Regional, state and other local government

First published in 1966, Local Government in Crisis presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges and limitations of the local government in Britain.

This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability.

This book conducts a detailed examination of the current form of the Hong Kong residential property regulatory system: the 2013 Residential Properties (Firsthand Sales) Ordinance (Cap 621).

Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer.

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?

The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.

This handbook explores crime, deviance and punishment in the Caribbean with a focus on marginalized perspectives from scholars in the Caribbean.

This book provides a comparative account of the abolition of concubinage in East Asia, offering a new perspective and revised analysis of the factors leading to - and the debates surrounding  - the introduction of a new Marriage Reform Ordinance in Hong Kong in 1971.

In 2016, Americans fed up with the political process vented that frustration with their votes.

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common.

This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots level in India in the early 1990s.

This volume seeks to trace certain tendencies and developments in social policy in Western Europe and the United States.

A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics.

Das Themenheft "75 Jahre Niedersachsen" erinnert an die frühen Jahre des Landes Niedersachsen, das 2021 auf ein dreiviertel Jahrhundert Geschichtezurückblicken kann.

This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

This book explores the previously overlooked negative environmental impact of the sports industry, with a particular emphasis on the carbon footprint of sports facilities and organizations.

This book discusses the crucial place that assumptions hold in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating development programs.

This book characterizes a type of city, i.

Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario.

9 Dieser Ansatz ist im Kontext der europäischen Gemeinschaftsbil­ dung in doppelter Hinsicht unzureichend.

The American national debt stands at $20.

In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue.

This edited collection develops a more balanced understanding of the dilemmas, challenges and opportunities associated with youth policy formulation and implementation in contemporary Saudi Arabia.

This book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make a huge difference to humanity's endeavor to recover from current crises and build a sustainable future.

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The author focuses on the research-policy nexus in development studies, highlighting reciprocal orientations and interactions between the domains of social research and of policy and politics.

This edited book was produced through a transnational and transdisciplinary UNESCO Chair Project on Gender and Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction Support.

This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice.

This book provides the most current thinking on effective interventions in the lives of criminal offenders.

The book explores interlinkages between women's employment and fertility at both a macro- and a micro-level in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland.

Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements.

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 24 European nations, examining the state of the development and practice of CSR and sustainability for organizations in these countries.

This book explores the lived experience of unemployment from a critical social psychological perspective.

This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies.

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This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today.

The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang violence resulting in high death rates among young black men, causing both outrage and fear.

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 explores human well-being in South Asia from a policy dimension.

Je austauschbarer die Produkt- und Serviceangebote der verschiedenen Anbieter werden, umso bedeutsamer werden Image und öffentliche Wahrnehmung von Unternehmen als Instrument der Absatzpolitik und Kundenbindung.

This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world's well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city.