Indigenous people: governance and politics

This wide-ranging book sets discussion of the various approaches to local government decentralisation in the context of the changing nature of public service management and the possibilities for new kinds of public involvement in government decision-making.

The comprehensively revised second edition of this successful text provides an up-to-date analysis of the changing world of local politics in Britain.

County-level fieldwork and unique data demonstrate how leadership and career incentives explain regional variation in China''s economic development.

County-level fieldwork and unique data demonstrate how leadership and career incentives explain regional variation in China''s economic development.

Gagliardone explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption in Africa for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science.

Gagliardone explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption in Africa for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science.

Why Democracy Deepens explains how socio-economic changes in India are shaping its politics to promote grassroots democracy.

This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.

Why Democracy Deepens explains how socio-economic changes in India are shaping its politics to promote grassroots democracy.

This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

This book examines postcolonial strategies for economic development in Africa from the 1960s to the present day.

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

This book examines postcolonial strategies for economic development in Africa from the 1960s to the present day.

Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa''s most populous country.

Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa''s most populous country.

This book explores decision making for members of Congress with state-level constituents weighing state versus national implementation and outcomes.

This book explores decision making for members of Congress with state-level constituents weighing state versus national implementation and outcomes.

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

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

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

The first major study of India''s regional parties which discusses why, when, and where they are electorally successful.

The first major study of India''s regional parties which discusses why, when, and where they are electorally successful.

Party Brands in Crisis offers a new way of thinking about how the behavior of political parties affects voters'' attachments.

Party Brands in Crisis offers a new way of thinking about how the behavior of political parties affects voters'' attachments.

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

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

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.

Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but may have the opposite effect in others.

Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but may have the opposite effect in others.

This book demonstrates why states'' behavior varies so widely across different international negotiations, analyzing multiple real-world cases in the process.

A comprehensive and engaging new history, charting Japan''s development from its origins through to the present day.

This book demonstrates why states'' behavior varies so widely across different international negotiations, analyzing multiple real-world cases in the process.

Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked.

Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked.

A comprehensive and engaging new history, charting Japan''s development from its origins through to the present day.

This book analyzes the threats to the property rights of business owners and investigates what makes these rights secure.

A rich, contextual analysis of the politics that inhibit the adoption of liberalizing reforms in Indonesia''s infrastructure sector.

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China''s rural governance over the past twenty years.

Examines the transformation of the Russian electricity system during post-Soviet marketization, arguing for a view of economic and political development as mutually constitutive.

This book discusses the historical context and policies responsible for the growth and development of Science and Technology in China.

This book describes the levels of unequal electoral participation in thirty-six countries worldwide.

This book analyzes the threats to the property rights of business owners and investigates what makes these rights secure.

A rich, contextual analysis of the politics that inhibit the adoption of liberalizing reforms in Indonesia''s infrastructure sector.

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China''s rural governance over the past twenty years.

This book describes the levels of unequal electoral participation in thirty-six countries worldwide.

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.

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.