Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Corruption & Misconduct

In unprecedented times when American values are at stake P.L. Thomas provides a moral compass for so many of the people who expected the first woman to become President of the United States. Thomas argues that this assumption grossly underestimated the rise of Donald Trump, which was an inevitable culmination of who the U.S. truly is as a people.

In a series of brilliantly written essays Trumplandia examines how a reality TV star as president represents post-truth America as a failed democracy and as a country still deeply poisoned by racism, classism, sexism, and...

In United We Stand Divided We Fall Garn Press has gathered together essays by great scholars and renowned teachers who oppose the direction in which President Trump is leading the country. These are essays, to quote George Lakoff, which frame American values accurately and systemically day after day, telling truths by American majority moral values.

These are essays of protest against and resistance to Trump’s presidency, to his billionaire cabinet, to the privileging in the White House of white supremacists, the promulgation of “alternate facts”,...

Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming?

Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists. Kevin Taft, a former leader of the opposition in Alberta, brings a fresh perspective through the insight he gained as an elected politician who had an insider's eyewitness view of the role of the oil industry. His answer, in brief: The oil industry has captured key democratic institutions in...

With reportedly over USD100 billion lost annually through graft and illicit practices, combatting corruption in Africa has been challenging. However, laws and policies at the continental, regional and national levels have been promulgated and enacted by African leaders. These initiatives have included the establishment of anti-corruption agencies mandated to tackle graft at national level, as well as coordinate bodies at regional and continental levels to ensure the harmonisation of normative standards and the adoption of best practices in the fight against corruption. Yet, given the...

Die Zwangsvermahlung findet man in sehr unterschiedlichen Landern, Gesellschaften oder aber auch in unterschiedlichen Religionsgemeinschaften wieder. Meist steht diese zwar mit den kulturellen Traditionen in Zusammenhang, kommt jedoch in den unterschiedlichsten Bereichen...

In September, 2000, a dentist was killed while riding his bicycle at 5:45 a.m. on the outskirts of a major South Carolina city. The police fed a story to the press, but an unexpected and unwanted witness appeared to the wife of the deceased, and created havoc for the authorities. This is the story of how law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, including a former SC Supreme Court Chief Justice, committed criminal acts as they attempted to coerce, threaten, and intimidate an innocent man into admitting his vehicle was the vehicle which killed the dentist. The initial suspect...