Indigenous people: governance and politics

With humour and humanity, Surviving City Hall reveals the workings of the municipal world based on author Donna Macdonald's nineteen years as a city councillor.

Democracy has never been a quick or easy process by which to get things done.

During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut.

The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization.

According to Adolph Caso, the dream behind We, the people.

In the United States, few issues are more socially divisive than the location of hazardous waste facilities and other environmentally harmful enterprises.

Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion.

Terry Sanford (1917-1998) was one of the most important public figures of the postwar South.

The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.

Deregulation continues to be a hot-button issues in the United States.

The American dream is fading: for nearly two decades, the economy has been performing below par, the quality of life has deteriorated, and the government has not confronted the public problems that concern citizens most.

What is the price of federalism?

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationThe Innovations in American Government Awards Program began in 1985 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to conduct a program of awards for innovations in state and local government.

A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas.

We live in an age of digital ID.

Insights into modern American politics and society from two of Floridas most influential public figuresWriting for the Public Good presents a selection of over 100 important opinion pieces from David R.

Despite Floridas current reputation as a swing state, there was a time when its Republicans were the underdogs against a Democratic powerhouse.

The verdicts have made headlines, but little is known about the inner workings of the court in which they were delivered.

Despite Floridas current reputation as a swing state, there was a time when its Republicans were the underdogs against a Democratic powerhouse.

Showing how "e;chaos candidate"e; Donald Trump scored critical victories in Florida in an election cycle that defied conventional political wisdom, this volume offers surprising insights into the 2016 Republican primary and presidential election.

Redrawing district lines is arguably the most polarizing of political activities in the United States today.

Representing half of the state's population, the U.

Barbara Olschner believes in her party's founding principles: lower taxes, less regulation, limited government, and individual accountability.

Likely to raise hackles among Democrats and Republicans alike, this dynamic history of modern Florida argues that the Sunshine State has become the political and demographic future of the nation.

Likely to raise hackles among Democrats and Republicans alike, this dynamic history of modern Florida argues that the Sunshine State has become the political and demographic future of the nation.

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.

Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government.

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "e;civil society"e; associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "e;mass organizations"e; or manifestations of state corporatism.

This book provides a detailed analytic history of direct legislation-the initiative and referendum-in California from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day.

This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences.

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact.

Civic Revolutionaries offers a practical guide for renewing the great American tradition of spirited, breakthrough community leadership.

When the landmark book Collaborative Leadership was first published in 1994, it described the premise, principles, and leadership characteristics of successful collaboration.

City-county separation is a form of governance in which rural and urban areas are formally separated.

A revealing look at how and why federal actors intervene in municipal politics.

The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways.

Exploring the conflict-ridden intergovernmental relations regarding federal land uses.

Federal property issues - especially those involving divestiture - create political disputes at all levels of government.

A rare glimpse into the world of public policy making in Canada's major cities.

Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents.

Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov.

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention.

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.

Evolving from a passionate desire to simply survive as a distinctive culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century to a more confident and expansive ideology since the Second World War, nationalism in Quebec has provoked intense debates within the province and in the rest of Canada over language, provincial powers, and the very meaning of the term nation in the contemporary world.

While local government is found in all federal countries, its place and role in the governance of these countries varies considerably.

He suggests that the mafia emerged only in some parts of Sicily and was never a single overarching criminal organization.

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.

Nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction, Rene Levesque and the Parti Quebecois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec history.

Le Canada n'avait pas connu de politicien de la trempe de Stephane Dion depuis Pierre Trudeau.

French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European.