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 Michael Pertschuk, "When the Senate Worked for Us: The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies" English | ISBN: 0826521665 | 2017 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1045 KB Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives, as several books have documented.  Christian Lo, "When politics meets bureaucracy: Rules, norms, conformity and cheating " English | ISBN: 1526136686 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 395 KB This book follows the perspectives of high-level municipal bureaucrats and local politician through a wide range of policy processes in two small Norwegian municipalities. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the book offers a novel perspective on central themes from the governance literature. Most of all, the ethnographic accounts of political and administrative practices are used to demonstrate how processes of hierarchical government and broader processes of governance become inextricably intertwined during policy processes, and how horizontal alignments can modify the hierarchal logic of bureaucratic structures. Lo draws on perspectives from political science, sociology and anthropology to understand the cultural and historical conditions that inform this intertwinement. This broad approach makes the book relevant for a wide audience of students and scholars interested in the inner workings of bureaucratic organisations.  Barbara O'Neal, "When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1542004527 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.6 mb An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.  When They Appeared: Falcon Lake 1967: The Inside Story of a Close Encounter by Chris Rutkowski, Stan Michalak English | 2019 | ISBN: 1786770857 | 252 Pages | EPUB | 4.7 MB What happened in the Whiteshell Forest near Falcon Lake on May 20, 1967? For the first time in 50 years, the many facets of this astonishing tale finally come together.  Émilien Fargues, "When States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation and Its Discontents" English | ISBN: 0367896451 | 2020 | 130 pages | EPUB | 785 KB When States Take Rights Back draws on contributions by international experts in history, law, political science, and sociology, offering a rare interdisciplinary and comparative examination of citizenship revocation in five countries, revealing hidden government rationales and unintended consequences.  Alberto Martinelli, "When Populism Meets Nationalism: Reflections on Parties in Power " English | ISBN: 8867059009 | 2018 | 164 pages | EPUB | 667 KB In Europe and beyond, today populism is alive and kicking. Over the past few years, anti-establishment parties have made substantial strides. Some of them have reached the levers of governments, while others are consolidating their gains.  Daniel Schlozman, "When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History " English | ISBN: 069116469X | 2015 | 288 pages | EPUB | 882 KB Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral history by examining five prominent movements and their relationships with political parties.  Ahmed S. Hashim, "When Counterinsurgency Wins: Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers" English | ISBN: 0812244524 | 2013 | 280 pages | EPUB | 907 KB For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the insurgents. The win was unequivocal, but the terms of victory were not. The first successful counterinsurgency campaign of the twenty-first century left the world with many questions. How did Sri Lanka ultimately win this seemingly intractable war? Will other nations facing insurgencies be able to adopt Sri Lanka's methods without encountering accusations of human rights violations?  Synne L. Dyvik, "What's the Point of International Relations?" English | ISBN: 1138707317 | 2017 | 274 pages | EPUB | 857 KB What's the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR's leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline's origins, history, and composition. It sees IR as a discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains to be done. At the same time, it finds much that is worth celebrating in the discipline's growing pluralism and views IR as a deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit.
 Richard K. Fleischman, "What is Past is Prologue: Cost Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850 " English | ISBN: 1138055549 | 2018 | 358 pages | EPUB | 4 MB This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises. This study presents an overview of cost accounting and cost management practices, whilst investigating these methods in the three dominant industries of the period - iron, textiles, and mining. In addition, it provides two organisational case studies - the Carron Company and Boulton & Watt. Finally, it explores two issues central to Industrial Revolution costing - the relationship between technological change and cost management, and the paradigmatic approaches that have predominated in costing historiography. |
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