Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> American Government - State

This book explores what happened to the homelands - in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace - after the fall of apartheid. This research contributes to understanding the multiple configurations that currently exist in areas formerly declared -homelands- or -Bantustans-. Using the concept of frontier zones, the homelands emerge as areas in which the future of the South African postcolony is being renegotiated, contested and remade with hyper-real intensity. This is so because the many fault lines left over from apartheid (its loose ends, so to speak) - between white and black; between...

Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries, Japan's are distinguished by their ubiquity, scope of activities, and very high participation rates, making them important for the study of society and politics. Most Japanese belong to one local neighborhood association or another, making them Japan's most numerous civil society organization, and one that powerfully shapes governance outcomes in the country. And, they also often blur the state-society boundary, making them theoretically intriguing.

Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan...

Regulating Judicial Elections provides the first full accounting of the efficacy and consequences of such rules. C. Scott Peters re-frames debates over judicial elections by shifting away from all-or-nothing claims about threats to judicial independence and focusing instead on the...

Regulating Judicial Elections provides the first full accounting of the efficacy and consequences of such rules. C. Scott Peters re-frames debates over judicial elections by shifting away from all-or-nothing claims about threats to judicial independence and focusing instead on the...

In 1996, Utah celebrated its one hundredth year of statehood. In 1992, anticipating that important centennial, new welcome signs appeared along the state's highways. The signs read "Utah, Still the Right Place," and they provided the inspiration for the title of this book.

Still the Right Place deals with the last half of Utah's first century of statehood. Each of its seven chapters covers the administration of one of the state's governors, beginning at the end of World War II while Herbert B. Maw was governor and ending in 1995 during Mike Leavitt's first term. Each chapter...

We hear the term "sustainability" everywhere today; in the context of city management, the term is most used to mean environmental sustainability or being able to thrive in a world facing climate change. In this book, however, the term means something more extensive--how cities can sustain themselves during climate change but also through the many other challenges facing the modern world, including in budgeting and finance, human resource management, public safety, and infrastructure to name but a few. This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of urban administration today, from...

Urban Governance Under the Ottomans focuses on one of the most pressing topics in this field, namely the question why cities formerly known for their multiethnic and multi- religious composition became increasingly marked by conflict in the 19th century.

This collection of essays represents the result of an intense process of discussion among many of the authors, who have been invited to combine theoretical considerations on the question sketched above, with concrete case studies based upon original archival research. From Istanbul to Aleppo, and from the Balkans to...

Imagine what it's like to effectively organize and develop a political party with over 65 million (65m) members - that's bigger than the total populations of many of the world's most developed countries such as the UK (65m), France (64m), and Australia (24m).

Then imagine that, if the Communist Party of China (CPC) was a country, its population would rank as the 21^st biggest in the world. In addition to developing and organizing its 65m party members, it had to embed them among a population of 1.38bn people so that the party could lead and guide the world's biggest...