Regional, state and other local government

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000.

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Angela Liberatore Governance shifted from a concept used by a few specialists to one quite widely (while surely not universally) used in policy making circles and pub- lic debate.

Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century.

This Brief discusses the role of state-level criminal justice organizations in the prevention and control of crime and delinquency.

This book systematically explores the lives and varied experiences of older people in South Africa.

The book provides comparative information about the materialization of the 2030 Agenda in urban policy in ten countries located in Europe and Latin America.

After a great deal of discussion and debate across all levels of government, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010.

This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies.

This volume presents the most robust and useful methodology for the derivation of investment criteria for the evaluation and planning of public investment projects - public investment criteria.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions.

Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields.

Competitive elections have become an institutionalized feature of contemporary Indonesia's politics.

This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music.

Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and workers.

This volume explores methods for studying child maltreatment in the context of neighborhoods and communities, given their importance in the lives of families.

Das VSOP Kursbuch liefert theoretische und praxisnahe Grundlagen zu den Kernaufgaben der Sozialplanung.

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings.

This edited collection interprets and assesses the transformation of Brazil under the Workers' Party.

The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history.

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.

This book presents new research on gender-based violence in Southeast Asia, bringing together varied scholarly work in law, policy, and practice.

Borders are changing in response to terrorism and immigration.

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 comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences.

This book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities.

Written opinions are the primary means by which judges communicate with external actors.

This book investigates the role of land titling in delivering sustainable means of poverty alleviation in developing countries.

Explores the programs and policies dependent parents navigated when their own financial resources did not provide adequate support.

A collection of essays representing forty-five years of reflection on the central problems of southern history bound together by a common concern with defining the crucial interaction of race and class in the formation of southern politics and life "e;The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible"e; writes the poet Derek Walcott.

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.

An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country''s long experience of crime.

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification.

This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics.

Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa.

Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard.

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 offers a selection of intensely researched essays focused on the critical planning objectives and policy priorities that would enhance the promotion of inclusive growth in a developing country.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period.