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Product Description: Provides a blueprint for more effective government and greater citizen participation."Transparency" has become the new mantra of politicians and pundits alike. But what does it mean in practice? In this informative, clearly written book community activist Donald Gordon defines the essential features of a transparent government and makes a convincing case that it is critical for a healthy and maturing democracy and the basic liberties we all take for granted...read more
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9781616149192 | Prometheus Books, April 15, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Provides a blueprint for more effective government and greater citizen participation.
Product Description: From the beginning of the American federal government, Congress has required executive branch agencies to release or otherwise make available government information and records. Some scholars and statesmen, including James Madison, thought access to information -- commonly referred to in contemporary vernacular as transparency -- was an essential cornerstone of democratic governance...read more
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9781624177736 | Nova Science Pub Inc, June 30, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: From the beginning of the American federal government, Congress has required executive branch agencies to release or otherwise make available government information and records.
Product Description: Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government's domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations. By the mid-1970s, the Justice Department and Army maintained some 400 databanks containing nearly 200 million files on supposedly subversive individuals and organizations...read more
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9780700618972 | Univ Pr of Kansas, March 1, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government's domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations.
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9781619428201 | Nova Science Pub Inc, May 30, 2012, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This title outlines the historical and inherent tension between secrecy and transparency in the congressional process; reviews several common and recurring secrecy/transparency issues; and identifies lawmaking stages that typically include closed door proceedings.
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9781612092621 | Nova Science Pub Inc, April 1, 2011, cover price $110.00
Product Description: An intensive study of Shakespeare's most ambitious and complex achievement in the historical mode. The book offers an account of the play's critical history from 1700 until the 1980s, deals with the aspects of Tudor history relevant to an understanding, and offers close readings of the text structured around what the author believes to be the play's three dominant concepts: time; truth; and grace...read more
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9780754671862 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: An intensive study of Shakespeare's most ambitious and complex achievement in the historical mode.
Product Description: Gaining access to government information is a perpetual concern of citizens. This is due in large part to the relationship between transparency and the issues of ethics, corruption, administrative malfeasance, and accountability. The last few years have proven that governmental transparency is a burgeoning academic subfield spurred on by contemporary political events and attention generated by the popular press...read more
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9780739127513 | Lexington Books, September 30, 2010, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Gaining access to government information is a perpetual concern of citizens.
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9780596804350 | 1 edition (Oreilly & Associates Inc, February 28, 2010), cover price $24.99
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