Regional Government

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

Throughout the early years of the 20th century, Virginia was viewed as a Republican state. Citizens in the Commonwealth had not voted for a Democra...

In Stand on Guard, Stephanie Carvin sets out to explain the range of activities considered national security threats by Canadian security services ...

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinct...

This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales ...

Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral...

Few can claim to affect the lives of every person in every community, but that is the legacy of local government engineers. Many saw service in bot...

Equality of opportunity is a contested concept. It evokes strong emotions from proponents and opponents alike. Enduring issues of inequality and di...

Offering a clear, concise, and highly original account of the effects of spending and other restrictions imposed on local authorities in the second...

An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economicsWith more than half of todays global GDP being produced by appro...

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinct...

Topical and up to date, Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World, Fifth Edition, presents an eminent scholar's perspect...

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

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope. Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a situation where your ability to manage them could ...

Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks `what are the fundamental pr...

This encyclopedia presents important research on Turkey. Some of the topics discussed herein include the prospects and challenges involved in Turke...

Starting as a civil uprising calling for liberal reforms in March 2011, the unrest in Syria rapidly deteriorated into a proxy-led armed conflict in...

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable...

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts from re...

Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities we encounter a peculiar...

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chro...

This is the first book that focuses on the entrenched, fundamental divergence between the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and Macau's Tribunal de Ú...

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

Loss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland . . . the economic fortunes of New Zeala...

Free expression is under threat. Social media and fake news, misinformation, and disinformation have prompted governments to propose new forms of...

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

The war is still raging. And [Gene Nichol]s still fighting. John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea chang...

An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political jou...

Ottoman Turkey''s First World War alliance with Germany provoked the first British invasion of Mesopotamia (Iraq), from India, in November 1914. A ...

This three-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on African politics ever produced. In over 100 peer-reviewed entri...

BCC approved (with endorsements)How is it that two broadly similar countries, neighbours with roughly equal populations and similar natural conditi...

This book deals with varied aspects of urban governance in the Indian state of Karnataka in general and its capital, Bengaluru, in particular. Give...