This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.
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.
The book utilises Gramsci's concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement between the state and civil society have contributed to a polarised polity in Zimbabwe, and in turn how this has impacted democratisation processes.
This Compendium was conceived as a "e;pocket compass"e;, a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development.
This book thoroughly prepares intermediate-level readers for research in social science, organization studies, economics, finance, marketing science, and business science as complex adaptive systems.
This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration.
This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia.
Die Krise des Sozialstaates ist offenkundig: Demographische Zwänge, klamme Sozialkassen, ungelöste Arbeitsmarktproblematik, steigende Unzufriedenheit der Bürger.
Keen Johnson was governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943-years that spanned the end of the Depression and the initial involvement of this country in the Second World War.
This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventually, independence.
Kentucky's counties though theoretically provinces of the state were in reality powerful semi-sovereign entities during the latter half of the 19th century.
Every American war has brought conflict over the extent to which national security will permit protesters to exercise their constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.
In a time of increasing campaign costs and decreasing state political party activity, legislative party campaign committees have grown to play a major role in the politics of elections in a large number of American states.
This comprehensive study-an honorable mention in the 1971 Frederick Jackson Turner Award competition- traces the emergence and development of the Republican and Federalist party organizations in Virginia and shows how the old oligarchic system based on wealth, influence, and social prestige remained strong in that state after the formation of the new nation.
Die Geschichtswissenschaft wirft derzeit mit Hilfe verschiedener Historikerkommissionen einen zweiten Blick auf die personellen und institutionellen Kontinuitäten und Brüche im Nachkriegsdeutschland.
This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to national predominance between 1928 and 1932.
In a world experiencing unprecedented urbanization and drastic climate change, there is immense demand for creative solutions to the environmental, social, and economic obstacles faced by burgeoning cities in the developing world.
This book presents a critical analysis of the language surrounding Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), demonstrating how discourse can both sustain harm and serve as a catalyst for healing and change.
This book presents a critical analysis of the language surrounding Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), demonstrating how discourse can both sustain harm and serve as a catalyst for healing and change.
This book provides a theoretically informed, empirically grounded account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of the EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation.
This book provides a theoretically informed, empirically grounded account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of the EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation.
This book, Sustainable Urban Evolution, delves into the transformative potential of the 15-minute city concept, an innovative urban planning model crafted to address pressing issues like urban sprawl, environmental sustainability, resilience, and the demand for livable cities.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, showing how they can be harnessed to enhance organizational sustainability.
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how the humanities, social sciences, and health sciences can contribute to addressing the pressing challenges of the Anthropocene.
This book features selected chapters from the proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Conference on Intangibles (TAKE), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2024.
This book features selected chapters from the proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Conference on Intangibles (TAKE), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2024.
