This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the

How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explo

Offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives impact bureaucratic regulation, using the case of air pollution control.

This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the

Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural re