Indigenous people: governance and politics

Covering the impact of austerity, Brexit, the Scottish Independence Referendum and the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, this book discusses how wider national developments shape and are shaped by the process of devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, assessing its impact on politics, policy and public administration.

How was it possible for an indigenous people in the middle of the Amazon to protect their life and territory from oil exploitation?

The British monarchy has been through turbulent times of late.

State and local governments are at a financial crossroads.

In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states.

Local and regional government information is essential to government workers, corporate researchers, students, and many other citizens, but finding a city ordinance or a county report can be a daunting experience.

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.

In einer Welt, die von Gewohnheiten und vorgefertigten Denkmustern geprägt ist, wagt ›Die Erfindung einer anderen Welt‹ einen mutigen Schritt hinaus in das Unbekannte.

The first study of a neglected tradition of participatory democracy in modern India.

The framers of the U.

The first study of a neglected tradition of participatory democracy in modern India.

Saints and Misfitsa William C.

Each title in the Religions of the World series explores the main beliefs, practices, and places of worship of a major world religion.

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.

"…Julio Franco nos regala otro libro excelente, involucrado en la solución de problemas públicos reales.

In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities.

This completely revised third edition of Smith's classic text on Arizona politics and public policy brings its examination up to date through the most recent election cycle.

"Una retratista filosa y valiente capaz de llevarnos hasta el límite y más allá para desnudar a nuestros políticos y reducirlos a risa o a espanto".

An excellent resource for students of Native American women's history, Wilma Mankiller provides an overview of contemporary federal Indian policy and explores how Mankiller negotiated the relationship between the Cherokee Nation and the United States in the late 20th century.

The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M.

In What if there were no whites in South Africa?

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.

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.

Si observamos de cerca las manifestaciones sociales de octubre de 2019 en Latinoamérica podremos ver que los pueblos originarios tuvieron una presencia protagónica.

"El problema para Bergoglio y para la cultura económica del catolicismo argentino es la prosperidad.

Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy.

Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the third in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

One of America's most distinguished political theorists examines what happens when national politics enters a small New England town After the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020, many citizens looked at the economic and cultural divisions that were causing deep disruptions in American politics and asked, "e;What is happening to us?

North Carolina had a big, unfortunate headstart on now-common attacks on democratic institutionsthe lessons learned as NC makes its way out of the chaos can benefit other states.

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018

Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool.

How does the ideal state look like?

Sometime after dark on March 27, 2010, Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was found dead next to his four-wheeler on the grounds of his ranch on the Arizona-Mexico border.

"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.

This book changed the way we view "e;politics"e;.

Journey back a century and a half back in time to one of the most significant meetings in US history, without which more than half of the American population wouldn't be allowed to vote.

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

The Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) have come to stay in India.

An excellent resource for students of Native American women's history, Wilma Mankiller provides an overview of contemporary federal Indian policy and explores how Mankiller negotiated the relationship between the Cherokee Nation and the United States in the late 20th century.

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors.

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors.

This anthology shares the experiences and perspectives of Rust Belt progressives in the era of Trump.