Mandate of the People
Author: Margaret A. Ogola
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789966011770
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Kings Or People
Author: Reinhard Bendix
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780520040908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is difficult to decide which is the more impressive: the authority and control with which Mr. Bendix writes of the traditions, the institutions, and the technological and social developments of cultures as diverse as the British, French, German, Russian, and Japanese, or the skill with which he weaves his separate stories into a persuasive scenario of the modern revolution. A remarkable achievement."--Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University ""Kings or People" is equal to the grandeur of its subject: the political origins of the modern world. With Barrington Moore's "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" and Immanuels Wallerstein's "The Modern World System" which it matches in boldness, while differing radically in perspective, it is one of the truly powerful ventures in comparative historical sociology to have appeared in recent years."--Clifford Geertz "A brilliant achievement that will be equally fascinating for the general reader, the student, and the specialized scholar."--Henry W. Ehrmann
Delivering the People’s Message
Author: Julia R. Azari
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0801470269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresidents have long invoked electoral mandates to justify the use of executive power. In Delivering the People’s Message, Julia R. Azari draws on an original dataset of more than 1,500 presidential communications, as well as primary documents from six presidential libraries, to systematically examine choices made by presidents ranging from Herbert Hoover in 1928 to Barack Obama during his 2008 election. Azari argues that Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 marked a shift from the modern presidency formed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to what she identifies as a more partisan era for the presidency. This partisan model is a form of governance in which the president appears to require a popular mandate in order to manage unruly and deeply contrary elements within his own party and succeed in the face of staunch resistance from the opposition party. Azari finds that when the presidency enjoys high public esteem and party polarization is low, mandate rhetoric is less frequent and employs broad themes. By contrast, presidents turn to mandate rhetoric when the office loses legitimacy, as in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam and during periods of intense polarization. In the twenty-first century, these two factors have converged. As a result, presidents rely on mandate rhetoric to defend their choices to supporters and critics alike, simultaneously creating unrealistic expectations about the electoral promises they will be able to fulfill.
The Talent Mandate
Author: Andrew Benett
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1137069449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Our employees are our greatest asset"-it's a cliché companies feel obliged to spout. Some may even believe it. But as with eating healthy food and getting exercise, lip-service doesn't make goals come true. In this groundbreaking book, The Talent Mandate, Andrew Benett explores how truly "talent centric" organizations thrive in today's changing economy. Based on original research and in-depth interviews with outstanding leaders of talent-driven organizations such as Zappos, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Nestle, Dow Chemical, The Motley Fool, AnswerLab, and more, Benett uncovers emerging trends and benchmarks and shows why it is so important to invest in and develop tomorrow's talent. Readers will come away with a clear lesson: Talent is no longer something to be palmed off down the chain of command. It must be the top business priority of the most senior people in the company-including the CEO.
Party Mandates and Democracy
Author: Elin Naurin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2019-02-28
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0472131214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a majority of pledges—sometimes a large majority—are acted upon in most countries, most of the time. The fulfillment of parties’ election pledges is an essential part of the democratic process. This book is the first major, genuinely comparative study of promises across a broad range of countries and elections, including the United States, Canada, nine Western European countries, and Bulgaria. The book thus adds to the body of literature on the variety of outcomes stemming from alternative democratic institutions.
The Man Date
Author: Tere Michaels
Publisher: Tere Michaels
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo matter how old you are, you want your best friends to be friends... Mac Kelley arrives in Pine Lake to work his dream job at The Love Broker, Inc. He quickly befriends his shy landlord Beck King, a retired model with two beloved dogs and a camera always around his neck. Deacon Wiley has been on the road with his beloved guitar, touring with America’s favorite Country Prince and Princess for almost twenty years. He’s gotten used to having a job and an eight-by-eight cubical on the bus. But now his life has imploded, and he’s forced to high tail it to the tundra of Pine Lake to bunk with his best friend, Mac. Three bachelors, living their best life! Except Deacon thinks Beck is a fancy poser, and Beck believes Deacon should shower more. But with Mac busy working with a hostile boss and his own ego, Deacon and Beck spend time together. And then things get...interesting. It’s a sexy secret but it’s just temporary. It’s a connection between two people who’ve lived their lives moving and pretending to be something they’re not. It might be bigger than either one of them imagined. (And Mac is in for one hell of a surprise...) Pine Lake has one rule - Fall in Love.
