Taxing the State: The Politics of Changing Taxes in the American States is a comparative analysis that explores the socioeconomic and political causes and effects of tax policy and budget spending at the state level.
This book provides a comparative, theoretical, and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries.
This book provides a comparative, theoretical, and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries.
When Governments Collide: Competition Within Nations in Quebec and Catalonia offers a comparative analysis of Quebec and Catalonia from the perspective of minority cultures operating within broader states, where their cultures and identities sometimes come in conflict with that of the majority, focusing on language, immigration, and foreign affairs policy.
Ngu Ik Tien explores how Malaysia's Barisan Nasional (BN) regime-once celebrated as a model of consociational democracy-achieved broad political domination through its structures and systems across the country, including in the Chinese-majority municipality of Sibu in Sarawak.
This timely book presents conclusive new evidence on paradiplomacy in contemporary Europe, challenging mainstream understanding of how substate actors engage with the European Union (EU).
Unter den Bedingungen der europäischen Liberalisierung erfolgt die Leistungserbringung im Bereich der öffentlichen Energiegrundversorgung durch Unternehmen unter Marktbedingungen.
In Politik und Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik zählen die Gewerkschaften – auch jenseits der Arbeitsbeziehungen – zu den wichtigsten politischen Akteuren.
In Politik und Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik zählen die Gewerkschaften – auch jenseits der Arbeitsbeziehungen – zu den wichtigsten politischen Akteuren.
This book explores how a museum in Bristol, England, opened up to Black and African-Caribbean communities and shows how these encounters were shaped by different understandings of heritage practices and spaces.
This book explores how a museum in Bristol, England, opened up to Black and African-Caribbean communities and shows how these encounters were shaped by different understandings of heritage practices and spaces.
Unter den Bedingungen der europäischen Liberalisierung erfolgt die Leistungserbringung im Bereich der öffentlichen Energiegrundversorgung durch Unternehmen unter Marktbedingungen.
As urbanization intensifies, the phenomenon of urban heat islands poses significant challenges to public health, energy consumption, and overall urban livability.
This book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms “surveillant care”—a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for assistance.
This book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms “surveillant care”—a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for assistance.
This book sheds light on the mechanisms at the base of formation and consolidation of vacant land in metropolitan regions, an under-debated issue of urban growth, regional science and architecture.
This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.
This book sheds light on the mechanisms at the base of formation and consolidation of vacant land in metropolitan regions, an under-debated issue of urban growth, regional science and architecture.
This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.
This book critically examines the failures and contradictions of UK drug policy, exposing how current laws disproportionately target marginalised communities while overlooking the widespread harms of legal substances like alcohol.
This book will reflect on the various urban complexities with a thorough demonstration on potential sustainable solution essential for cities with various policy measures.
This book critically examines the failures and contradictions of UK drug policy, exposing how current laws disproportionately target marginalised communities while overlooking the widespread harms of legal substances like alcohol.
This edited collection draws together and contextualises research on the Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim) approaches to sexual abuse carried out by the University of West England (UWE), Bristol.
This edited collection draws together and contextualises research on the Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim) approaches to sexual abuse carried out by the University of West England (UWE), Bristol.
Drawing on interviews with over 50 women in rural villages in Ghana, this book analyzes the poverty of older, rural, and illiterate women in Ghana within the framework of the feminization of poverty.
This book covers various areas of mining and metallurgic industries' pollution of water, food crops, ambient air and farmlands, and their related salient impacts on residents' well-being.
As urbanization intensifies, the phenomenon of urban heat islands poses significant challenges to public health, energy consumption, and overall urban livability.
This book covers various areas of mining and metallurgic industries' pollution of water, food crops, ambient air and farmlands, and their related salient impacts on residents' well-being.
This volume deals with the determinants of both good and bad health, at individual as well as community levels, or in a broader sense, all of which are determined by multiple, critically interlinked actors that are surprisingly concentrated within the built environment.
