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Who Runs Edinburgh? (Paperback): David McCrone Who Runs Edinburgh? (Paperback)
David McCrone
R462 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book, written by a leading sociologist, tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, formal and informal; its changing political economy; and the rise of its status as Festival city. Behind all this lies a complex system of money and culture, of presumed social status tied into a hierarchy of schools and institutions, universities, banks and finance houses. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it should look like. It examines planning controversies, from post-war developments through various 'holes in the ground' up to and including The Trams controversy. Studying Edinburgh lets us draw lessons about cities in general, and their roles in the modern world.

Community Development and Public Administration Theory - Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities (Paperback):... Community Development and Public Administration Theory - Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities (Paperback)
Ashley E Nickels, Jason D. Rivera
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by the way in which practitioners use the term in the vernacular. Departing from traditional definitions of community development, this volume applies the New Public Service (NPS) perspective of Public Administration to community development to illustrate how public administrators and public managers can engage in community development planning and implementation that results in more equitable and sustainable long-term outcomes. This book will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in public administration/management, public administration theory, community development, economic development, urban sociology, urban politics, and urban planning.

Local Political Participation in Japan - A Case Study of Oita (Paperback): Dani Daigle Kida Local Political Participation in Japan - A Case Study of Oita (Paperback)
Dani Daigle Kida
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How Do Japanese Citizens Participate Politically? Most Japanese citizens, perhaps with a bit of a chuckle, would answer that 'average' Japanese do not participate in politics. While political attitudes in other countries have fluctuated corresponding to social, political, and economic climates of the times; in Japan, a consistently negative view of politics has persisted since the late 1960s. Japanese citizens perceive their government much more critically than citizens of neighboring countries. While many Japanese citizens participate in specific political acts such as signing candidate support cards, attending political rallies, or directly contacting politicians, they largely do not view these activities as political participation. Kida examines why this is the case; whether there is a connection between negative views of politics and how Japanese people self-identify their political participation; how Japanese citizens attempt to exact change or influence policy; how the government engages citizens in political participation; and the relationship between citizens' attitudes towards government and levels of political participation. Kida explores political participation on the local level, to better understand the sources of political attitudes. While participation studies have been conducted in Japan, most are centered in large urban areas, focusing on either extreme forms of participation such as protests, or concentrated on single issue participation such as the environmental or women's movements. This book, in contrast, explores what every day 'regular' in the system political participation looks like in a small traditional Japanese city - using Oita, a small city in Kyushu, as a case study. It focuses especially on the role local institutions and politicians play in influencing the kinds of participation available and subsequently, the attitudes created about participation.

Ghosting the News - Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (Paperback): Margaret Sullivan Ghosting the News - Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (Paperback)
Margaret Sullivan
R355 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R36 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2015, 1,800 print newspaper outlets closed in the US. One in five news organizations in Canada has closed since 2008. One in three Brazilians lives in news deserts. The absence of accountability journalism has created an atmosphere in which indicted politicians were elected, school superintendents were mismanaging districts, and police chiefs were getting mysterious payouts. This is not the much-discussed fake-news problem-it's the separate problem of a critical shortage of real news. America's premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan, charts the contours of the damage, and surveys a range of new efforts to keep local news alive-from non-profit digital sites to an effort modeled on the Peace Corps. No nostalgic paean to the roar of rumbling presses, Ghosting the News instead sounds a loud alarm, alerting citizens to a growing crisis in local news that has already done serious damage.

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban & Regional Planning (Paperback): John Schofield Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban & Regional Planning (Paperback)
John Schofield
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1987, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban and Regional Planning, outlines the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of urban and regional planning. The theory of CBA is developed with examples to illustrate the principles, it also deals with details of the applications and covers issues such as local health and social services provision, local economic development and regional policy evaluation, and planning in less developed countries - as well as the conventional land-use issues of physical planning.

Running For Local Office For Dummies (Paperback): D. Gookin Running For Local Office For Dummies (Paperback)
D. Gookin
R518 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R117 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Get ready to run for--and win--that local election! In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their local community. If you want to know how to prepare for a run, which steps to take beforehand, and how the process goes from announcement to campaigning to election day to the swearing-in ceremony--this book has you covered. Find out what it's like to run for local office as a first-time candidate Explore the introspection required and the study necessary to make such a run effective Deal with marketing, fundraising, interacting with the public, and dealing with opponents Encourage and help others to make a run for local office Though only one person ultimately wins a seat, nobody does it without a wide network of support. Running For Local Office For Dummies is your ticket to navigating every step on the road to winning that election.

