Indigenous people: governance and politics

A timely and critical investigation into the way media operates in a so-called global age, presenting new empirical data on key sites of news production and crucially tying these findings to ongoing debates on globalization and democracy.

This book analyzes how the paradox of the poor often voting against their material interests emerged in India.

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

Free expression is under threat.

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

Volume One of the daily diaries of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

Women in public office are often assumed to "e;make a difference"e; for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts.

Winner of the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award, Canada at a Crossroads draws on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing.

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

Offers an examination of an African middle class, demonstrating how it is both bound to the state and alienated from it.

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

Privatization of local government is making headlines throughout the world.

Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents.

As governments attempt to focus more on service delivery, it has become apparent that little is known about the people who actually provide the services.

Civic Revolutionaries offers a practical guide for renewing the great American tradition of spirited, breakthrough community leadership.

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

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.

In the 1990s, the public sector has experienced the same kind of productivity pressures as has the private sector in most of the western countries.

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

This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state.

Federalism in Canada tells the turbulent story of shared sovereignty and divided governance from Confederation to the present time with three main objectives in mind.

During its 13 years of office, Labour's modernization agenda transformed the world of UK local government.

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

World Cities and Nation States takes a global perspective to show how national governments and states/provinces/regions continue to play a decisive, and often positive, partnership role with world cities.

'A powerful, beautiful book.

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.

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

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.

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

Looks at the nuances of land and resource politics and summarizes the long-standing land acquisition and mining debate.

A comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment liberalization in China and India, explaining how the return of these countries'' diasporas affects such liberalization.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance.

An inspiring and eye-opening memoir showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural and red-state voters, from Montana’s three-term democratic senatorSenator Jon Tester is a rare voice in Congress.

The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700.

The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act.

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

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.

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

In Stand on Guard, Stephanie Carvin sets out to explain the range of activities considered national security threats by Canadian security services today.

Much research has highlighted that sub-state entities (SSEs) - such as the German Lander, the Spanish autonomous communities, or the French regions - mobilise at the European level.

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

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

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018Even 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.

This book is based on an empirical research on the governance and reform of the contemporary township system in China.

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government.