This book investigates the history of the post-war welfare state in Germany and its normative foundations, with special emphasis on constitutional issues.
This book explores, situates, and discusses the contours of urban inclusivity amidst and beyond the well-researched neoliberal turn in urban governance.
This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies.
This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region.
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.
First Published in 1931, The Development of Local Government presents a comprehensive account of the most important questions related to various aspects of local government.
In provocative terms that push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek propose a re-vamped US census based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing.
This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, employing cutting-edge Big Data and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) techniques.
This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course.
If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly for people on low incomes?
This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants.
This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings.
Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor.
This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact.
Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered.
"Ein Buch, das dem Gebildeten – aber nicht gerade nationalökonomisch Gebildeten – auf wissenschaftlich einwandfreie Art eine Orientierung in der Wirtschaftspolitik ermöglicht, hat meines Wissens bisher gefehlt.
This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects.
Explaining local government, available at last in paperback, uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain from 1800 until the present day.
This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research.
Drawing on theories in politics, sociology, gender and feminist studies, and social movement studies, this book compares and contrasts NGOized feminist organizations and informal street feminist groups in Belgium and Romania in order to understand the transformation of modern and contemporary feminist movements.
The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself.
This book draws together writers from various backgrounds to discuss issues that affect those working in rural social work settings, on themes ranging from current issues that are common to rural localities (including those arising from the Covid-19 pandemic) to future challenges.
