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'I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart' Nigella LawsonFrom the ingeniously quick-witted J...

The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were effectively identical to what was offered to the Nixon admin...

Since Donald Trump's historic ascendance to the presidency, American politics have reached a boiling point. Social and economic issues, even nation...

Coming off of the 2020 election, THE BIDENS tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tre...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

Based on historical case studies in Chicago, John J. Betancur and Janet L. Smith focus both the theoretical and practical explanations for why neig...

This book is about governing well for the future. It investigates the nature of, and the conditions for, prudent long-term democratic governance in...

The neoliberal philosophy of fiscal austerity aligned with reduced regulation has transformed Chicago. As pursued by mayor Rahm Emanuel and his pre...

Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands - on left and right alike - propose to address the crisis through acts of tearing...

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century....

It wasn't long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court...

Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the...

American politics today is in an uproar: loud, angry, and bitter, bristling with us-versus-them. This is not exactly new. The history of our politi...

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformIn th...

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services,...

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services,...

Rising inequalities are a defining challenge of our times and a crucial obstacle to the realization of the SDGs. The need to accelerate steps towar...

Humankind is now at the crossroads of perhaps our most unique moment in our short history as a species on Earth. Given enough computing power, data...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home inSan Francisco, and plenty of...

Four decades ago, faced with a series of economic, political and social crises, business and government leaders in Australia and many other nations...

This book serves as a manual for students enrolled in semester-long US Senate simulations. The simulation tasks students with representing a partic...

This open access book contributes to the increasing trend toward greater public participation in decision-making in many areas of public life, part...

Local Governance in Japan is the first comprehensive exploration of local governance, examining the sustainability of local governments operating w...

Das Buch bietet eine vergleichende Darstellung der politischen Systeme der Staaten des östlichen Europa, d.h. aller Staaten in Mittel-, Ost- und Sü...

Global governance is no longer a matter of state cooperation or bureaucratic politics. Since the end of the cold war, advocacy groups have prolifer...

Tracing the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelations New Jerusalem, Yii-Jan Lin shows how apocalyptic narratives have been used to exclude un...