The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within…

This volume is a collection of fifty of the most important studies presented at the Jerusalem Center’s International Conference on Urban Revitalization. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Israeli…

The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics was begun in the late 1950s under the auspices of the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs as a study of…

The 1996 Israel elections were the first elections by direct vote for the position of Prime Minister. This work looks at the parties, election campaigns and the processes that determined…

Explores the roots of federalism, traces its historical development through three stages, and then describes how it has and can be employed to promote workable and effective government systems in…

Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s.

Two values often at odds with each other - competition and compassion - dominate New York’s political culture. In this overview of New York politics, five scholars explore the state’s…

This work examines various mid-sized cities such as Duluth, Minnesota and Springfield, Illinois and assesses how they adapted to change during the period after World War II through to the…