to narrate the Union's history as one of successful adaptation, and the 'euro crisis' as something like a rite of passage, here is a book in a different mould … The volume makes for powerful critical reading. While studies of the failings of Eurozone design and their institutional consequences are now abundant, the editors have a larger ambition: to show the effects of crisis on the ideas and ideals commonly vested in the EU.' Jonathan White, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)Table of ContentsList of tables; Preface; 1. The retransformation of Europe Damian Chalmers, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christian Joerges; 2. The costs of non-disintegration: the case of the European Monetary Union Fritz W. Scharpf; 3. Sharing the Eurocrat's dream: a democratic approach to EMU governance in the post-crisis era Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Max Watson; 4. Neumark vindicated: the three patterns of Europeanisation of national tax systems and the future of the Social and Democratic Rechtsstaat Agustín José Menéndez; 5. What Europe does to citizenship Catherine Colliot-Thélène; 6. Silencing the Eurocrats in public crisis politics Pieter de Wilde; 7. Conflict-minimizing integration: how the EU achieves massive integration despite massive protest Phillip Genschel and Markus Jachtenfuchs; 8. An unholy trinity of EU presidents? The political accountability of post-crisis EU executive power Mark Bovens and Deidre Curtin; 9. The limits of collective action and collective leadership Giandomenico Majone; 10. Europe's legitimacy problem and the courts Dieter Grimm; 11. Crisis reconfiguration of the European constitutional state Damian Chalmers; 12. Integration through law and the crisis of law in Europe's emergency Christian Joerges.
£36.65
Cambridge University Press Reconstructing Rights
Book SynopsisJudges often behave in surprising ways when they re-interpret laws and constitutions. Contrary to existing expectations, judges regularly abandon their own established interpretations in favor of new understandings. In Reconstructing Rights, Stephan Stohler offers a new theory of judicial behavior which demonstrates that judges do not act alone. Instead, Stohler shows that judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned partisans in the elected branches to articulate evolving interpretations of major statutes and constitutions. Reconstructing Rights draws on legislative debates, legal briefs, and hundreds of judicial opinions issued from high courts in India, South Africa, and the United States in the area of discrimination and affirmative action. These materials demonstrate judges'' willingness to provide interpretative leadership. But they also demonstrate how judges relinquish their leadership roles when their aligned counterparts disagree. This pattern of behavior indicates thaTrade Review'… Stohler provides a compelling argument for recognizing and understanding constitutional interpretation through the lens of deliberative partnerships. It is well-researched and well-written with a rich body of evidence that I strongly recommend for scholars and students in political science and law, particularly those concerned with questions of interbranch relationships, constitutional interpretation, and comparative studies.' Allyson C. Yankle, Law and Politics Book ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The politics of legal interpretation; Part II. United States of America: 2. Equality rights in American education and public spending; 3. Equality rights in American employment; 4. Equality rights in American representation; Part III. India: 5. Equality rights in Indian employment; 6. Equality rights in Indian education; Part IV. South Africa: 7. Equality rights in South Africa; Part V. Conclusion: 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£93.99
Bristol University Press Rescaling Urban Governance
Book SynopsisProviding new research and thinking about cities, their governance and planning reform, this book compares the UK with multiple international examples in order to examine cutting-edge experimentation and innovation in new models of governance and urban policy in response to today's increasing global social and environmental challenges.Trade Review“This book is a very helpful guide and resource to both the past and future devolution agenda.” Local Government StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Planning reform and state spatial rescaling Devolution: A patchwork quilt of planning reform Replacing the regions: The evolution of English subnational reform City regions and the cities within them: Connecting two overlapping scales Local authorities: Powerhouses or scapegoats? Community-led governance: Opportunities and constraints Conclusion: Rescaling urban governance
£71.99
Arcadia Publishing Creating Sarasota County
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£18.69
LexisNexis UK ArnoldBaker on Local Council Administration
Book SynopsisArnold-Baker on Local Council Administration, often referred to as ''the bible'', is a complete statement of the law relating to parish and community councils, in the form of an extensive though succinct narrative accompanied by comprehensive statutory materials.Now in its 13th edition, the ever-popular ''yellow book'' remains the key text for Parish Councils, Local Authorities, barristers, and solicitors practicing in local government law and public and administrative law.
£180.50
Edinburgh University Press Scots Law of Delict
Book SynopsisThis book presents an exhaustive, integrated treatment of the law of Delict in Scotland, covering negligence, injuries to specific interests (such as defamation and assault), statutory liability, and defences and remedies. It also gives appropriate consideration to case law and commentary from other jurisdictions, especially England and Wales.
£180.00
New York University Press The Poverty Industry
Book SynopsisThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisTrade ReviewHatcher exposes an urgent paradox at the heart of American governance: why, and how, are states and localities teaming up with corporations to squeeze profits from societys poorest? The Poverty Industry breaks fresh ground. Every American who cares about the intersection of private profits and public justice should read this book, and wrestle with its arguments. Hatcher marshals years of legal experience and research towards fulfilling the muckrakers calling: 'to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.' But he also goes a step further. In The Poverty Industry, he combines a practitioners depth with a journalists flair for storytelling, to generate the first complete account of a little-known phenomenon that should be of interest to every reader with a conscience. -- Sarah Stillman, staff writer for The New YorkerEveryone today is skeptical of charitable organizations that spend too little of their money on charity. After reading this book, Americans are sure to become just as skeptical when state and local governments spend federal tax dollars. Hatchers tour-de-force spells out how federal government spending on services for the poor are being wasted. . . . No one who reads this book will ever feel the same about fiscal federalism. . . . Hatcher shows that a shocking amount of money is going to profit private businesses. Even worse, these businesses are teaching state and local governments how to scam the feds by taking money for one purpose and misusing it to help fill a hole in the state budget outside of the purposes for which the money is being given. An extremely important book. -- Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York UniversityIn the tradition of great muckraking, Hatcher has exposed how states and localities have misdirected and misused public funds envisioned to benefit the most vulnerable among us. . . . Should be required reading for lawmakers and public officials, to remind them of their legal and moral responsibilities and to inspire them to stop these disturbing practices and direct these crucial resources to their rightful recipients. -- Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University[An] important book...Hatcher has done a great public service by shining a light on these massive distortions. * Stanford Social Innovation Review *In this meticulously researched book Hatcher, who has represented vulnerable people in court for years, including children in foster care, lifts the lid on a system that rather than helping the needy, systematically turns them into 'a source of revenue'. * The Guardian,Mary O'Hara *Daniel Hatcher meticulously explains the impact of deregulated privatisation on America's already residual care services. * Times Higher Education *Hatcher provides beautiful examples of unintended consequences of government policies: states rip off the federal government because the federal government has unwittingly incentivized the states to do exactly that. * Choice *A law professor at the University of Baltimore who has represented Maryland victims of such schemes, Hatcher presents a distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars. * Boston Review *Hatcher throws light on what can be hidden processes in human services budgeting, contracting, and implementation. The Poverty Industry walks through the evolution of legal doctrine regarding rights of vulnerable persons...The narrative provides compelling evidence that scholars, policymakers, and advocates should take a closer look at the political and business relationships shaping contracting decisions involving for-profit firms. * Political Science Quarterly *"Poverty is here painted as an industry that, like the defense industry, has an iron triangle. As explored by Hatcher, it depicts revenue maximization services and contingency fees that decrease the funds from the federal government that go to helping children and the poor. * Library Journal *The Poverty Industry exposes the venality of a startling number of public servants and private contractors who misdirect and misuse public funds intended to benefit those most in need. * Jewish Currents *
£20.89
New York University Press The Poverty Industry
Book SynopsisThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisTrade ReviewHatcher exposes an urgent paradox at the heart of American governance: why, and how, are states and localities teaming up with corporations to squeeze profits from societys poorest? The Poverty Industry breaks fresh ground. Every American who cares about the intersection of private profits and public justice should read this book, and wrestle with its arguments. Hatcher marshals years of legal experience and research towards fulfilling the muckrakers calling: 'to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.' But he also goes a step further. In The Poverty Industry, he combines a practitioners depth with a journalists flair for storytelling, to generate the first complete account of a little-known phenomenon that should be of interest to every reader with a conscience. -- Sarah Stillman, staff writer for The New YorkerEveryone today is skeptical of charitable organizations that spend too little of their money on charity. After reading this book, Americans are sure to become just as skeptical when state and local governments spend