Regional, state and other local government

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development.

During the Sixties the nation turned its eyes to San Francisco as the city's police force clashed with movements for free speech, civil rights, and sexual liberation.

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How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable?

Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associated with such technologies.

Kein Gegenstand veranlasste häufiger die Änderung des Grundgesetzes als die bundesstaatliche Ordnung.

Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis.

This book examines how map-based collaboration software can facilitate negotiations in areas undergoing contentious pressures for significant change.

Throughout the modernized world, a massive, bureaucratic apparatus of state welfare has been built up since the 1940s.

This book is the first practical case study on the application of big data in China's government management scenarios, which is important for comprehensively presenting the achievements of China's e-government and digital construction as well as deeply understanding the implementation of big data strategy in China.

Am Beispiel des Beschäftigungszuschusses untersucht Philipp Ramos Lobato, ob öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung dazu beitragen kann, die soziale Integration von Langzeitarbeitslosen zu verbessern.

​Gewinn und Moral sind weder automatisch kompatibel noch sind sie grundlegend inkompatibel.

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality.

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate change and segregation.

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

This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West.

This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation.

This book critically analyzes how European countries manage family-related challenges as they grapple with social and political transformations.

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics.

This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political challenges in Australia, and explores Indigenous policy development and policy expertise.

The latter third of the twentieth century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to choose Republican candidates over Democrats.

This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.

Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and livelihoods of such cities.

Over recent decades, decentralization has emerged as a key Public Sector Reform strategy in a wide variety of international contexts.

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.

This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

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

Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling.

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This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region.

Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories.

The story of Sydney's metropolitan food landscapes is one of dramatic transformations of First Nations land amidst jostles for power and wealth.

Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested.

Jeb Bush: Aggressive Conservatism in Florida describes the rise of John Ellis (Jeb) Bush, the second son of former President George H.

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done.

First Published in 1931, The Development of Local Government presents a comprehensive account of the most important questions related to various aspects of local government.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?