Regional Government

The political debate over comprehensive immigration reform in the United States reached a pinnacle in 2006. When Congress failed to implement feder...

Michael Madigan rose from the Chicago machine to hold unprecedented power as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. In his thirty-six ye...

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

Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group...

Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group...

In the traditional financial system, profit and social solidarity have often represented a dichotomy hard to beat. In this scenario, the Microfinan...

Based on the views of teenagers across Europe and in the Far East, this book argues that we need to reconsider how we judge schools and what they a...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organise...

This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in ...

The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as sepa...

Gender quotas are a growing worldwide phenomenon, yet their variable implementation remains under-researched. Using the prominent case study of Fra...

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class ca...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate...

This book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state,...

What is the role of citizens in urban development decision-making processes? In answer of this globally relevant question, Aline Delatte offers a c...

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse researc...

This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women. Drawing on interview and online data, the book debunks stereotypical assum...

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

While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a domi...

This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensi...

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship ...

Under the themes of Justice, Participation and Social Exclusion contributors explore and discuss the impact on those targeted or excluded by import...

Developing a normative framework for evaluating non-state actors in the absence of formally binding obligations, this study is the first detailed h...

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, ...

Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to e...

Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labe...

By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific r...

While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and ...

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, p...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it ill...

This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canad...

This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental underst...

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying...

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...

Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the ...

This book covers arguments made by various sides of the political-religious divide from the past 30 years, showing what the actual differences are ...

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

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care as dom...

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological per...

The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories individ...

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. The volume brings tog...

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

The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to ...

This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration. Using ethnographic methods to illustrate an experiential theory...

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our ...