Governance


Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Prince
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Democracy in America
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
The Communist Manifesto
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader. ...more
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation's finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of the Harper agenda by stealth, yet another abuse of the democratic process. The bill was a behemoth. It was 904 pages, with 23 separate sections and 2,208 individual clauses.... As a Reform MP, [Stephen Harper] .... said of one piece of legislation that 'the subject matter of the bill is so diverse that a single vo ...more
Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The Politics Of Control

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