federal tax dollars. Hatchers tour-de-force spells out how federal government spending on services for the poor are being wasted. . . . No one who reads this book will ever feel the same about fiscal federalism. . . . Hatcher shows that a shocking amount of money is going to profit private businesses. Even worse, these businesses are teaching state and local governments how to scam the feds by taking money for one purpose and misusing it to help fill a hole in the state budget outside of the purposes for which the money is being given. An extremely important book. -- Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York UniversityIn the tradition of great muckraking, Hatcher has exposed how states and localities have misdirected and misused public funds envisioned to benefit the most vulnerable among us. . . . Should be required reading for lawmakers and public officials, to remind them of their legal and moral responsibilities and to inspire them to stop these disturbing practices and direct these crucial resources to their rightful recipients. -- Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University[An] important book...Hatcher has done a great public service by shining a light on these massive distortions. * Stanford Social Innovation Review *In this meticulously researched book Hatcher, who has represented vulnerable people in court for years, including children in foster care, lifts the lid on a system that rather than helping the needy, systematically turns them into 'a source of revenue'. * The Guardian,Mary O'Hara *Daniel Hatcher meticulously explains the impact of deregulated privatisation on America's already residual care services. * Times Higher Education *Hatcher provides beautiful examples of unintended consequences of government policies: states rip off the federal government because the federal government has unwittingly incentivized the states to do exactly that. * Choice *A law professor at the University of Baltimore who has represented Maryland victims of such schemes, Hatcher presents a distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars. * Boston Review *Hatcher throws light on what can be hidden processes in human services budgeting, contracting, and implementation. The Poverty Industry walks through the evolution of legal doctrine regarding rights of vulnerable persons...The narrative provides compelling evidence that scholars, policymakers, and advocates should take a closer look at the political and business relationships shaping contracting decisions involving for-profit firms. * Political Science Quarterly *"Poverty is here painted as an industry that, like the defense industry, has an iron triangle. As explored by Hatcher, it depicts revenue maximization services and contingency fees that decrease the funds from the federal government that go to helping children and the poor. * Library Journal *The Poverty Industry exposes the venality of a startling number of public servants and private contractors who misdirect and misuse public funds intended to benefit those most in need. * Jewish Currents *
£62.90
University of Toronto Press Policing Canadas Century
Book SynopsisAlthough the RCMP is often identified as a national symbol, Canadian police history is largely the story of municipal and provincial police forces who have had little influence on popular culture but considerable impact on the lives of Canadians. Municipal police forces predate the Mounties by a generation and first began to articulate their concerns through the Chief Constables’ Association of Canada (CCAC) in 1905. The development of this little-studied, non-governmental organization, known since the 1950s as the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), has been a crucial part of our criminal-justice history.The CACP/CCAC story mirrors the social and intellectual history of policing in twentieth-century Canada. Beginning with and overview of nineteenth-century policing and the conditions that led to the establishment of this first policy lobby. Policing Canada’s Century is a chronicle of police reaction to social change and the rise of new institutions, r
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Lone Star Books Know Your Rights
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£16.14
Lexington Books Local Governments in Multilevel Governance
Book SynopsisLocal governments serve their communities in many diversified ways as they increasingly engage in multiple connections: international, regional, regional-local, with nongovernmental organizations and through external nongovernmental services county actors. The book discusses how the shift in emphasis from government to governance has raised many management challenges, along with shifting expectations and demands.Trade ReviewRobert Agranoff is the doyen of collaborative public management. Local Governments in Multilevel Governance explores the way multi-level government impacts public management. He explores how the shift from government to governance has changed the relationships between networks and bureaucracy, especially in local government. It will be a career defining book and a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in managing the complex webs of organizations that typify modern governance. -- R A W Rhodes, University of SouthamptonRobert Agranoff’s broad sweep of the administrative challenges of local government in the current era of global and multi-level governance is both exhaustive and compelling. Synthesizing the rapidly growing literature on multi-level governance and drawing on his vast research experience in cross-national public management, Agranoff’s monograph provides the most comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the managerial challenges facing governments whether a federal or quasi-federal or emerging federal system. Indeed, as Agranoff