Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo’s waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.

Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence.

The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.

This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director from 1939 to 1945.

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.

Demonstrates how residents can play a leading role in the positive transformation of their communities in the face of economic and population decline.

Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society.

An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.