Regional, state and other local government

Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

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

Over the past two decades, society has been witnessing how technological, political, and societal changes have been transforming individual and collective urban mobility.

This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement.

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

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism.

This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies.

This book draws on empirical work to examine the debates surrounding domestic violence disclosure schemes (also known as Clare's Law), focussing on England and Wales with comparisons to similar jurisdictions.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

This book explores the role of scientific evidence within United Nations (UN) deliberation by examining the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by Member States in 2015.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

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

This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare.

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 provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time.

This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the "e;everyday genius"e; to drive innovation, free market competition, artistic influence, and other advances that will allow humanity to overcome its greatest challenges.

This book offers the first ever book-length treatment of the topic of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood with autism and the attendant ethical, legal and social issues for the individual as well as caregivers and professionals.

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.

This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas.

"e;Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.

Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve 'Health in All Policies': an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts.

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

'This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities.

The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion.

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

Undertaking a journey into the "e;hybrid governance"e; of urban food movements, this book offers an original and nuanced analysis of the urban milieu as epicentre of food activism and food governance.

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

This book brings together reports of original empirical studies which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses.

This edited book draws on a cross-cultural and historical lens to theoretically and practically analyse gambling regulations and the use of gambling revenue.

Honorable Mention: 2022 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies (ASEEES)This book examines Ukrainian state gender politics and investigates how gendered subject positions and policy discourses are constructed within and through social policies.

This book explores the consequences of the last three decades' substantial neoliberal securitisation of freedom of speech, democracy and social security of racialised groups.

This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states.

This book examines the ways that brothels are managed under decriminalisation in New Zealand.

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

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the movement towards co-production of public services and outcomes, a topic which has recently become one of the most intensely debated in public management and administration, both in practice and in the academic literature.