Regional Government

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and f...

The ambition of the Scottish Government is to create a wealthier and fairer nation. Following the devolution acts of 1998, 2012 and 2016, it has ex...

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

City Politics has received praise for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme that urban politics in the United States...

This book gives a brief review of current development models and governance of urban sharing platforms, and looks into the economic efficiency of a...

First published in 1956, Epitaph to Indirect Rule compares the old order of colonial government, represented by the Indirect Rule system, with the ...

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings. ...

Regionalization in general and regional integration in particular have taken place at a growing pace since the end of the Cold War, when states wer...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

What happens to the citizen when states and nations come into being? How do the different ways in which states and nations exist define relations b...

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...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international comm...

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power t...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of political institutions, the military establishment and political parties in Pakistan. It ...

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

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Ci...

This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots ...

China faces the problem of collaboration deficiency in local governance of metropolitan areas. With the evolution of regional spatial structure in ...

This volume contains articles examining freedom of information statutes, including those protecting government employees who expose official miscon...

This book focuses on three aspects of people-centred urbanisation: theoretical exploration, empirical investigation, and policy analysis. The book ...

This open access book provides a topical overview of education, development plans, the knowledge economy, and human development in the State of Qat...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of globa...

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates court. Written by a magistrate, this book uses differ...

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates court. Written by a magistrate, this book uses differ...

This book systematically explores the lives and varied experiences of older people in South Africa. Though a relatively youthful country, the share...

When Bob Miller arrived in Las Vegas as a boy, it was a small, dusty city, a far cry from the glamorous, exciting place it is today. Driving the fa...

This book introduces a quality of life index that compares the intra-urban particularities of 23 cities in the Argentine Republic. Integrating demo...

The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (the PAH, by its Spanish acronym) has left an important mark in the history of Spanish social movements...

This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms, women and develop...