Regional Government

In the mid-Victorian period, when British international influence and power were at their height, concerns about local economic and social conditio...

Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic ...

Research on global norm diffusion and institutional transfer has often neglected the agency of the governed. This collection argues that limited st...

Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Russia, Kaz...

The study of the political economy of development in India is significant as India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries during the l...

Based on a variety of contemporary debates on federal theory Understanding Federalism and Federation honours Michael Burgess contribution to the st...

This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but unde...

Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most o...

This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany...

This book conducts a detailed examination of the current form of the Hong Kong residential property regulatory system: the 2013 Residential Propert...

Chris McNickle argues that New York City Mayor David Dinkins failed to wield the power of the mayor with the skill required to run the city. His Ta...

Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot of support from the United States federal and state governments in the name of en...

America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russias dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity...

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in con...

This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War, different forms of te...

Mafia-type organizations generate several distorting effects on the economy. In Italy their presence is endemic, and not only in Southern regions s...

This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of ...

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citiz...

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made int...

This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways o...

The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile,...

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and pub...