Regional, state and other local government Books

In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion...

Why Minority Governments Work tackles central questions: how well minority parliamentary governments govern; how they build majorities; and why some perform better than others. It offers an explanatory framework to account for governing capacity that...

This book is a collection of speeches and writings by Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, a prominent political figure from North Carolina. It includes additional notes and explanations for context. Readers interested in the political history of the United States...

Important Scarce Compilation of Mexican Laws Relating to Texas Translated and Published in 1839 Reprint of the only edition. With an introduction by Joseph W. McKnight describing its compilation, translation and publication. "An indispensable...

Illinois politics has a reputation for scandal and corruption, but Mary Louise Childs argues that there is more to the story. In this eye-opening book, she provides a detailed account of the people and processes behind the government of Illinois. From...

Forty-one different African states have adopted over fifty-seven new constitutions since 1989; yet few of these have become foundations for democracy. Failed transitions, subsequent instability, and violent conflict make it clear that democracy cannot...

This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. Hybrid sovereignty is used as an analytical tool to explain the survival of traditional patterns and forms of authority within...

State Recognition and Democractization in Sub-Saharan Africa explores the link between liberal-style democratization and state recognition of traditional authority in Sub-Saharan Africa. Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the...

Why are regional nationalisms threatening the old nations? This book explores examples such as why Scotland might become independent, why Wales wants more autonomy, and why Catalonia emphasizes its distinctive language and institutions but does not want...

In April of 2005 Shell sought an injunction in a Dublin court against residents of Erris in northwestern Republic of Ireland who were obstructing the laying of pipelines across their lands. On June 29, 2005 the court convicted and jailed five people for...

Debates on Nigeria's fiscal federalism preceded the gradual evolution of Nigeria into a colonial federal state in 1954. Issues of distribution of scarce but allocatable resources have often beclouded the desires of Nigerians to generate the resources...

Question: Which is the most malignant of the twenty defenses against confusion described in Lethal American Confusion?Answer: "Find-an-enemy-and-lose-your-confusion."Learn the dangers of this defense, as you survey over eighty areas of confusion in the...

Thinking About Thinking is a work of political sociology. The premise of the book is that one can create a general sociological theory of ideology and apply that general theory to the situation of the United States in the Twenty-First Century in...

Col. Edward Mandell House tried to remain anonymous, but eventually his vision of America, as represented in his novel "Philip Dru: Administrator" became known.  Why anonymous?  Perhaps because it conveyed precisely what one of his critics...

State terrorism, as a concept, has largely been operationalised out of terrorism literature. When a state uses violence systematically against unarmed victims, with the purpose of generating fear and communicating a message to a group beyond the...

In 1956, two years after the U.S. Supreme court unanimously outlawed legally imposed racial segregation in public schools, Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission. This was the executive agency established “to protect the sovereignty of...

This journal provides a detailed account of the proceedings of the Virginia State Senate during the previous year, including debates, legislative activities, and important decisions made by the senators. It offers a valuable resource for historians and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This book provides a balanced assessment of China's communist rule, its viability as well as its prospect of democracy. The People's Congresses and Governance in China presents a complex but convincing analysis of the transformation of governance in...

A company of scholars survey the spectrum of southern politics and politicians and attempt to answer the question "Is there a southern political tradition?"

Assembled by the New York State Legislature, this collection of documents offers a fascinating look into the workings of state government. Featuring proceedings, reports, and other published material, this book provides an invaluable resource for those...

For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.S. Constitution drafted in 1787. Yet constitutional debates at the state level open a window on how Americans, in different places and at different times, have chosen to...

"Culture wars" have turned American communities into ideological battlegrounds. When issues like gay rights, needle exchange programs, abortion clinic protests, and hate crime are at stake, the response of citizens is likely to be strong--and that of...

On September 24, 1830, Stephen G. Simmons, a fifty-year-old tavern keeper and farmer, was hanged in Detroit for murdering his wife, Levana Simmons, in a drunken, jealous rage. Michigan executed only two people during the fifty-year period, from 1796 to...

A fantastic academic study of what really made the Roman empire so successful, administration. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing...

Michigan, like most of the states formed from the old Northwest, originated as a state of farmers, fishermen, and lumbermen and remained so until Detroit emerged as a major industrial center at the turn of the twentieth century. The growth of the...

A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government.

The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces...

This book reexamines classical issues in the relationship between indifferent forms of democratization, civil, political and social-in Chile's transition to democracy during the 1990's. It highlights the lasting institutional limits tosocial...

The Mississippi Secession Convention is the first full treatment of any secession convention to date. Studying the Mississippi convention provides a wonderful glimpse into why southern states seceded, how they did so, and the effects of such action...