Regional Government

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the...

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expec...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provi...

Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal ur...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and re...

Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representation Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old questi...

Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representation Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old questi...

This book compiles concerning important solutions for current and future global challenges to wellbeing. The purpose of this book is to provide hig...

The Science and Technology policy changes in post-Mao China cannot be complete without a historical narrative and analysis of Science and Technolog...

Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his bellybut probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had ex...

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities activities as borrowers. The early attempts to finance the building of t...

Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains co...

This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres. Economic, social and environmental uncertainty ...