Regional, state and other local government

This is the first scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective and, specifically, with reference to the right to self-determination.

A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.

Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city.

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of global inequalities across nations depending upon their economic position, support policies of the government and international relationship particularly in the context of alarming growth of unemployed in the labour market, business activity and social sector.

This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in place to either prevent, or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation.

The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Population covers the major topics of the discipline of demography, including current substantive, methodological and theoretical issues of interest, as well as new and emerging topics in the field.

This handbook examines 25 years of decentralised governance and development in India.

This book, the first comprehensive, accessible review of housing in Ireland for many years, introduces key housing developments and also reports on the findings of the latest research on the transformation of the sector in the past decade.

This book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities.

This book analyzes the different policy challenges that Pakistani women face and makes regionally relevant policy recommendations across different areas of private and public life, drawing on secondary data from nationally representative surveys and primary data from qualitative interviews.

This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication technologies.

Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof.

Presidents and Their Pens: The Story of White House Speechwriters explores 23 presidencies through the detailed analysis of speeches including Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Teddy Roosevelt's "e;Big Stick"e; speech, Eisenhower's farewell to the nation, and Bill Clinton's compassionate words in the wake of tragedy.

The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany.

There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular.

This book focuses on neglected skin diseases and conditions in resource-poor countries through the lens of livelihoods.

Hannu Turba untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Logiken in hybriden Berufswelten deutend und handelnd verarbeitet werden – und mit welchem Ergebnis.

This book characterizes a type of city, i.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.

Whether you are a student preparing for a career in public administration, a mid-career professional manager or a seasoned veteran, A Guidebook for City and County Managers provides policy guidance and advice to local governmental challenges and issues.

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State judicial elections are governed by a unique set of rules that enforce longstanding norms of judicial independence by limiting how judicial candidates campaign.

The electoral success of secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland over the last decade, together with Brexit and the support for Eurosceptic parties in many EU member states, have prompted a rethink of many taken-for-granted notions about politics in Spain, the UK and the EU.

In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients.

Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme.

This book offers the first ever book-length treatment of the topic of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood with autism and the attendant ethical, legal and social issues for the individual as well as caregivers and professionals.

This book, now available in paperback, is the result of national research conducted amongst England's directly elected mayors and the councillors that serve alongside them.

In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest social science research has been devoted to the issue of unemployment.

The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory.

This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning the digitization and information management in smart cities' infrastructures.

This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

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.

Das Buch vermittelt einen leicht verständlichen Überblick über die wichtigsten dogmenhistorischen Positionen des ökonomischen Denkens ("Aspekt der Ökonomie" in der Antike und im Mittelalter; Merkantilismus, Physiokratismus, Klassischer Liberalismus, Sozialismus, Historismus, Grenznutzenlehre, Neoklassik, Keynesianismus, Monetarismus, Evolutorische Wirtschaftstheorie und Neoliberalismus).

As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies.

This book discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development.

First published in 1988, Local Authorities and New Technologies seeks to address some of the key issues facing local government in the related areas of economic rejuvenation, new technology and European Community support.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the role of local governments around the world in the management of the migration, integration and development nexus.

This book introduces a comprehensive and updated analysis of the role of public policies to promote territorial cohesion processes and trends in a given territory.

This book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity.

This book studies and compares quality of life in 29 countries/societies in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea(South), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

This is the first book length study of performance activism.