Indigenous people: governance and politics

An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.

The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects.

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

First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada's history.

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas.

Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways.

Skeptics might rationalize that Mitt Romney received a scant 6 percent of the black vote in 2012 only because African Americans would naturally favor one of their own.

This volume presents a compact introduction to state-local relations as they have been, as they are now, and as they are likely to be in the near future, reviewing key aspects of state-local relations in the United States.

The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan.

This book conducts a detailed examination of the current form of the Hong Kong residential property regulatory system: the 2013 Residential Properties (Firsthand Sales) Ordinance (Cap 621).

The rise of China will undoubtedly be one of the great spectacles of the twenty-first century.

The third of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

A History of Political Thought is an accessible introduction to the history of political and economic thought; its main focus is the rise, and eventual consolidation, of modern market society.

The Global Promise of Federalism honours the life and work of Richard Simeon, one of Canada’s foremost experts on federalism.

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.

Sources of Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Behavior delves into the nature and importance of the relationship between sources of knowledge and entrepreneurial behavior, and should be of interest to both academics and policy-makers.

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

EU citizenship law is revealed to have been a tragedy thirty years in the making in the era of Brexit.

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.

This book presents a cutting-edge analysis of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation.

This detailed and informative study makes a timely contribution to a subject that has been the focus of much public discussion and debate in Ontario and elsewhere, namely the size and growth of the public sector.

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.

For this new edition, James Bickerton and Alain-G.

The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU.

In this attempt to determine the degree of power or influence possessed by the New Zealand private Member of Parliament, Robert Kelson has consulted parliamentary documents, the New Zealand press, and party documents.

China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically.

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

In From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide for new federal government appointees faced with the complex task of rebuilding institutions and transitioning to a new administration.

Local Government Economics progresses on from the author's earlier book, Public Sector Economics, addressing many of the same themes but at a more advanced level, and specifically within the context of local government.

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.

Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s.

A group of leading social science and management specialists show how management can be harnessed to improve public services.

The author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans explores the state’s unique mindset and culture.

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

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Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies.

Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared “I would rather live one more day as a lion than ten years a jellyfish.

Using a traditional historical-institutional approach, The Canadian Regime introduces students to the idea of the regime, which is a lens through which they can see how institutions interact with the basic principles of the political order.

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

Are the world's oldest democracies failing?

The Global Promise of Federalism honours the life and work of Richard Simeon, one of Canada’s foremost experts on federalism.

Canadian Federalism is Canada's leading text on federal institutions and processes.

Judicial review by Israel's Supreme Court over actions of Israeli authorities in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 is an important element in Israel's legal and political control of these territories.

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.