Regional, state and other local government

This book examines the trends, underlying factors, and policy implications of fertility declines in three East Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and China.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.

This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context.

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"e;Cheshire - Its Traditions and History"e; is a fascinating account of the history of Cheshire, a county in North West England.

During the nearly 20 years of its existence, the Centro Mexicano para la Filantropia, A.

This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain.

This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress.

Originally published in 1985, this book was a study of one example of an all-purpose, unitary, borough council in the UK.

Der Titel des vorliegenden Buches ist eine Anmaßung.

This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021.

This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

This book honours Professor John McCombie's retirement by exploring a variety of themes, theories and debates in non-orthodox macroeconomics.

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe.

This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

Der Naturpark Barnim gilt als »grüne Lunge« vor den Toren der Hauptstadt.

CSR, a concept aimed at determining the amount of responsibilities to be shouldered by private business toward stakeholder groups and society at large, deserves to be dealt with in considerable detail and not simply as another "e;PR fuzz"e; or marketing gag.

This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

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

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism.

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made into post-secular political spaces that have emerged in the wake of the economic, political, and social upheavals of the 2008 global financial crisis.

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field over the past 30 years.

This book is a collection of stories and reflections that represent Chinese American leaders and depict their tortuous journeys in U.

China's late Chairman Mao Zedong once said "e;Women hold up half the world"e;, but in several respects the full emancipation of women still remains a global challenge.

Martina Lizarazo López beleuchtet den Wandel von der traditionellen zur modernen Demographiepolitik in Frankreich zwischen dem Ende des Baby-Booms und dem erneuten Geburtenanstieg ab der Mitte der 1990er Jahre, als wesentliche demographische, sozio-ökonomische, gesellschaftliche und rechtliche Transformationsprozesse eine Anpassung der traditionellen demographiepolitischen Strategien erforderten.

America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences.

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This book explores the nature and impact of stalking and criminal justice system responses to this type of abuse based on the experiences and lived realities of victims.

ALA TimesBestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders.

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.

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Rural Families and Work focuses on the findings of the Rural Families Speak research study and the theoretical frameworks that are utilized to examine the context of rural low-income families' employment.

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.

Das Buch schildert die ökonomischen Determinanten familialen Verhaltens aus theoretischer und empirischer Perspektive.

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services.

The book provides a contemporary 'snapshot' of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy.

A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response.

An often-overlooked aspect of entrepreneurship in American is its role in emerging domestic markets (EDM).

In contrast to a globalizing approach to 'transnational organized crime,' this edited volume studies socio-historical environments in which mafia-esque violence has found a fertile ground for growth and development within the political arena.

Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective.

Despite the growing multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of Britain, there is insufficient knowledge about diversity in family practices across ethno-religious groups.

This book provides a guide to becoming an empowered citizen, capable of achieving success when advocating with local government.

The existing welfare regime literature identifies differences in welfare state systems.

This book explores China's ambition to build itself into a maritime power.

This book discusses a new breed of racism, namely language racism, which is spreading both in the USA and in Europe, as well as other parts of the world.

Delving inside the state, Hassan shows how leaders politicize bureaucrats to maintain power, even after the introduction of multi-party elections.