Are Politics Local? - The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization around the World (Paperback): Scott Morgenstern Are Politics Local? - The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization around the World (Paperback)
Scott Morgenstern
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are politics local? Why? Where? When? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects? This book provides answers to these questions, within an explicitly comparative framework, including both advanced and developing democracies. It does so by using a statistically-based and graphical account of party nationalization, providing methodology and data for legislative elections covering scores of parties across dozens of countries. The book divides party nationalization into two dimensions - static and dynamic - to capture different aspects of localism, both with important implications for representation. Static nationalization measures the consistency in a party's support across the country and thus shows whether parties are able to encompass local concerns into their platforms. Dynamic nationalization, in turn, measures the consistency among the districts in over-time change in electoral results, under the presumption that where districts differ in their electoral responses, local factors must drive politics. Each of the two dimensions, in sum, considers representation from the perspective of the mix of national versus local politics.

Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco - Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent (Paperback): Senem Aslan Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco - Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent (Paperback)
Senem Aslan
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why do some ethno-national groups live peacefully with the states that govern them, whereas others develop into serious threats to state authority? Through a comparative historical analysis, this book compares the evolution of Kurdish mobilization in Turkey with the Berber mobilization in Morocco by looking at the different nation-building strategies of the respective states. Using a variety of sources, including archival documents, interviews, and memoirs, Senem Aslan emphasizes the varying levels of willingness and the varying capabilities of the Turkish and Moroccan states to intrude into their citizens' lives. She argues that complex interactions at the ground level - where states have demanded changes in everyday behavior, such as how to dress, what language to speak, what names to give children, and more mundane practices - account for the nature of emerging state-minority relations. By taking the local and informal interactions between state officials and citizens seriously, this study calls attention to the actual implementation of state policies and the often unintended consequences of these policies.

Democratization from Above - The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World (Paperback): Anjali Thomas Bohlken Democratization from Above - The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World (Paperback)
Anjali Thomas Bohlken
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Democratization from Above seeks to explain why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others neglect or actively undermine democracy at local levels of government. The study challenges conventional wisdom that local democratization is implemented as a means of granting more autonomy to local actors. Instead, Anjali Thomas Bohlken argues that local democratization offers higher level government elites who lack control over party organizational networks an alternative means of increasing the effectiveness of local intermediaries on whom these elites rely to mobilize political support. The book starts with a focus on India and uses original data, and a combination of qualitative and quantitative evidence, to show support for the argument. The study then relies on an original cross-national dataset to show how the argument helps explain the variation in the implementation of local democratization reforms across the developing world.

Indonesia's Changing Political Economy - Governing the Roads (Paperback): Jamie S. Davidson Indonesia's Changing Political Economy - Governing the Roads (Paperback)
Jamie S. Davidson
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davidson utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low investment rates and the sluggish adoption of liberalizing reforms. He argues that obstacles have less to do with weak formal institutions and low fiscal capacities of the state than with entrenched, rent-seeking interests, misaligned central-local government relations, and state-society struggles over land. Using a political-sociological approach, Davidson demonstrates that 'getting the politics right' matters as much as getting the prices right or putting the proper institutional safeguards in place for infrastructure development. This innovative account and its conclusions will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asia and policymakers of infrastructure investment and economic growth.

Why Regional Parties? - Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System (Paperback): Adam Ziegfeld Why Regional Parties? - Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System (Paperback)
Adam Ziegfeld
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. He draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence from over eighteen months of field research to demonstrate that regional parties are, in actuality, successful because they represent expedient options for office-seeking politicians. By focusing on clientelism, coalition government, and state-level factional alignments, Ziegfeld explains why politicians in India find membership in a regional party appealing. He therefore accounts for the remarkable success of India's regional parties and, in doing so, outlines how party systems take root and evolve in democracies where patronage, vote buying, and machine politics are common.

Party Brands in Crisis - Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America (Paperback):... Party Brands in Crisis - Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America (Paperback)
Noam Lupu
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why have so many established political parties across Latin America collapsed in recent years? Party Brands in Crisis offers an explanation that highlights the effect of elite actions on voter behavior. During the 1980s and 1990s, political elites across the region implemented policies inconsistent with the traditional positions of their party, provoked internal party conflicts, and formed strange-bedfellow alliances with traditional rivals. These actions diluted party brands and eroded voter attachment. Without the assured support of a partisan base, parties became more susceptible to short-term retrospective voting, and voters without party attachments deserted incumbent parties when they performed poorly. Party Brands in Crisis offers the first general explanation of party breakdown in Latin America, reinforcing the interaction between elite behavior and mass attitudes.

