This book demonstrates why states'' behavior varies so widely across different international negotiations, analyzing multiple real-world cases in the process.
Gagliardone explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption in Africa for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science.
Demonstrates how specific dimensions of democracy - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development and well-being.
First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada's history.
In Stand on Guard, Stephanie Carvin sets out to explain the range of activities considered national security threats by Canadian security services today.
San Antonio boasts one of the countrys fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck.
"e;Think of the federal government as a gigantic insurance company (with a side line business in national defense and homeland security) which only does its accounting on a cash basis-only counting premiums and payouts as they go in and out the door.
The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state of the art analyses of the situation of the nation-state as it is developing all over the world in the new millenium.
In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations.
Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy.
The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.
This book argues that local and global religious social forces are primarily responsible for the social developments in communities in the global south.
Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern:
Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung
die Gerichtsbarkeit
Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw.
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 set of three overarching questions: Why do some citizens vote while others do not?
Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of democratic politics and strategic interactions between local authoritarians and national democratic leaders.
In this attempt to determine the degree of power or influence possessed by the New Zealand private Member of Parliament, Robert Kelson has consulted parliamentary documents, the New Zealand press, and party documents.
The ALN gained widespread business, popular, and church support by promising francophones both control of a modern Quebec economy and preservation of the traditional social order.
Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "e;dreams of nation,"e; from the imperial dream of New France to the separatist dream of the 1980 referendum.
