Regional Government

In Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond, Barry S. Levitt answers urgent questions about executive power i...

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

A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution.Most Americans today would not think of their local ...

This book analyses the development and use of mathematical models in public health research and policy. By introducing a life cycle metaphor, the a...

Higher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their highe...

Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever - into exurbs and boomburbs miles from anywhere, in big houses ...

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

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats' so-called blue wall, had been so effectiv...

On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the De...

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comp...

This second edition of the authoritative Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government brings together in one volume some of the best available scho...

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...

This book offers a comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization in China and India and explains how the re...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and t...

This book uses a multi-method approach to explain why recent Iowa governors have been able to stay in office significantly longer than their peers....

State development in Africa is risky, even life-threatening. Heads of state must weigh the advantage of promoting political and economic developmen...

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

Do political leaders matter for development in Africa? Political leaders south of the Sahara have taken centre stage since countries in the region ...

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

This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a plague results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those wi...

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'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect ...

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

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and ...

This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethni...

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This ...

What determines Europe's migrant policies and where does the EU fit into this picture? This book is a comparative analysis of the impact of the EU,...

Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the ins...

This book explores the origins of the so-called 'punitive turn' in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates h...

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new appr...

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

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global...

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican p...

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...

Foregrounding religious, racialized and gendered disputes, Decision Making and Controversies in State Supreme Courts examines state supreme court d...

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...