Indigenous people: governance and politics

Examines Soviet Ukraine''s long transition from war to ''peace'' after World War II, and the bitter struggle for land, food and power.

This book argues that local and global religious social forces are primarily responsible for the social developments in communities in the global south.

Winner: 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Book AwardThis is a book about forces challenging the continued integrity of Canada, one of the world's oldest and most admired democracies.

Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed.

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

The search for a robust balance of power is a continuous challenge for multilevel political system.

This book asks: are politics local?

Analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.

The Mississippi Secession Convention is the first full treatment of any secession convention to date.

Community visioning and strategic planning programs have become increasingly important in recent years as local governments in rural areas have searched for innovative ways to revitalize their local economies or manage population growth.

Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland.

Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.

This is a report on political conditions in ten widely differing states judged, for one reason or another, to be crucial, typical, or otherwise important.

This book takes an in-depth look at the enormous challenges facing UK public services and considers what might be done to resolve them.

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.

In a book that is as certain to be as controversial as it is meticulously researched, a former special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that the U.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century.

This book argues that the combination of a growing middle class and intense political competition leads local politicians to opt out of clientelism.

Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies?

This book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.

“What Would Martin Say?

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?

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?

The war is still raging.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

For thirty years, Alain-G.

How does the ideal state look like?

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.

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy.

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

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

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

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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting inside account of the unprecedented rise to power and unmatched political legacy of the first woman Speaker of the House, by award-winning journalist Molly Ball Nancy Pelosi's opposition to Donald Trump has made her an icon of the Resistance, featured in viral memes clapping sardonically at the president or ripping up his State of the Union address.

This book examines why Western European states have recently introduced citizenship tests, integration courses, contracts, and oath ceremonies.

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

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.

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

This book investigates the experiences of women city councilors in India.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

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

New York remains the Empire State.

Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies?

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.