Category Archives: State & Local Government

State and Local Fiscal Policy: Thinking Outside the Box? (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance)

The last few decades have presented a new set of challenges and opportunities for public finances. Demographic trends have put substantial pressure on non-discretionary public expenditures such as health care, while legal challenges have put pressure on education financing. The … Continue reading

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Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

Hobbes’s extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in … Continue reading

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Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party’s Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era

China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime’s imperative to control them politically. Landry explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages local officials in … Continue reading

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The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth’s Future

Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, … Continue reading

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Local Politics and Democratization in Russia (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, … Continue reading

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Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly (Theories of Institutional Design)

Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of … Continue reading

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Contemporary American Federalism: The Growth of National Power

Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.

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Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives)

Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature … Continue reading

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Her Turn: Why It’s Time for Women to Lead in America

It’s time for women to take charge, says successful businesswoman Vicki Donlan. In a spirited call to action, she covers the challenges, opportunities, prospects, and emerging roles for female leaders in a wide spectrum of fields including business, politics, education, … Continue reading

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Small States in Global Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) (Studies of the Americas)

This book represents an update of a well-received volume published in 1989, Caribbean in World Affairs. Given the broad changes that have occurred in the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and taking into account requests for a … Continue reading

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