claims, multi-level governance issues transcend federal systems as various networks define the complexity of MLG governance in the contemporary era. The work is grounded in extensive analyses of NGOs and governmental agencies, their interactions, and the promise for greater intergovernmental collaboration. The frame for understanding MLG complexity is from that of local governments, which given the enormous variation in structure, form and style across the local government terrain creates the dynamic texture of Agranoff’s analysis. Local Governments in Multi-Level Governance will be required reading for all scholars of government, governance, and political systems in general. -- Michael A. Pagano, The University of Illinois at ChicagoThis book is a great contribution to our understanding of a crucial yet undervalued governance actor: local government. By one of the most renowned scholars in the field of intergovernmental relations and network management, the volume achieves both to conceptually analyze the complex changes transforming public administration and to pragmatically provide tools and managerial insights for practitioners. Agranoff exquisitely describes how local governments are today a) vertically linked all the way up to international institutions, b) horizontally embedded in multiple inter-local bodies, c) organizationally related to external for profit and nonprofit providers, and d) politically permeated by citizen groups and initiatives. The author also reviews in depth the managerial consequences of these phenomenal transformations. The book is a necessary counterpoint to both the simplistic legal characterization of local governments as isolated bureaucracies and to the unsophisticated rhetoric of government hollowing-out. The book’s international comparative approach makes it even more valuable to both researchers and practitioners. -- Angel Saz-Carranza, Director, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and GeopoliticsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Governing in Multi-Level Systems: Administrative Linkages from Local to National Chapter 2: Intergovernmental Relations Platforms: Managing in MLG Chapter 3: Bringing Local Governments into MLG Systems Chapter 4: Local System Development Chapter 5: Politics: Big “P” and Small “p” Chapter 6: The Knowledge Management Challenge in MLG Chapter 7: Networks and Networking Chapter 8: Interoperability: Sequential Inter-organizational Planning and Programming Chapter 9: The New Bureaucracy: Conductive Administrative Organizations Chapter 10: An Emerging Paradigm: Global Influences on Local Governments Chapter 11: Local Government, MLG: Its Administration in the Present and Future
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Lexington Books Local Governments in Multilevel Governance
Book SynopsisLocal governments serve their communities in many diversified ways as they increasingly engage in multiple connections: international, regional, regional-local, with nongovernmental organizations and through external nongovernmental services county actors. The book discusses how the shift in emphasis from government to governance has raised many management challenges, along with shifting expectations and demands.Trade ReviewRobert Agranoff is the doyen of collaborative public management. Local Governments in Multilevel Governance explores the way multi-level government impacts public management. He explores how the shift from government to governance has changed the relationships between networks and bureaucracy, especially in local government. It will be a career defining book and a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in managing the complex webs of organizations that typify modern governance. -- R A W Rhodes, University of SouthamptonRobert Agranoff’s broad sweep of the administrative challenges of local government in the current era of global and multi-level governance is both exhaustive and compelling. Synthesizing the rapidly growing literature on multi-level governance and drawing on his vast research experience in cross-national public management, Agranoff’s monograph provides the most comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the managerial challenges facing governments whether a federal or quasi-federal or emerging federal system. Indeed, as Agranoff claims, multi-level governance issues transcend federal systems as various networks define the complexity of MLG governance in the contemporary era. The work is grounded in extensive analyses of NGOs and governmental agencies, their interactions, and the promise for greater intergovernmental collaboration. The frame for understanding MLG complexity is from that of local governments, which given the enormous variation in structure, form and style across the local government terrain creates the dynamic texture of Agranoff’s analysis. Local Governments in Multi-Level Governance will be required reading for all scholars of government, governance, and political systems in general. -- Michael A. Pagano, The University of Illinois at ChicagoThis book is a great contribution to our understanding of a crucial yet undervalued governance actor: local government. By one of the most renowned scholars in the field of intergovernmental relations and network management, the volume achieves both to conceptually analyze the complex changes transforming public administration and to pragmatically provide tools and managerial insights for practitioners. Agranoff exquisitely describes how local governments are today a) vertically linked all the way up to international institutions, b) horizontally embedded in multiple inter-local bodies, c) organizationally related to external for profit and nonprofit providers, and d) politically permeated by citizen groups and initiatives. The author also reviews in depth the managerial consequences of