New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics.
This scoping review furnishes the reader with a contemporary overview of research about employment conditions related to persons on the autism spectrum.
This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation.
Die Willkommenskultur des Jahres 2015 in Deutschland ist umgeschlagen in eine Abschiebepolitik der Bundesregierung mit Hilfe der (Um-)Definition sicherer Herkunftsländer.
This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world's largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
So werden wir durch Sprache manipuliertDeutschland muss "fit für die Zukunft" gemacht, die "Wettbewerbsfähigkeit" gesteigert werden - das ist "alternativlos"!
This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date.
China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform.
Developing and 'transition' economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens and sustainable environments for future generations.
This book holds a distinguished promise of an intellectual understanding and complete account of that shifts in laying out resilient planning, development, and policy landscapes for the cities to come.
This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the "e;World Factory"e; to become a leading world economy in innovation and entrepreneurialism.
Obwohl 'Soziale Ungleichheit' als ein klassisches Thema der Gesellschaftstheorie gelten muß, war die Diskussion um die Ur sachen, Formen und Veränderungen sozialer Ungleichheit gegen Ende der siebziger Jahre eher in den Hintergrund der sozial wissenschaftlichen Theoriediskussion geraten.
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung zu theoretischen Bezugsbegriffen aus Politik und Sozialwissenschaften, aber auch in Charakteristika und Grundstrukturen freiwilligen Engagements.
This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today.
Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance among individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division of labor between private and social insurance.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications.
The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the driving force taken by global cities.
This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.
Providing a description of the responses taken by the federal government to issues revolving around criminal justice, each chapter focuses on a different problem and shows what different presidents have said, what policies were proposed and/or passed by Congress, and any cases heard by the Supreme Court on the issue.
This book explores economic developments across Europe in relation to its apparent segmentation, as disparities widen between core and periphery countries.
Die Autoren untersuchen am Beispiel des Ankunftsquartiers Duisburg-Marxloh Herkunftssituation, Wanderungswege und -motive sowie die Lebenssituation von Zuwanderern aus Bulgarien und Rumänien.
Ausgehend von der These, dass wahltaktische Erwägungen bei der Positionierung von Gesetzesinitiativen in der Gesundheitspolitik eine Rolle spielen, stellt Andreas Köhler dar, wie Initiativen von politischen Akteuren bewusst inhaltlich und hinsichtlich ihrer Terminierung an bevorstehenden Wahlen ausgerichtet werden und sich mit dem Ziel der Stimmenmaximierung an diesen orientieren.
This brief takes the reader through a 10-year journey of seeking to embed Evidence Based Policing within one of the largest police forces in the world - the Metropolitan Police Service in London, England - from the inside.
This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
As a consultant for healthcare associations working on all the healthcare laws from Medicare, the Health Manpower Act, Budget Reconciliation, Clinton healthcare efforts and the Affordable Healthcare Act, Donald Lavanty had a front-row seat from which to witness the politics and policies motivating each action.
In vielen Bereichen des Gesundheitswesens besteht nach wie vor ein großer Bedarf an Fach- und Führungskräften im Managementbereich, die über eine interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung verfügen und mit den speziellen Gegebenheiten der unterschiedlichen Bereichen im Gesundheitswesens vertraut sind.
