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Migration to new destinations in Europe and the United States has expanded dramatically over the past few decades. Within these destinations, there...

Why do special interests defeat the majority's preference in elections and legislation?

This text examines European languages and the communities using them, from differing points of view. The volume examines: the linguistic classifica...

Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy ...

The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy mandates of Congr...

The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups in shaping policy in contemporary I...

Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia’s attempts to incorporate behavioural insight...

Why do politicians frequently heed the preferences of small groups of citizens over those of the general public? Breaking new theoretical ground, B...

'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP f...

Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book...

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir,...

In Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?, Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel present a lively debate over the essential question...

A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former serv...

The trading relationship between the United States and China, though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development. Political animosit...

2020 Nebraska Book Award As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to wor...

With invective all the more deadly for its grace and wit, Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's magazine, presents a portrait of a feckless American est...

In the 1990s, numerous Latin American nations privatized their public pension systems. These reforms dramatically transformed the way these countri...

The decade 2004-14- when the two United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments, led by prime minister Manmohan Singh, were in office- was a remarka...

How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Steph...

On April 1, 1999, after decades of dreams and negotiations and years of planning, the Inuit-dominated territory of Nunavut came into being in Canad...

In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. How is it that we know ...

The worldwide expansion of nuclear energy has been accompanied by concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation. If sited in states that do not poss...

'Governments and Tourism' is a unique text that studies the general and specific tourism policies from central to local government. Through case st...

Migration to new destinations in Europe and the United States has expanded dramatically over the past few decades. Within these destinations, there...

Policy debates are often grounded within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In t...

Neighbourhood Houses draws on a five-year study to document and contextualize the neighbourhood house movement in Vancouver. Social disconnection h...

In the 1990s, numerous Latin American nations privatized their public pension systems. These reforms dramatically transformed the way these countri...

A detailed portrait of ideological consensus and conflict during the period that initiated the long decline of the welfare state.

Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor t...

Peronism, the Argentine political movement created by Juan Perón in the 1940's, has revolved since its inception around a personalistic leader, a s...

Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult education, explo...

From the AgAnda for Education in a Democracy Series Sponsored by the National Network for Educational Renewal Introduction by John I. Goodlad Th...

As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five childr...