Regional, state and other local government policies

Municipal image-building now promotes cities globally, and also to their own citizens.

Demokratie hat in Deutschland schon einmal den Weg in die Diktatur geebnet.

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As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures.

Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War.

An introduction to African history and politics since decolonization, emphasising the political, economic and socio-economic diversity of the continent.

Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest.

The Public Servant's Guide to Government in Canada is a concise primer on the inner workings of government in Canada.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

Wie gewinnt man die Herzen der Wähler?

Focuses on the transformation of the Vietnamese state as it transitioned away from a centrally planned socialist regime.

To examine patterns of social assistance provision specific to particular provinces, Boychuk develops a five-fold typology consisting of "e;residual,"e; "e;market/family enforcement,"e; "e;market performance,"e; "e;conservative,"e; and "e;redistributive"e; models.

The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world.

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent.

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy.

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.

Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions.

The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR''s socialism.

Regardless of which political party Americans identify with, the sentiment that those who work in Washington are corrupt transcends partisanship.

Inzwischen haben die meisten Bundesländer - darunter Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Hessen, Sachsen und das Saarland - Vorschriften über das neue Haushalts- und Rechnungswesen erlassen und damit in den Kommunen die Ablösung der Verwaltungskameralistik verbindlich eingeläutet.

Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences.

Focuses on the theories that highlight policymaking complexity and explains complexity in a way that is simple to understand.

Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as the dominant indicator of economic and social performance.

Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War.

The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

Delving inside the state, Hassan shows how leaders politicize bureaucrats to maintain power, even after the introduction of multi-party elections.

Transforming conflict through social and economic development examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and Border Counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking, with a range of functional recommendations produced for other regions emerging from and seeking to transform violent conflict.

Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical-and unexpected-role in the broader policymaking process.

A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.

The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls.

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

The Democratic Alliance won control of the uMngeni Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands after the local government elections in 2021.

The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools.

Eine besondere Beziehung: Petra Reski beschreibt Italien aus der Sicht einer Nicht-Italienerin.

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years.