Regional Government

When an obscure primary election met the culture wars In 1990, a suburban Chicago race for the Republican Party nomination for state representative...

«This timely and important book provides a critical look at borders and belonging. It illuminates the tensions and contradictions that often exist ...

Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newarks public school system  In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores ...

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adult...

This is a critical examination of the impact of sustained large-scale austerity cuts on local government communications in the UK. Budget constrain...

This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage f...

How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistanceTo cities, sports have never been just...

The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...

Inter-ethnic political integration is a major theoretical and practical problem which is increasingly prominent in the political reality of multi-e...

During the Qing dynasty (16441911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors ...

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