Indigenous people: governance and politics

Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth.

Covering the impact of austerity, Brexit, the Scottish Independence Referendum and the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, this book discusses how wider national developments shape and are shaped by the process of devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, assessing its impact on politics, policy and public administration.

This book explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.

Applying insights from cutting-edge theories of international cooperation, this study brings new understanding to China''s approach to contemporary global challenges.

When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city.

The discipline of international relations offers much insight into why violent power transitions occur, yet there have been few substantive examinations of why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics.

Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth.

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.

This book guides readers to the mastery of a wide array of practical analytic techniques useful to local governments.

Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service recreates the white-collar world of middle-class workers from the Civil War to 1900.

The authors not only provide an in-depth analysis of the interplay of interests and ideology behind the People's movement but also establish relationships between the emergent political culture that bolstered that movement and the Whig and Democratic parties of the later second-party system.

As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions - political, economic, intellectual, and legal - hold considerable sway over constitutional matters, leaving less room for the participation of ordinary people.

Covering the impact of austerity, Brexit, the Scottish Independence Referendum and the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, this book discusses how wider national developments shape and are shaped by the process of devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, assessing its impact on politics, policy and public administration.

China, India and Japan are among the biggest players in the global economy today.

As migration alters the southern political landscape, partisan battle lines will be drawn between the Democrat-leaning areas of growth and the increasingly Republican areas of decline and stagnation.

State and local government fiscal systems have increasingly become vulnerable to economic changes.

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis's transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book.

The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada.

This book examines social transformation during the Tang-Song period by focusing on the emergence and development of the "e;society of moneyed elite"e; in ancient China.

This book shows how police and politicians in Latin America informally regulate drug markets using corruption and violence.

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada.

The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada.

Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism.

Turkey is a country with a history of multiparty electoral competition going back to 1950, longer than many other nations in the world.

This book compares the relatively peaceful relationship between the Berbers and the Moroccan state with the violent relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state.

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.

Femocratic Administration examines the gendered nature of public administration through a study of the Ontario Women’s Directorate (OWD) between 1985 and 2000.

World Cities and Nation States takes a global perspective to show how national governments and states/provinces/regions continue to play a decisive, and often positive, partnership role with world cities.

Latin America is caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States.

Discusses why and how the Egyptian judiciary was critically important in bringing down two vastly different regimes in three years.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker.

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis's transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book.

The impact of legacies and memories on social movements has been paid only limited attention in what is now a sizeable literature.

Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians.

Television host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots.

Distance, in its traditional sense, connotates "e;estrangement"e; and "e;division"e;.

Der unabhängige Denker Gustave Le Bon analysiert in diesem Buch aus dem Jahr 1910 die "Torheit der Regierenden" (Barbara Tuchman) mit einem umfassenden Blick in die Geschichte der Völker und die Zeit kurz vor dem Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs.

When General Porfirio Diaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth-though "e;progress"e; came at the cost of democracy.

This book studies representation in Chinese local congresses, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and quantitative surveys of congressmen and women.

This book changed the way we view "e;politics"e;.