Routledge Studies in North American Politics
Regional Governance in Post‐NAFTA North America: Building without Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Bow, Greg Anderson
November 16, 2016
Twenty years after NAFTA, the consensus seems to be that the regional project in North America is dead. The trade agreement was never followed up by new institutions that might cement a more ambitious regional community. The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), launched with some fanfare in ...
North American Integration: An Institutional Void in Migration, Security and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaspare M. Genna, David A. Mayer-Foulkes
July 16, 2015
The course of events since the implementation of NAFTA has had unexpected elements with significant impacts on North American integration. First has been the rise of China as a larger source of imports and production partner than Mexico. Second has been the rise of security concerns since September...
The State and Security in Mexico: Transformation and Crisis in Regional Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Bow, Arturo Santa-Cruz
May 21, 2015
At the turn of the millennium, Mexico seemed to have finally found its path to political and economic modernization; a state which had been deeply embedded in society was being pulled out, with new political leaders allowing market forces to play a greater role in guiding the nation’s economic ...
Federalism, Secession, and the American State: Divided, We Secede
1st Edition
By Lawrence M. Anderson
November 10, 2014
One important tradition in political science conceives of the Civil War in the United States serving as the functional equivalent of the English and French Revolutions, bringing with it the victory of liberal democratic industrialism over aristocratic agriculturalism. From this perspective, the ...
Mexico-United States Relations: The Semantics of Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Arturo Santa-Cruz
November 10, 2014
Sovereignty is a key factor to consider when studying the Mexico-United States relationship. During most of the twentieth century, as a result of the new character of the Mexican post-revolutionary regime, there was a decoupling between the state’s maximalist discourse on sovereignty, and its ...
How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior
1st Edition
By Robert J. Hume
February 10, 2012
What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside ...
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy
1st Edition
By Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
November 19, 2010
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial ...
Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada
1st Edition
By Miriam Smith
April 29, 2009
Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in ...