Regional Government

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institut...

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about partici...

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...