Indigenous people: governance and politics

A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tell you: Yes, you can!

How, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, do Maoist rebels in India quit an ongoing insurgency without getting killed?

In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development.

Vers le milieu du douzieme siecle un clerc inconnu se faisant appeler Turpin, archeveque de Reims, ecrivit une 'histoire' de 'Charlemagne et Roland' en latin.

Students in state and local politics courses frequently have low levels of prior knowledge about the topic and even lower levels of engagement.

Students in state and local politics courses frequently have low levels of prior knowledge about the topic and even lower levels of engagement.

An examination of how the (hyper)local is the locus of real changeMany of America's downtowns, waterfronts, and innovation districts have experienced significant revitalization and reinvestment in recent years, but concentrated poverty and racial segregation remain persistent across thousands of urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods.

This Element explores the government response to protests in China, and its consequences for the mobilization of collective action.

This book answers the important question - how does China maintain authoritarian rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms?

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965.

A study of ideas, their substance, origins and salience, in government decision-making during credibility crises in India and developing democracies.

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

In No Justice, No Peace David Rapaport uses detail, insights, and anecdotes from over 150 interviews - with picket line captains, local executives, union leadership, journalists, mediators, and union and management negotiators among others - to provide an insider's view of the strike and its political and economic contexts, often told in the strikers' own voices.

In the 1980s, a nationwide reform movement sprang up in opposition to "e;tracking,"e; the controversial practice of schools grouping students by ability and organizing curriculum by level of difficulty.

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Applying insights from cutting-edge theories of international cooperation, this study brings new understanding to China''s approach to contemporary global challenges.

Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens.

Social democrats have always understood that business will act differently if the rules governing economic life are changed: it is not because they share a commitment to gender equality that Scandinavian employers pay women and men wages that are virtually equal -- they do so because those are the rules.

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

This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy.

Privatization of local government is making headlines throughout the world.

State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

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

This book explores decision making for members of Congress with state-level constituents weighing state versus national implementation and outcomes.

An examination of how the (hyper)local is the locus of real changeMany of America's downtowns, waterfronts, and innovation districts have experienced significant revitalization and reinvestment in recent years, but concentrated poverty and racial segregation remain persistent across thousands of urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods.

The authors not only provide an in-depth analysis of the interplay of interests and ideology behind the People's movement but also establish relationships between the emergent political culture that bolstered that movement and the Whig and Democratic parties of the later second-party system.

Unser Wissen über Brasilien beschränkt sich oft auf festgetretene Klischees: Strand, Samba, Fußball und leider auch Abholzung des Regenwalds, Gewalt, Korruption und Rassismus.

Drawing on long-term fieldwork in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book studies the war-time social processes during the civil war and their long-term legacy on the constitution of Nepali society.

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.

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 explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.

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

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

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America.

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

The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M.

Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes.

During the Qing dynasty (16441911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors -- those in charge of these increasingly influential administrative units -- playing key roles.

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.

Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes.

Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.

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

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

Contemporary debate over the legacy of racial integration in the United States rests between two positions that are typically seen as irreconcilable.

The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M.