Regional Government Policies

Authoritarian regional organizations have experienced a remarkable rise in numbers and importance. Autocracies across the world have joined organiz...

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

Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe. Feat...

By the year 2050, the population of the United States is projected to be approximately half white and half non-white. Yet the knowledge of child d...

Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impac...

Based on a variety of contemporary debates on federal theory Understanding Federalism and Federation honours Michael Burgess contribution to the st...

This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways o...

The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile,...

Brexit and the Northern Ireland Constitution considers the intersection of two processes: the complex and constitutional process of the United King...

Anticipatory Governance is the systemic process of future shaping built on the understanding that the future is not a continuation of the past or p...

This book considers some of the ways in which time appears and seemingly does it work through moments of crisis. What can different concepts of t...

This book confronts one of the central questions of political science: how people choose to accept or not to accept particular governments. In cont...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

The author writes from the experience of thirty years working in the Jerusalem municipality, including 21 years as a public official and ten years ...

This book looks at the governmental interregnum from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is a narrative of ...

The Mediterranean basin holds immense geostrategic importance, linking Asia, Europe, and Africa. The Eastern Mediterranean, especially in regard to...

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 ...

A state-by-state analysis of the expansion of medical marijuana access in the United States As of 2023, thirty-eight states and the District of Col...

A state-by-state analysis of the expansion of medical marijuana access in the United States As of 2023, thirty-eight states and the District of Col...

This book delves into the critical issue of ensuring the long-term financial viability of local governments in the diverse region of Southern Afric...

Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about ur...

Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeas...

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...

The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...

The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of socia...

The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population a...

Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often ...

Over the last century, the scale of Canadas domestic disaster response system has grown significantly due to the countrys increased capacity for em...

Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as the dominant indicato...

There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that the pharmaceutical industry is both socially beneficial an...

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyze cybercrime at the...

The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand thi...

The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand thi...

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...