Regional Government Policies

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 ...

Arguing that our laws are skewed to benefit entrenched homeowners, at the expense of newcomers and lower-income households, this book advocates bot...

To what extent does participation in one particular domain of public life lead to wider participation in other areas? Through the use of an unprece...

Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (I...

Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UKs four systems, but what impact hav...

A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.   Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens c...

This volume focuses on the relationship between officers and local communities in premodern Europe. Its starting point is that communities played a...

«This timely and important book provides a critical look at borders and belonging. It illuminates the tensions and contradictions that often exist ...

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adult...

The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...

Dublins teeming slums, long regarded as the worst in Europe, were teetering on the brink of structural and sanitary public catastrophe during the e...

The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using the example of the...

When Michael Bloomberg handed over the city to Bill de Blasio, New York and the country were experiencing record levels of income inequality. De Bl...