Mandate of Heaven
Author: Orville Schell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0684804476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's foremost chronicler of contemporary China brilliantly illuminates the new power structure, economic initiatives, and cultural changes that have transformed China since the Tianamen Square massacre of 1989. "A rich portrait, capturing a fascinating and perhaps fateful moment in China's long, turbulent history".--Arnold R. Isaacs, San Francisco Chronicle.
The Parliamentary Mandate
Author: Marc van der Hulst
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9291420565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUndersøgelse af parlamentsmandatet baseret på svar på IPU-spørgeskema fra 134 parlamenter. Svarene er sammenlignet systematisk med de respektive forfatninger, lovgivning og parlamentsforretningsordener.
Absent Mandate
Author: Harold D. Clarke
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-09
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1487594801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbsent Mandate develops the crucial concept of policy mandates, distinguished from other interpretations of election outcomes, and addresses the disconnect between election issues and government actions. Emphasizing Canadian federal elections between 1993 and 2015, the book examines the Chretien/Martin, Harper and Trudeau governments and the campaigns that brought them to power. Using data from the Canadian Election Studies and other major surveys, Absent Mandate documents the longstanding volatility in Canadian voting behaviour. This volatility reflects the flexibility of voters' partisan attachments, the salience of party leader images, and campaigns dominated by discussion of broad national problems and leaders rather than by coherent sets of policy proposals. The failure of elections to provide genuine policy mandates stimulates public discontent with the political process and widens the gap between the promise and the performance of Canadian democracy.
The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code
Author: Jiang Yonglin
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0295801662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter overthrowing the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), proclaimed that he had obtained the Mandate of Heaven (Tianming), enabling establishment of a spiritual orientation and social agenda for China. Zhu, emperor during the Ming’s Hongwu reign period, launched a series of social programs to rebuild the empire and define Chinese cultural identity. To promote its reform programs, the Ming imperial court issued a series of legal documents, culminating in The Great Ming Code (Da Ming lu), which supported China’s legal system until the Ming was overthrown and also served as the basis of the legal code of the following dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911). This companion volume to Jiang Yonglin’s translation of The Great Ming Code (2005) analyzes the thought underlying the imperial legal code. Was the concept of the Mandate of Heaven merely a tool manipulated by the ruling elite to justify state power, or was it essential to their belief system and to the intellectual foundation of legal culture? What role did law play in the imperial effort to carry out the social reform programs? Jiang addresses these questions by examining the transformative role of the Code in educating the people about the Mandate of Heaven. The Code served as a cosmic instrument and moral textbook to ensure “all under Heaven” were aligned with the cosmic order. By promoting, regulating, and prohibiting categories of ritual behavior, the intent of the Code was to provide spiritual guidance to Chinese subjects, as well as to acquire political legitimacy. The Code also obligated officials to obey the supreme authority of the emperor, to observe filial behavior toward parents, to care for the welfare of the masses, and to maintain harmonious relationships with deities. This set of regulations made officials the representatives of the Son of Heaven in mediating between the spiritual and mundane worlds and in governing the human realm. This study challenges the conventional assumption that law in premodern China was used merely as an arm of the state to maintain social control and as a secular tool to exercise naked power. Based on a holistic approach, Jiang argues that the Ming ruling elite envisioned the cosmos as an integrated unit; they saw law, religion, and political power as intertwined, remarkably different from the “modern” compartmentalized worldview. In serving as a cosmic instrument to manifest the Mandate of Heaven, The Great Ming Code represented a powerful religious effort to educate the masses and transform society.
