Regional Government

In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat. This fascinati...

Finalist, 2021 Writers League of Texas Book Award For John Nance Cactus Jack Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: Youve got to bloody you...

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope: Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation invites and demonstrates actions by academics in relation to some of t...

Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration ha...

Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often ...

Over the last century, the scale of Canadas domestic disaster response system has grown significantly due to the countrys increased capacity for em...

Comparing Political Regimes provides a current and comprehensive empirical assessment of the worlds 195 sovereign states. Alan Siaroff analyses and...

Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as the dominant indicato...

Devoted to exploring elections as the central act in a democracy, Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters is animated by a...

Comparing Political Regimes provides a current and comprehensive empirical assessment of the worlds 195 sovereign states. Alan Siaroff analyses and...

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nati...

Local government plays a critical role in the lives of all citizens, from remote towns to capital cities. As the political legitimacy and importanc...

As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions politi...

There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that the pharmaceutical industry is both socially beneficial an...

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyze cybercrime at the...

Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old r...

Devoted to exploring elections as the central act in a democracy, Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters is animated by a...

The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand thi...

The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand thi...

Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a g...

There are many different ways to do political science research. This book takes a core question that motivates research in political science what ...

For thirty years, Alain-G. Gagnon has been one of the worlds leading experts on federalism and multinational democracies. In Minority Nations in th...

Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance. The author shows...

An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J. Trebilcock has spent over fifty years teaching and researching at the intersec...

Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne...

Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared I would rather live one m...

The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world. From th...

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between lev...

This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trad...

Examines black voters' relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial America using interviews...

African-American Males and the US Justice System of Marginalization provides an overview of the economic and social status of African-American male...

A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial id...

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of ...

The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, a...

Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver. This is applied ...

This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its lega...

Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisa...

What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is ...

Drawing on research across a wide range of European countries, this book analyzes the key issues at stake in developing long-term care systems for ...

Reproductive technology allows us to test embryos' genes before deciding whether to transfer them to a woman's uterus. Embryo selection raises man...

This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilisi...

The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. The most exceptional politica...

Examining the evolving responses to immigration, migrant integration and diversity of substate governments in Quebec, Flanders and Brussels, and Sc...

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in tha...

The Impact of 9-11 on Psychology and Education is the fifth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. M...

This study focuses upon governance and social organisation within the Chinese village and explores the extent to which farmers have autonomy vis-à-...

Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those s...