Regional, state and other local government

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework.

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

Die Autoren beschreiben in diesem Essential anhand von Beispielen Schwierigkeiten, die beim Sparen auftreten.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.

This eagerly anticipated book equips readers to understand the dynamics of policy processes, relevant decision-making and the significance of key decision-makers.

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries.

The third, thoroughly revised and enhanced edition of this bestselling book analyses and discusses the most up-to-date research on the psychology of quality of life.

This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting.

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

Die Willkommenskultur des Jahres 2015 in Deutschland ist umgeschlagen in eine Abschiebepolitik der Bundesregierung mit Hilfe der (Um-)Definition sicherer Herkunftsländer.

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the challenges created by Europe's ageing population.

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Drawn from a decade of refugee studies, this book offers a wealth of insights on arts-based methodologies.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

This book focuses on the drivers of Jihadist terrorism and explains how a better understanding of these drivers can lead to more effective counterterrorism policies all over the world.

This book, the first comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia in 25 years, investigates the many dimensions of housing affordability and government actions that affect affordability outcomes.

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

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

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide.

This enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community's response through aid and trade.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality.

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.

This book gathers invited top experts on Public-Private partnership (PPP) in China, from both theoretical and practical fields, to present the most comprehensive analyses of PPP's practice in China up to 2017.

This book explores the institutional factors in social policymaking and implementation in China.

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives.

The book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales.

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2018, both in itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination.

This book discusses the historical transformation of the destiny of Chinese peasants under the contemporary political economic conditions, and tries to explore the institutional mechanism behind the formation and maintenance of these conditions.

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.

This volume combines approaches from three disciplines - economics, sociology, and demography - and empirically analyzes the key aspects of the labor market and social demography processes in post-Soviet transitional societies while focusing on the gender perspective.

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings.

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment.

This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities.

This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school-something that large educational bureaucracies are notoriously bad at.

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality.

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model.

In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more important than ever.

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels.