Regional, state and other local government

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies.

The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial.

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.

Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense - cities.

This second edition book advances knowledge about criminal careers throughout life.

This book arises out of papers delivered at the World Congress of the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) held in Cape Town in 2008.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt systematisch in das breite Spektrum von Geschichte, Strukturen, Problemlagen und Lösungswegen der Sozialpolitik ein.

Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a site where hi-tech medicine and vulnerable human beings come into close contact.

The Missouri legislature passes a bill to flout federal gun-control laws it deems unconstitutional.

Originally published in 1992, Capital Mobilization and Regional Financial Markets, argues that barriers to financial flows within regions may be as important in affecting capital flows as interregional barriers.

This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.

This book critically explores civic republicanism in light of contemporary republican political theory and the influence of republican models of citizenship in recent developments in civic education across a number of Western nations.

This book analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK.

Originally published in 1978, this book covers all aspects of the development of local authorities; the changing types of people who worked in them - solicitors, trade unionists, politicians and reformers; the growing influence of political parties in local affairs; the widening concept of the purpose of local government and the attendant financial problems; the partnership and conflict with central government; the rise of the associations of local authorities and their influence over the many proposals to change the structure of local government in the late 20th Century.

This book is the first of its kind to take concepts directly from the most commonly used textbooks in state and local politics and apply them directly to current events.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

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

The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents'.

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy.

This book is an essential clinician's guide to understanding, unpacking, treating, and healing individual, familial, and communal wounds associated with parental incarceration.

This volume provides an extensive overview of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Just as one might be inclined to thinkthat every thing about demographic change has been already said and heard, a new dimension opens up.

The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.

Full-scale political change affects every level of a society, but perhaps nowhere as strikingly as in the areas of crime policy and law enforcement.

The book provides a pioneering overview of the evolution of the local government and urban policy in Cape Verde after independence, offering a multi-scale perspective of local governance in Cape Verde from 1970 - 2020.

This book discusses how to measure the level of development of an economy, particularly, the task of ranking economies in terms of their development.

Myanmar has faced numerous divisions that hinder its democratization and peacebuilding processes since emerging out of decades of military dictatorship.

This book pays attention to education in India as part of several overlapping stories developed along different axes:  stories of dissent, contestations, appropriation and social action.

Municipal image-building now promotes cities globally, and also to their own citizens.

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 new volume showcases the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives.

This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust.

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking.

Our societies are ageing.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of "e;local liabilities"e;, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.

This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Guido Thiemeyer zeigt am Beispiel von vier europäischen Staaten (Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutsches Reich und Italien) sowie für die USA, wie sich zwischen 1865 und 1900 ein internationales Währungssystem entwickelte.

In this volume, the authors reflect on the question "e;what is socialism"e; as it pertains to today's economy.