these phenomenal transformations. The book is a necessary counterpoint to both the simplistic legal characterization of local governments as isolated bureaucracies and to the unsophisticated rhetoric of government hollowing-out. The book’s international comparative approach makes it even more valuable to both researchers and practitioners. -- Angel Saz-Carranza, Director, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and GeopoliticsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Governing in Multi-Level Systems: Administrative Linkages from Local to NationalChapter 2: Intergovernmental Relations Platforms: Managing in MLG Chapter 3: Bringing Local Governments into MLG SystemsChapter 4: Local System DevelopmentChapter 5: Politics: Big “P” and Small “p”Chapter 6: The Knowledge Management Challenge in MLGChapter 7: Networks and NetworkingChapter 8: Interoperability: Sequential Inter-organizational Planning and ProgrammingChapter 9: The New Bureaucracy: Conductive Administrative OrganizationsChapter 10: An Emerging Paradigm: Global Influences on Local GovernmentsChapter 11: Local Government, MLG: Its Administration in the Present and Future
£36.00
Lexington Books The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock
Book SynopsisAt this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case are hardly confined to New Hampshire. They involved the proper nature and operation of judicial independence within a populist civic culture that had long assumed the primacy of the legislative branch, extolled its citizen legislators over insulated and professionalized elites, and entrusted those legislators to properly supervise the judiciary.In the last few decades of the 20th Century, New Hampshire's judiciary had been substantially reconfigured: constitutional amendments and other measures endorsed by the national judicial-modernization movement had secured for it a much higher level of independence and internal unification than it had historically enjoyed. However, a bipartisan body Trade ReviewScholars have long studied executive-legislative relations in the US system of checks and balances and have paid little attention to the friction between legislatures and courts, yet these struggles are important. Legislators may be swept away by “civic populism,” loudly scapegoating the unpopular and embracing simplified panaceas to complex problems. Courts must protect the civil liberties of the unpopular and enforce limits on the public will. The authors view this perennial conflict through the lens of a case study. In 2000, the New Hampshire House of Representatives made David Brock only the seventh chief justice ever to be impeached. The charges included exercising improper influence over cases and perjury. But the real reasons ran deeper. Brock had presided over a series of unpopular decisions involving school finance. More generally, the branches disagreed over how independent courts should be. Conflicts over powers and limits always lurk below the surface of US politics and became public during Brock’s trial in the state senate. He was acquitted, but efforts to restore interbranch comity went on long afterward. The authors make this interesting story into a useful introduction to institutional state politics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Unlike many efforts to characterize the sometimes-caustic interplay between unelected judges and elected politicians, which reveal authors’ biases and predilections, Cerullo and Steelman assiduously seek throughout the narrative to fairly reflect the facts and to objectively frame the competing arguments as they emerge over time. . . . The narrative’s value as an historical account is enhanced by its portrayal of the eventual changing dynamic of interbranch relations, culminating in the softening of embedded political culture of mutual contempt and intransigence. Acknowledging the extreme polarity that divides us as a nation, as a world, we might take pause and follow the trail New Hampshire painfully blazed. * International Journal for Court Administration *The authors are well-qualified to undertake this study, and their doing so is a contribution to the understanding of our state courts and their history, as this book provides an account of things which should be remembered and understood by New Hampshire citizens, especially its attorneys and judges. . . . This is a good book, and a thorough resource about a critical time in New Hampshire history which an increasing number of bar members did not experience. . . this is a valuable book, and should be required reading by all attorneys and especially all judges, who need to understand the historic and political context in which we work. * New Hampshire Bar News *The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock: Judicial Independence and Civic Populism tackles a fascinating but little known political drama. The authors do an admirable job of presenting an evenhanded analysis of what was a highly contentious effort to remove the chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Although the events recounted occurred almost two decades ago, the attention now given to politics in the states and to questions surrounding the independence of the judicial branch make the lessons offered by this study timely. This book will be of interest to political scientists focused on judicial politics, legislative studies and American state politics, historians concerned with modern American politics, and legal scholars. -- Peverill Squire, University of MissouriHarry Truman liked to say, 'The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.' This is especially true in the realm of impeachment, where the focus has too often been on the use of that mechanism at the federal level. This book helps to correct that mistake. It examines a state judicial impeachment, which the authors should be commended for making better known and provides an excellent reminder of the ways in which States are as important, if not more important, than the federal government, in protecting judicial independence. -- Michael Gerhardt, University of North Carolina School of LawTable of Contents1. The Historic New Hampshire Civic Culture 2. Twentieth-Century Reforms: Reconfiguring Only the Judiciary 3. Interbranch Relations at Century’s End 4. The Fairbanks Scandal and its Repercussions 5. Education Funding Litigation 6. Tipping Points 7. The House of Representatives Acts 8. Impeachment Proceedings in the Senate 9. Populist Efforts to Constrain Judicial Power 10. Restoring Interbranch Comity
