Regional Government Policies

An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J. Trebilcock has spent over fifty years teaching and researching at the intersec...

The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world. From th...

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between lev...

This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trad...

Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisa...

This study focuses upon governance and social organisation within the Chinese village and explores the extent to which farmers have autonomy vis-à-...

Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those s...

What does local self-government look like in the absence of sovereignty? From the beginning of its occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israel has ...

Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; ve...

How is peace built at the local level? Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, th...

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler it does.Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarch...

It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little rese...

Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; ve...

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American exper...

Chinas spectacular achievements in agriculture in recent decades whereby it has succeeded in feeding some 20% of the worlds population with 9% of ...

Systemic Islamophobia in Canada presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for ...

Addressing one of the defining social issues of our time, The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America explores how and why Latin America, a cultu...

There is growing interest in Israel's political system from all parts of the world. This Handbook provides a unique comprehensive presentation of p...

While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we kno...

Attitudes towards charismatic animals such as tigers, lions, bears and wolves vary greatly and change over time, resulting in bitter political deba...

Written for practitioners and practitioners-in-training of education development, this book reviews education issues in developing countries and pr...

Citizens' participation, especially participatory budgeting, has spread out in both continents, even if the context is very different. This book of...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. The post-Brexit envir...

21st Century Urban Race Politics begins by offering a twenty-first-century understanding of minority representation in historically majority-Caucas...

The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan illustrates how state policies concerning the control of land can cause local conflicts to esca...

Africa is changing and it is easy to overlook how decentralization, democratization, and new forms of illiberalism have transformed federalism, pol...

This accessible book is about local democracy, civic engagement, political participation and community in Britain. It rejects the many pessimistic ...

Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of...

These essays by no means cover all areas of interest in long-term care programs, but they offer new insights (and intriguing questions for future r...

A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics. This is the first textbook which breaks free from the conventional approaches that revolve around th...

A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics. This is the first textbook which breaks free from the conventional approaches that revolve around th...

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustra...

How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates ...