The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the leading scholars in urban politics. The book...

The purpose of this research is to examine why some states have embraced digital government more extensively than others. Copyright (c) 2003 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.

Although the gender gap online has narrowed in the United States, little research on technology access and use has examined the different experiences of women-particularly the interaction between gender, race/ethnicity, and poverty. Using the most recent comprehensive survey of technology use...

There is little empirical evidence on whether the federal government learns from policy experimentation in the states, the “laboratories of democracy. ” Interviews with participants involved in formulating the federal Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities program offer evidence of limited...

The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) constitute two of the largest ongoing international student and teacher surveys presently underway. Data generated from these surveys offer researchers and policy-makers...

There has been increasing concern that the difficulty of obtaining firm operation licences in developing countries may decrease firm creation and increase informality. We estimate the effect on new firm creation/registration of a program that speeds up firm registration procedures and makes them...

This article outlines South Africa's comparative industrial performance over approximately the last two decades. It then examines the policies effected by the Department of Trade and Industry since 1994 to promote the development of industry. The focus is on the sector-specific supports...

For several decades the analysis of the so-called brain drain has been hampered by measurement problems. It is now recognised that the official figures significantly underestimate the extent of the brain drain phenomenon and its increase since the political changes in the mid-1990's. This paper,...