Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.

Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs.

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.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.

The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today.

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.

Expert advice on how any citizen can fight government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.

Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.

Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.

An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.

Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.

Introduction to American politics and government, intended for students of political science. Provides a critical examination of both political institutions and political behavior.

Tells the forgotten but surprising stories of the many handsome and significant buildings in downtown Troy, New York.