Regional Government Policies

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...