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cornerstone on Social Housing Fraud
Book SynopsisIn response to social housing fraud, the Government introduced the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013, which made sub-letting and parting with possession of social lets a specific criminal offence and granted local authorities the power to prosecute those who had acted in such a manner. Not only can offenders be jailed, but they can also be fined and ordered to pay an unlawful profit order, thus opening up a revenue opportunity to cash-strapped social landlords. Social housing fraud is an important and high profile issue. This title provides a thorough overview of this regime and how local authorities can maximise their chances of recovering possession of properties affected by fraud, obtaining ‘compensation’ and securing a conviction, including techniques for effective evidence gathering. Topics covered, include: - Possession action in the county court - Sub-letting/parting with possession - Investigation powers - Criminal offences and procedure - Civil remedies - GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 For ease of reference, relevant primary and secondary legislation has been included within the appendices, which also includes templates for: Particulars of Claim (county court), Complaint (magistrates’ court) Notice to Quit and Notice Seeking Possession. There is also a useful landlord checklist, to ensure nothing has been overlooked during what can be a complex process. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Local Government Law and Property and Land Law online services.Table of Contents1. FRAUD IN THE SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR 2. TENANCY PROCURED BY FALSE STATEMENT 3. MISUSE OF PROPERTY 4. ONLY OR PRINCIPAL HOME/SUCCESSION 5. CIVIL FINANCIAL REMEDIES 6. INVESTIGATION AND EVIDENCE 7. CRIMINAL SANCTIONS APPENDICES Appendix A – Statutes Appendix B – Secondary Legislation Appendix C – Civil Procedure Rule and Guidance Appendix D – Landlord checklist
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Law of Compulsory Purchase
Book SynopsisSetting out the practice, procedure, policy and compensation provisions applying to a compulsory purchase, this new edition is updated to include all relevant case law, legislation, policy and guidance since the third edition, including: - the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) Practice Directions, October 2020 - the implementation of the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 - changes in secondary legislation (including the Tribunal procedure rules) - changes in policy and guidance (especially the guidance for Wales and the Tribunal practice directions) It enables you to: -find clear statements of the law and practice on all points that relate to compulsory purchase and compensation -understand the detailed analysis necessary to grapple with tricky points encountered in practice -access cross-references to legislation, key case law and guidance, easily As it simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity any difficult areas, it is the one guide you need to help you access and assimilate all the statutes, of varying antiquity and judicial decisions, that relate to compulsory purchase and compensation. It describes the law, practice, procedure, policy and compensation for a compulsory purchase, and provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further information. It also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensation. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Local Government Law online service.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Powers of compulsory purchase; Chapter 2: Compulsory purchase orders and procedure; Chapter 3: Implementation of compulsory purchase; Chapter 4: Compensation for compulsory purchase; Chapter 5: Compensation where no land taken; Chapter 5: Compensation for decisions, controls and works; Chapter 6: Determination and recovery of compensation.
£166.25
Bloomsbury Academic Homelessness and Allocations
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Law of Compulsory Purchase
Book SynopsisGeneral Editor, Richard Honey KC, works with a team of barristers from Francis Taylor Building that specialise in this area.
£180.50
School of Government Incorporation of a North Carolina Town
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School of Government Eminent Domain and Local Government in North
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School of Government Social Services in North Carolina
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School of Government Inclusionary Zoning: A Guide to Ordinances and
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School of Government Land Use Law in North Carolina
Book SynopsisAddresses various components of local government development regulation, including the types and legal authority for regulations that are used, roles and responsibilities of those involved, the scope of city and county jurisdiction, and a wealth of detailed legal analysis. The new edition incorporates legal developments since 2006.
