Product Description: We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives...read more

“Hostile Takeover is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how individual freedom can prevail in a world of decentralized information. Matt Kibbe and this book provide us all with a roadmap on how to take back our lives, liberties, and responsibilities. ”—Glenn BeckMatt Kibbe, the high-profile leader of FreedomWorks—who Geraldo Rivera calls “a warrior for the cause of limited government”—now offers an intelligent, aggressively argued attack on the American federal government machine in Washington, D.C. In Hostile Takeover, Kibbe, co-author of the #1 bestseller Give Us Liberty, provides a blueprint for “resisting centralized government’s stranglehold on America,” in order to return the nation to the more workable system our Founding Fathers originally intended.

Product Description: America finds itself in a moment of profound and complex governing challenges. A crushing recession followed by a feeble recovery have shaken the foundations of our financial and economic system. We are struggling with the exploding costs of health-care and entitlement spending, and fiscal disaster looms as our society ages...read more

Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington

Product Description: America's complex system of multi-layered government faces new challenges as a result of rapidly changing economic, technological, and demographic trends. An aging population, economic globalization, and homeland security concerns are among the powerful factors testing the system's capacity and flexibility...read more

Demonstrating how man's belief in growth has created a continuing succession of crises, Sale examines ways to scale down our institutions

Product Description: In this hard-hitting political wake-up call, the authors demonstrate how modern Americans have been robbed of many freedoms promised to them by the founding fathers in the Constitution. Now the government�s swollen bureaucracy threatens middle-class Americans through larcenous taxation, an inept �politically-correct� educational system, and privacy-violating federal regulations...read more

Product Description: Explore significant—but often-overlooked—aspects of aging policy! This unique addition to the literature on aging policy will help you understand devolution—the decentralizing of service provision—and the roles that state/local government and private organizations now play in addressing the needs of our aging population...read more

Outlines a philosophy of government in which the state provides aid, inspiration, and direction to faith-based charities in their efforts to assist the poor and distressed, allowing them to offer effective social programs in their communities.

Product Description: Exploring the consequences of federal devolution on state budgets, this work deals with three major areas of concern: the effect of moving large numbers of welfare recipients into labour markets; the planned federal reforms in the health care field; and trends in federal aid. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributors to this volume analyze the impetus, nature and impact of state devolution in the United States. While debates over such changes typically centre on economic, political, and social change, the contributors shift the debate to an examination of the complex geographical implications of devolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses how government now costs less and works better

Product Description: The centralisation of environmental regulation has led to inflexibility on America's federal government as it attempts to respond to various problems. This analysis of current policies proposes a restructuring of the environmental regulatory authority to lead to better environmental enforcement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization...read more

A platform summation by the libertarian candidate for president states that big government is ineffective and behind most of American society's ills and proposes a redefined government that will improve such areas as education, violence, and taxes.

Product Description: The new federalism of the 1980's, instead of providing greater economic efficiency in social, cultural, educational and health services, has resulted in even greater geographical disparities in the provision of these services. The public sector has become to resemble the locally autonomous, atomistic and fragmented nonprofit sector...read more

Product Description: Book by Chickering, A. Lawrence (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the decentralization movement, describes its leaders and innovative communities, and discusses its practical, economic, and political aspects