Regional Government

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-l...

In this Essentials Edition of Governing States and Localities, authors Kevin Smith and Alan Greenblatt retain the hallmarks of their bestselling in...

The first-ever look at all sixty-five Toronto mayors the good, the bad, the colourful, the rogues, and the leaders who have shaped the city.Spann...

First place winner in Educational Products at the 2021 International Cartographic Conference Maps are ubiquitous, yet maps are not made equally, no...

This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of South-South migration. It explores crucial migration themes such as migrant integrati...

This book updates scholarship related to media-state relations for the social media age. It presents a timely account of how states have engaged wi...

One of Americas most distinguished political theorists examines what happens when national politics enters a small New England town After the elect...

Colourful is not sufficient to describe Buddy Cianci. He is seen by many as a brilliantly successful politician and by others as a rogue. Full of s...

This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of worlds well-known urban concrete jung...

This book is the general report of the targeted poverty alleviation and elimination project of 100 villages, presenting the overall progress of pov...

In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or fact...

In the face of global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and food security, understanding and optimizing crop nutrition has nev...

Integrated Agriculture - An Approach for Sustainable Agriculture offers a comprehensive examination of a transformative agricultural paradigm aime...

The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American SouthDespite dramatic social transformations in the United State...

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Gefährdung des Körpers von Kindern in Wohlstandsgesellschaften. Die körperliche Unversehrtheit ist ein wichtiger T...

Over the last decades waves of deindustrialization have swept across European countries leaving potential consequences across cities, regions, and ...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Chinas drive for common prosperity from an insiders perspective. While philosophers and economists have lo...

This book proposes a radical reorganization of political and electoral power to address the current political imbalance between urban and rural pop...

Es bestand bis heute eine Forschungslücke innerhalb der Staatstätigkeitsforschung, da stets angenommen wurde, dass einzig Regierungsparteien Polici...

This book delves into democratic deficiencies in the United States federal government, especially those that disenfranchise minority communities. I...

Once in a Lifetime reveals the broad range of Elise Varner Winter's activities as first lady of Mississippi during the term of her husband, Governo...

This book provides an overview of the current state of minority-language media, from policy formulation to practice, in various contexts around the...

This book examines the strategies adopted by local governments to obtain excess construction land quotas in the face of the central governments str...

This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the worlds most progressive national constitution...

As a settler state, Canadas claims to sovereign control over territory are contested by Indigenous claims to land and to self-determination. Indige...

This book presents a study and analysis of the local governance (Panchayati Raj) in India. Local governance is a necessary condition for maturation...

Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provo...

Federalism is a very familiar form of government. It characterises the first modern constitution-that of the United States-and has been deployed by...

Northern Ireland's political system is dominated by an Irish Catholic nationalist versus British Protestant unionist faultline, based upon the long...

Brexit and the Northern Ireland Constitution considers the intersection of two processes: the complex and constitutional process of the United King...

A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies, describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history of surveillance of Mex...

In Banned, readers are taken on a journey through the intense racial politics surrounding the banning of Mexican American Studies in Tucson, Arizon...