Regional, state and other local government

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa.

The book provides a the state-of-the-art of local government studies, with an emphasis on contributions by political science.

Eine "ökonomische Theorie der Sozialpolitik" wurde bereits 1961 durch das gleichnamige Lehrbuch von Elisabeth Liefmann-Keil angemahnt und in den Grundlagen dargestellt.

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 challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed (Manchester, England and Auckland, New Zealand).

This book explores the European welfare model, arguing that the rollout of European policies for welfare services has led to increased marketization.

The first major study of India''s regional parties which discusses why, when, and where they are electorally successful.

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.

This book presents an overview of social problems and health problems that arose out of, or were flared up by, the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.

This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion.

This book provides multidisciplinary approaches to smart and sustainable urban ecosystems.

Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries.

This book challenges the received scholarship on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a state of their own.

Dieses Buch behandelt sexuelle und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt (SGBV) gegen Frauen aus völkerrechtlicher Sicht.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

This book analyses theoretically and empirically why some single mothers are less disadvantaged than others.

This proceedings volume examines leadership from the perspectives of business, economics, social sciences, cross-cultural management, and education as a means to establish a future of sustainable development.

This book considers the key sectors of China's health care system after its entrance into the WTO, including the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance services, and hospitals in terms of policies, legal framework and market potential.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women's empowerment.

This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021.

This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies - largely in the UK, but some also in Europe - researched by a team of social scientists who share a commitment to social justice and equity in education.

This book investigates the experiences of women city councilors in India.

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying housing and ageing issues and relevant policy analysis in China, and beyond.

Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categories come to be seen as agents of social instability or as potential terrorists.

This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations - particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored.

In a world characterised by rapid change, uncertainty and increasing interconnectedness there is a growing need for science to contribute to the solution of persistent, complex problems.

Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities.

This book describes the various tactics used in counter-recruitment, drawing from the words of activists and case studies of successful organizing and advocacy.

This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice.

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 focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research.

Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as the dominant indicator of economic and social performance.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

This volume applies a systems science perspective to complex policy making dynamics, using the case of Indonesia to illustrate the concepts.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

This book discusses social entrepreneurship, especially in context of India.

This volume explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' interactions with public sector bureaucracies.

This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare policy and practice.

Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems.

Among the concepts used to assess the sustainability of fiscal policy in a changing demographic environment, generational accounting has become the most prominent.