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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Institutional Grammar, an approach for analyzing the design of institutions.

This book provides an accessible yet critical analysis of the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn (?

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.

This book delves into the invaluable contributions made by the Italian UNESCO Chairs toward addressing the intricate and pressing global challenges of our era.

This book examines the politics of renewable electricity policy in democratic Spain.

This book explores the norms, practices, and main actors in the EU Migration System of Governance (EUMSG).

This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation.

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa.

The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This innovative collection draws on original research to explore the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their representatives across a range of European contexts; from democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist Italy.

This book deals with the changes in Korea's media governance between 1980 and 2017.

This book examines de facto regulation frameworks and methods in a variety of areas, such as banking, transportation, cyberspace, the non-profit sector, and more.

This book uses the structure of Machiavelli's The Prince to show how governance has changed over the last 500 years.

This book offers a critical exploration of first-hand experiences of practicing climate science.

This book discusses transport research and innovation, highlighting prospects for cooperation between different countries.

This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development.

This book focuses on innovations in culture having the potential to drive overall development.

This book addresses the endangerment of children's bodies in affluent societies.

This book examines the changes in the career experiences and profiles of 350 European prime ministers in 26 European democracies from 1945 to 2020.

This book observes that a key determinant of Europe's welfare over the coming decades will be how the region manages crises, both financial and societal.

This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale.

This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change.

This book offers a theoretically informed study of recent Chinese initiatives to provide forms of regional economic governance; or as it is often termed in Chinese discourses, regional "e;public goods"e;.

Political responses to climate change are shaped by beliefs and ideas.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This book explores water service provisions of the urban poor in the cities of Africa with particular emphasis on Kenya and its capital city of Nairobi.

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues.

This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland's mould-breaking 2020 election.

This book investigates the role of banking interest groups and lobbying in the making of the European Banking Union.

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the 'recovery' phase of a disaster by one of the UK's most experienced disaster management specialists.

This book studies systemic vulnerabilities and their impact on states and individual survival.

This book explores and analyses women's participation in local urban governance in West Bengal, India.

This book explores how the world community will respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.

This volume provides an introduction to the Eastern Mediterranean region and introduces the concept of the Eastern Mediterranean as a new regional subsystem.

This book provides a governance perspective on China's digital authoritarianism by examining the political and institutional dynamics of the country's internet sector in a historical context.

This book addresses and explores recent trends in the field of local and urban governance.

This book takes readers on a journey through the history of water in the Coahuila desert.

This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research.

"e;This enlightening book provides unique insights into the governance of the digital world, and the impact of that digital world on governance of the economy and society.

This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture.

The volume brings together an international group of authors discussing basic concepts and approaches to plural policing as well as aspects and practices of plural policing in specific locations.

This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland.

This book addresses the 'bigger picture' of local-European relations and adds a new dimension to existing studies on multilevel governance and the Europeanisation of local government.

This timely book presents a collection of expert insights into the impacts of COVID-19 in a broader socio-economic context.

This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War.

This book examines similarities and differences in 31 European governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book is about how water managers in the United States are responding to the call for increased effort to achieve sustainable supplies of clean fresh water for present and future generations.

This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process.

This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize.