Regional, state and other local government

This book contributes to emerging debates about Levelling Up the UK Economy, considering these alongside the nature of, and trends in, both the political economy and spatial disparities.

How Do Japanese Citizens Participate Politically?

This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen's income (also known as a basic income).

Markus Roschitz zeigt in dieser Studie, wie sich der Nationalsozialismus Anfang der 1930er Jahre in der weststeirischen Region Schwanberg etablieren und trotz des Betätigungsverbots für die österreichische NSDAP im Juni 1933 ein bedeutender politischer Faktor bleiben konnte.

This book, based on economics and game theory, analyzes the changes that Japan is now facing as a reflection of changes in Japanese families and society.

The United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium have all undergone political devolution in recent years, with powers transferred from central government to regions and nations within these states.

This groundbreaking resource presents a wealth of findings and perspectives previously unseen in the LGBT literature.

This book traces the historical development of the network utilities sector in Australia (communications, rail, gas, electricity, water supply, and sewerage services).

In this attempt to determine the degree of power or influence possessed by the New Zealand private Member of Parliament, Robert Kelson has consulted parliamentary documents, the New Zealand press, and party documents.

First published in 1985, Decentralization provides an analytical framework for the comparative study of decentralization in contemporary systems of government.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the relationship between spirituality and the contemporary city, starting from a thought of Pope Francis claiming the need for a renewed look at the periphery among the current challenges for urban cultures.

This book portrays interesting aspects of communities where livability, comfort, materials, and traditional construction procedures are part of the cultural context.

This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF).

This is the first book focused on City Information Modelling (CIM) that puts together a collection of recent studies related to concepts and trends in CIM, application and digitization processes/methods, and frameworks and practices of CIM.

Diese Arbeit ist im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens entstanden, das unter dem Arbeitstitel "Fachwissen in der Politik.

Although efforts have been made and continue to be made to reduce the rate of HIV transmission in the U.

The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government - which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments - is often overlooked.

In January 2014, for the first time in the history of federal farm legislation going back to the Great Depression, all four members of the US House of Representatives from Kansas voted against the Farm Bill, despite pleas by the state's agricultural leaders to support it.

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.

Written by a team of leading authorities in the field, this collection provides a critique of the law as it applies to social work practice, and identifies key contemporary issues for social work.

This proceedings volume explores the concept of civil society as an engine for economic and social well-being.

In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: "e;We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Sustainable Public Management explores key issues in public sector sustainable management that span from Nation/State to local government.

Lokale Wohlfahrtsarrangements gerieten seit den 1990er Jahren unter erheblichen Druck.

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This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline.

This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population.

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 looks at the effectiveness of the 1999 restructuring of the UK through the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies for Northern Ireland and Wales, considering the process of devolution and its consequences on the key mechanisms of accounting and democratic accountability.

This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain.

  Minimally invasive surgery has impacted the outcomes of surgery more than any technology since the development of sterile technique.

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics.

Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local commercialization of health care.

This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states.

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international community to live up to the challenges of a planet that is out of control.

Despite committed effort to integrate postcolonial theory and decolonizing practices in human rights education in social work, there is scant literature offering a more balanced global perspective.

This book explores the organization and divisions of labour of domestic and care work in modern France and in so doing, reveals some of the drivers of and obstacles to change in the relationship between gender, the family, and the French state.

This book aims to draw careful distinctions between the various forms of housing insecurity and personal circumstances research participants experience.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may only be thirty-five years old but it is an important document for all Canadians.

This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform.

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system.

The ninth edition of this popular text has been expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas politics course.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of the status of children across society, with special reference to emerging features and measures of child safety, welfare, and overall well-being.

Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life.