Public Enterprise and Local Place - New Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Hardcover): John Fenwick, Lorraine Johnston Public Enterprise and Local Place - New Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
John Fenwick, Lorraine Johnston
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents the key interactions in local government and public enterprise, drawing together the challenges for local governance in the practice of public entrepreneurship and its response to collaboration, place and place making. Specifically, this book includes the impact of local partnerships and public entrepreneurs in local policy implementation. It is written by established authors bringing together their experience and practice of local partnerships and public entrepreneurship in place-based strategies, and will be of value to local government, new forms of enterprise partnerships, wider agencies and public entrepreneurship scholars as well as policymakers responsible for implementation of place-based regeneration. This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners in public administration, business administration, local government, entrepreneurship, public sector management and more broadly to those with interests in public policy, business and management, political science, economics, urban studies and geography.

Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems - The Vices and Virtues of Regionalisation (Hardcover): Thomas Daubler, Jochen... Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems - The Vices and Virtues of Regionalisation (Hardcover)
Thomas Daubler, Jochen Muller, Christian Stecker
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the UK, and discusses conditions that might facilitate or hamper responsiveness in regional democracies. It follows the entire chain of democratic responsiveness, starting from the translation of citizen preferences into voting behaviour, up to patterns of decision-making and policy implementation. Many European democracies have experienced considerable decentralisation over the past few decades. This book explores the key virtues which may accompany this trend, such as regional-level political authorities performing better in understanding and implementing citizens' preferences. It also examines how, on the other hand, decentralisation can come at a price, especially since the resulting multi-level structures may create several new obstacles to democratic representation, including information, responsibility and accountability problems. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal West European Politics.

State and Local Finances under Pressure (Hardcover, illustrated edition): David L. Sjoquist State and Local Finances under Pressure (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
David L. Sjoquist
R3,807 Discovery Miles 38 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and local governments should and are likely to make. The contributors argue that state and local governments must make substantial changes and that failure to act is likely to result in adverse effects and increasing pressures for modifications that are more difficult to implement and more politically unpalatable. Without reform, state and local fiscal systems will grow increasingly out of sync with economic reality. The authors suggest that government responses are likely to be evolutionary, but that in 25 years the recorded changes will be substantial. The first chapter provides a historic perspective of state and local fiscal trends. Each of the subsequent chapters describes the nature of one of the pressures state and local governments face including: political and legal forces, globalization of business, demographic and technological changes, deregulation of utilities, and urban sprawl. Policymakers, economists, political scientists, fiscal policy analysts and public administrators will find this comprehensive book of interest.

On the Nature Trail - Converting the Rural into the Ecological Through a State Tourism Policy (Hardcover): Rodrigo Toniol,... On the Nature Trail - Converting the Rural into the Ecological Through a State Tourism Policy (Hardcover)
Rodrigo Toniol, Carlos Alberto Steil
R4,789 Discovery Miles 47 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents an ethnography of nature walks in a rural area of Parana state, southern Brazil. The event is organised by government agencies responsible for implementing public policies for farming, tourism, the environment and culture, as well as by the local community of small farmers. However, a deeper inquiry into the layers of experiences and practices accumulated over the history of human walking reveals a multiplicity of lines interwoven into this event. Over the course of this book, the authors have presented different aspects and epistemological consequences of the phrase "walking is knowing".

West Scotland (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed): Ordnance Survey West Scotland (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed)
Ordnance Survey
R568 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
South East England (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed): Ordnance Survey South East England (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed)
Ordnance Survey
R568 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Property, Predation, and Protection - Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine (Paperback): Stanislav Markus Property, Predation, and Protection - Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine (Paperback)
Stanislav Markus
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What threatens the property rights of business owners? And what makes these rights secure? This book transcends the conventional diagnosis of the issue in modern developing countries by moving beyond expropriation by the state ruler or by petty bureaucratic corruption. It identifies 'agent predation' as a novel threat type, showing it to be particularly widespread and detrimental. The book also questions the orthodox prescription: institutionalized state commitment cannot secure property rights against agent predation. Instead, this volume argues that business actors can hold the predatory state agents accountable through firm-level alliances with foreign actors, labor, and local communities. Beyond securing ownership, such alliances promote rule of law in a rent-seeking society. Taking Russia and Ukraine between 2000 and 2012 as its empirical focus, the book advances these arguments by drawing on more than 150 qualitative interviews with business owners, policy makers, and bureaucrats, as well as an original large-N survey of firms.

