Regional Government

This quick reference brings together (and often corrects) large amounts of information from many diverse and hard-to-find resources. The work begin...

In Reapportionment and Redistricting in the West, Gary F. Moncrief brings together some of the best-known scholars in American state and electoral ...

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work...

Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 201011 uprising that forced the long-serving dic...

This book presents an ethnography of nature walks in a rural area of Parana state, southern Brazil. The event is organised by government agencies r...

Why do authoritarian regimes survive? How do dictators fail? What role do political institutions play in these two processes? Many of the answers t...

The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics wa...

Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing - more commonly known as fracking - was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of ...

Very rarely has peace and conflict studies been combined with public administration research. This book brings together theories from conflict reso...

2015 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the London boroughs, the thirty-two subdivisions of Greater London laid out to facilitate public services. Pr...

A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. Intelligently written an...

According to virtually all international corruption rankings, Sweden is one of the top performing countries with very few exposed incidents of corr...

Even as Donald Trumps election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as...

In Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Lynne A. Weikart dives into the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, offering an incisive analysis of Bloomberg's policies d...