Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present. The welfa