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School of Government Wicked Problems: What Can Local Governments Do?
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School of Government Digital Evidence
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School of Government The Citizens Academy Handbook: Building Capacity
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School of Government In Prison: Serving a Felony Sentence in North
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School of Government Local Government Immunity to Lawsuits in North
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School of Government 2018 Cumulative Supplement to Arrest, Search, and
Book SynopsisThis supplement updates Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina, Fifth Edition, 2016. It includes recent cases from the United States Supreme Court and from North Carolina's appellate courts, and North Carolina legislation.
£37.00
School of Government North Carolina Guide to Animal Services Law
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School of Government 2018 Punishment Chart for North Carolina Crimes
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American Bar Association Annotations to Surplus Lines Statutes, Sixth
Book SynopsisThe surplus lines market segment has grown tremendously since the fifth edition of this book. Surplus lines carriers have been providing more coverage in hard-to-insure markets and when the insurance market becomes "hard," domestic insurance prices rise. And with more catastrophic losses, such as losses caused by wildfires, hurricanes, and other weather-related events, causing a hardening market, the amount of insurance written though the surplus lines market has and will continue to increase greatly. Industries such as construction that find getting coverage to be a difficult task are also turning to the surplus lines market. The U.S. surplus lines insurance market size was valued at $52.1 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $125.9 billion by 2027.Now in its sixth edition, Annotations to Surplus Line Statutes is the most comprehensive analysis of surplus lines statutes available. It provides lawyers with a concise, single-volume reference which covers state surplus lines statutes, their amendments and regulations promulgated for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.This new edition will be very useful to insurance regulatory lawyers, surplus lines brokers, surplus lines insurers, state surplus lines associations, and stamping offices.Much of what was covered in the fifth edition of the book was affected or displaced by the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA), which was part of Dodd-Frank, and other changes to the law. Some states are attempting to assert more regulatory control over surplus lines insurers to protect consumers, even though they are not admitted in the state and even though this was not done historically.
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American Bar Association Constitutional Policing: Striving for a More
Book SynopsisThere is not a single place in America where police and the community they serve do not exist side by side. America has always been the gold standard of democracy and freedom in the world. It has also been valued as that place where equal justice under the law is the rule and not the exception. While the nation is great in so many ways, it is not perfect. “We the people” continue to be challenged in two significant areas of development. One is in matters of “race” and the other is in the matters of “policing.” The issues of “race and policing” continue to lie at the center of our nation’s struggle to “form a more perfect union.” This book, Constitutional Policing: Striving for a More Perfect Union, examines the issues of policing in America and the pathways to achieve a level of constitutional policing that begins to address how our diverse nation and the communities we live in can become safer, more equitable, more respectful of our differences. The chapters in this book detail the legal challenges that will have to be engaged in if there is any hope of our communities becoming places where we truly are engaging the possibilities of government “of people, by the people, for the people.”Table of ContentsTable of Contents:Part I: Foundations1. Qualified Immunity, Wylie Stecklow2. Administrative Complaints Against Police, Rita McNeil Danish3. Accountability of Police as Public Employees, James Hanks4. Constitutional Policing, Royce RussellPart II: Effecting Positive Changes Toward a More Perfect Union5. Contemporary Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, Sharon R. Fairley6. Pattern or Practice Investigations and Consent Decrees, Michael A. Hardy7. Litigating Police-Civilian Encounters, William Harmening8. Transforming Policing: Lessons from New York City, Donna LiebermanAfterword: The Most Perfect Union Protects and Serves Us All, Jelani Jefferson ExumIndex
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American Bar Association Premarital Agreements: Drafting and Negotiation,
Book SynopsisPremarital Agreements, Third Edition is an updated, clearly written primer that focuses on the fundamentals involved in negotiating and drafting these agreements, explaining the most critical aspects involved in creating a premarital agreement: General validity and criteria for an enforceable premarital agreement The role of the lawyer in creating the agreement, various ethical components of an agreement and the practical techniques of negotiating the terms of the agreement Post-execution issues Text of a model agreement and drafting techniques to carry out the objectives of the parties. To assist the drafter, various options are given that allow the premarital agreement to be tailored to the client's specific needs
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American Bar Association 2023 Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S.
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American Bar Association The False Claims Act and Government Contracts
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