Regional Government

Examines how Kurdish alternative politics and state building result in new forms of governmentality, justice and gender regimes Based on 202 inter...

This volume is unique because of its focus on small states. There are many studies on civil society and social movements, but none that specificall...

This book fills an important gap in our understanding of Scottish local government in the dynamic new context of the Scottish Parliament. It provid...

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, fa...

This book fills an important gap in our understanding of Scottish local government in the dynamic new context of the Scottish Parliament. It provid...

Government-by-proxy and intergovernmental relations profoundly affect the public administration of foster care. Using examples from foster care sys...

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and ...

Governing American communities becomes ever more challenging in the contemporary political and economic environment. People in communities seek to ...

Urban regime theory has gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics in the United States and its use in comparative cross-nation...

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, a...

How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made...

This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation ...

Governing American communities becomes ever more challenging in the contemporary political and economic environment. People in communities seek to ...

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, a...

This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. The authors argue that some services are only ap...

This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation ...

This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. The authors argue that some services are only ap...

Urban Politics After Apartheid presents an understanding of gendered urban politics in South Africa as an interactive process. Based on long-term f...

A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining publ...

The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. F...

"This is the book that political science professors and editorial writers should read before they write their learned sermons about the evils of Ta...

Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofo...

Designed to showcase current issues of interest, Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, Volume 2 isthe second reader consisting of updated chapters from...

Inclusion in the City explores inclusion and exclusion in the context of policy and practice in one English city - Birmingham. Here, a commitment t...

While local government is found in all federal countries, its place and role in the governance of these countries varies considerably. In some coun...

This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu...

Centered on the urban workplace, the danwei (workunit) has been the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. Not only wa...

From 1891 to 1941, Santiago—Chile’s capital and its largest and most important city—experienced rapid urbanization, industrialization, and administ...

Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating an...

Since the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, the question of Quebec’s status within Confederation has held centre stage in the Canadian unity debate. C...

As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxious...

Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating an...

Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban r...