Central Scotland (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed): Ordnance Survey Central Scotland (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed)
Ordnance Survey
R568 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Latinos in the Legislative Process - Interests and Influence (Paperback): Stella M. Rouse Latinos in the Legislative Process - Interests and Influence (Paperback)
Stella M. Rouse
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In one of the only accounts of Latino legislative behavior, Stella M. Rouse examines how well the growing Latino population translates their increased presence into legislative influence. Latinos in the Legislative Process explores Latino representation by considering the role of ethnicity throughout the legislative process - from bill sponsorship, to committee deliberations, to floor votes - in seven state legislatures. Rouse first identifies issues that are priorities for Latinos and tells us whether a Latino political agenda exists. She then provides a theoretical framework for ethnicity in legislative behavior and outcomes. Rouse demonstrates that ethnicity is a complex dynamic that plays a variable role in the legislative process. Thus, Latino representation cannot be viewed monolithically.

Untitled (Hardcover): Anon9780063276000 Untitled (Hardcover)
Anon9780063276000
R939 R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Save R166 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER / #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER / #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same lesson: He didn't want to be part of the leftist elite. His heart was always for the people of Florida, one of the most diverse and culturally rich states in the union. Since becoming governor of the Sunshine State, he has fought--and won--battle after battle, defeating not just opposition from the political left, but a barrage of hostile media coverage proclaiming the end of the world. When he implemented COVID-19 policies based on evidence and focused on freedoms, the press launched a smear campaign against him, yet Florida's economy thrived, its education system outperformed the nation, and Florida's COVID mortality rate for seniors was lower than that in thirty-eight states. When he enacted policies to keep leftist political concepts like critical race theory and woke gender ideology out of Florida's classrooms, the media demagogued his actions, but parents across Florida rallied to his cause. Dishonest attacks from the media don't deter him. In fact, DeSantis keeps racking up wins for Floridians. In 2022, the governor delivered a historic, record-setting victory, winning by nearly 20 points and more than 1.5 million votes. A firsthand account from the blue-collar boy who grew up to take on Disney and Dr. Fauci, The Courage to Be Free delivers something rare from an elected leader: stories of victory. This book is a winning blueprint for patriots across the country. And it is a rallying cry for every American who wishes to preserve our liberties.

East Midlands (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed): Ordnance Survey East Midlands (Sheet map, flat, February 2016 ed)
Ordnance Survey
R568 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Divided Cities (Paperback): Fainstein Divided Cities (Paperback)
Fainstein
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Divided Cities is the comparative analysis of New York and London which many have been waiting for. Wider in scope and richer in detailthan any previous study, this work provides the best introduction available to these pre-eminent world cities.
Seeming at times to mirror each other acrocc the Atlantic, New York and London stand at the apex of their respective national hierarchies, as economic and cultural capitals, and occupy similarly commanding positions within the world economy. From decline in the 1970s to renewal in the 1980s, both cities once again face decline in the 1990s, exhibiting ever-widening social divisions.
While struck by the many socio-political similarities on New York and London in their responses to global economic restructuring, the authors also delineate the quite distinctive political structures and social divisions constituted by class, race, and gender, of each city.
At the heart of the book lies the question: In what sense, if any, was there an urban revival in the last decade - and for whom? In answering this question Divided Cities traces the influence of international economic forces, and national and local policies upon the fortunes of New York and London.

Information for Autocrats - Representation in Chinese Local Congresses (Paperback): Melanie Manion Information for Autocrats - Representation in Chinese Local Congresses (Paperback)
Melanie Manion
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the new representation unfolding in Chinese local congresses. Drawing qualitative fieldwork and data analysis from original surveys of 5,130 township, county, and municipal congressmen and women and constituents, Melanie Manion shows the priorities and problems of ordinary Chinese significantly influence both who gets elected to local congresses and what the congresses do once elected. Candidates nominated by ordinary voters are 'good types', with qualities that signal they will reliably represent the community. By contrast, candidates nominated by the communist party are 'governing types', with qualities that reflect officially valued competence and loyalty. However, congressmen and women of both types now largely reject the Maoist-era role of state agent. Instead, they view themselves as 'delegates', responsible for advocating with local government to supply local public goods. Manion argues that representation in Chinese local congresses taps local knowledge for local governance, thereby bolstering the rule of autocrats in Beijing.

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