Regional, state and other local government

Das Buch untersucht in 17 Beiträgen grundlegende Debatten zur politischen Einheitsbildung in Deutschland seit den 20er Jahren bis heute.

How does the ideal state look like?

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal.

Drawing on a wide range of interviews and primary and secondary sources, this book investigates the dynamic interactions between national regulatory formation and the global biopolitics of regenerative medicine and human embryonic stem cell science.

Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing criminal justice practices.

Gloria von Papen Robredo untersucht am Beispiel zweier Landesverbände der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege Problemdefinitionen und –lösungen sowie Handlungsorientierungen beim Umgang mit Migration in Deutschland.

In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more important than ever.

This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "e;plague"e; results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America.

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state's fast track land reform programme.

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.

There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that the pharmaceutical industry is both socially beneficial and profitable.

Today, when politicians, pundits, and scholars speak of states rights, they are usually referring to Southern efforts to curtail the advance of civil rights policies or to conservative opposition to the federal government under the New Deal, Great Society, and Warren Court.

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy.

In this book, Eleonora Redaelli investigates the arts in American cities, providing insight into urban cultural policy discourse through the lens of space.

This book focuses on the intricacies of elections within Russian ethnic republics and political loyalty in these regions.

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 two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

First published in 1985, Decentralization provides an analytical framework for the comparative study of decentralization in contemporary systems of government.

This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level.

This book assesses how much influence social movements have on EU policy and the means through which influence is secured.

Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies: Best Practices for Public Procurement, Third Edition provides state-of-the-art tools for best practice in the procurement of services at state and local levels, throughout the procurement cycle.

Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing.

How do we understand the evolution of central-local relations in China during the reform period?

Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those seeking safety and security.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

The study of local climate zones (LCZ) links urban morphology, land use and land cover types, human activity, and thermal properties, and provides a standard framework for studying urban climatic issues.

The disputes around fracking, and oil and gas policy, follow a long tradition of complicated intergovernmental relationships.

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance.

Díez explores how and why Latin America has become a leader among nations in the passage of gay marriage legislation.

This book explains how the U.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital.

Die Krise im Euro-Raum stellt sowohl die Integration Europas als auch die Demokratie in Europa in Frage.

This book introduces an integrated framework with corpus-assisted approach to deal with large set of data of discourse with multimodal factors to investigate how policy addresses (the government reports of Macao SAR) as a discourse type function in the social changes of Macao SAR through discussing the social factors to the production and consumption of policy addresses.

This book presents concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across the fields of physical, environmental, and human geography.

This book provides a critical commentary on China's situation and future outlook from the perspective of the 2012-13 generational power transfer.

Die Politik der Aktivierung macht nicht halt vor Menschen mit gravierenden gesundheitlichen und sozialen Problemen.

This book provides a varied, thorough and informative analysis of how newspapers covered the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in its critical final months.

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader?

Evangelia Psychogiopoulou brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to investigate the media's freedom and independence, and the media policy processes, institutional spaces, regulatory practices and instruments that can support the development of free and independent media in Europe.

Researchers recognize that theoretical frameworks and models of child development and family dynamics have historically overlooked the ways in which developmental processes are shaped by socio-cultural contexts.

From the growth of a multi-billion-dollar high-technology corridor in Malaysia to conflict over housing development in Chicago, the practice of regional and local economic development around the world is both dynamic and diverse.