Indigenous people: governance and politics

Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960?

Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay.

This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies.

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change.

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change.

Americans valorize resistance to conformity.

Americans valorize resistance to conformity.

Increased flows of people, capital, and ideas across geographic borders raise urgent challenges to the existing terms and practices of politics.

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

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

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.

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.

In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the wayandhow to avoid them.

If there has been a unifying theme of Barack Obamas presidency, it is the inexorable growth of the administrative state.

"e;Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North.

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In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue.

America's complex system of multi-layered government faces new challenges as a result of rapidly changing economic, technological, and demographic trends.

In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion.

This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is "e;an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system"e; (Ibram X.

This completely updated and revised edition of Levy's highly regarded work examines the important changes in the economic world faced by communities since publication of the first edition in 1981.

Designed for local government managers and administrators, this pioneering work offers a clear and comprehensive guide to the use of strategic planning techniques in the public sector.

How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capitalFrom the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory.

How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capitalFrom the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory.