Regional Government

Foregrounding religious, racialized and gendered disputes, Decision Making and Controversies in State Supreme Courts examines state supreme court d...

21st Century Urban Race Politics begins by offering a twenty-first-century understanding of minority representation in historically majority-Caucas...

The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan illustrates how state policies concerning the control of land can cause local conflicts to esca...

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...

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 ...