Government Books

New and Published Books

1. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals)

   By J.A. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations

   Edited by Anna Agathangelou, Nevzat Soguk

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) following the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010. It brings together authors who...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. New Directions in American Politics

   Edited by Raymond J. La Raja

   Series: New Directions in American Politics

   New Directions in American Politics introduces students not just to how the American political system works but also to how political science works. La Raja brings together top scholars to write original essays across the standard curriculum of American government and politics, capturing...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. European Security Policy and Strategic Culture

   Edited by Peter Schmidt, Benjamin Zyla

   With the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture. Specifically, it studies the usefulness of its application in a...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
6. Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

   Edited by Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny

   Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that...

   Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. State-centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea

   Shifting Power

   By Hyuk-Rae Kim

   Series: Routledge Studies on Modern Korea

   In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Public-Private Partnerships in the USA

   Lessons to be Learned for the United Kingdom

   By Tony Wall

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals. This book compares and contrasts PPP research...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. In Defense of Politicians

   The Expectations Trap and Its Threat to Democracy

   By Stephen K. Medvic

   Series: Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation

   Politicians are reviled. From jokes on late-night TV talk shows to radio show rants and from public opinion polls to ubiquitous conventional wisdom—politicians are among the most despised professional class in modern society. Drawing on seminal work in political science, Stephen K. Medvic...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

    A Handbook

    Edited by Abbas Kadhim

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Governance in the Middle East and North African will be essential reading for scholars, activists and policy makers. This new Handbook presents the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political,...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge