Regional Government

Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks `what are the fundamental pr...

This encyclopedia presents important research on Turkey. Some of the topics discussed herein include the prospects and challenges involved in Turke...

Starting as a civil uprising calling for liberal reforms in March 2011, the unrest in Syria rapidly deteriorated into a proxy-led armed conflict in...

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable...

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts from re...

Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities we encounter a peculiar...

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chro...

This is the first book that focuses on the entrenched, fundamental divergence between the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and Macau's Tribunal de Ú...

Even as Donald Trumps election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as...

Loss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland . . . the economic fortunes of New Zeala...

Free expression is under threat. Social media and fake news, misinformation, and disinformation have prompted governments to propose new forms of...

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press''s mission to seek out and cultivate th...

The war is still raging. And [Gene Nichol]s still fighting. John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea chang...

An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political jou...

Ottoman Turkey''s First World War alliance with Germany provoked the first British invasion of Mesopotamia (Iraq), from India, in November 1914. A ...

This three-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on African politics ever produced. In over 100 peer-reviewed entri...

BCC approved (with endorsements)How is it that two broadly similar countries, neighbours with roughly equal populations and similar natural conditi...

This book deals with varied aspects of urban governance in the Indian state of Karnataka in general and its capital, Bengaluru, in particular. Give...