Regional, state and other local government

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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.

La presente obra reúne trabajos de especialistas de diversas universidades, centros de investigación, organizaciones de la sociedad civil e instancias gubernamentales con diferentes perfiles académicos y profesionales, quienes desde variados y diferentes enfoques y perspectivas trabajaron en torno al debate sobre la gobernanza rural en México.

Incluye un anáisis de las 52 microrregiones y 29 complejos productivos seleccionados por CEPAL, la infraestructura regional, matrices origen y destino de las cargas y el soporte de los diferentes modos y medios de transporte y logí­stica asociada.

Although Mexican emigration to the United States is still relevant, it has also become a return, transit, and recipient country for thousands of refugees.

This book provides an overview of the relationship between Reagan administration initiatives and the US.

This book discusses social, institutional, legal, cultural and political topics relating to the West Bank to demystify the treatment of the highly contentious subject.

This book analyzes the international relations of Mexico and the two most important sub-state governments of the United States, California and Texas.

This brief approaches the challenging topic of child sexual abuse from an objective, evidence-based perspective.

This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy.

This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability.

¡La inversión y el cambio es visible en Chimalhuacán!

This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of social welfare system in a rentier state, Qatar, tracing its evolution and institutional development.

This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism.

This book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state, focusing on three European national parliaments, namely the French Senate, the Italian Chamber of Representatives and Senate, and the Croatian unicameral parliament.

This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia.

Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control, this book examines the various ideals, outcomes and effects that citizen participation has been held to stimulate and how these have been transformed, renegotiated and reinvigorated over time.

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge.

This is the first book to provide an analysis of racism in the Mediterranean region.

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment.

MTD es un método inspirador y efectivo para mejorar, transformar y desarrollar cualquier Municipio o Ayuntamiento.

Der tiefgreifende Wandel von Industrie- und Dienstleistungssektor setzt die Beschäftigten in Deutschland zusehends unter Druck.

What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis?

Examining the evolving responses to immigration, migrant integration and diversity of substate governments in Quebec, Flanders and Brussels, and Scotland, Fiona Barker explores what happens when the 'new' diversity arising from immigration intersects with the 'old' politics of substate nationalism in decentralized, multinational societies.

This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order.

Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the political processes within Muslim communities and the impacts these have on civic engagement.

This volume contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and of how to achieve environmental gain in regional economic programmes.

Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out contemporary issue advocacy in the context of an understanding of American politics.

Finland is the undisputed pioneer in architectural education.

This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence.

This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

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

Containing state-of-the-art contributions on the various domains of European media policies, this Handbook deals with theoretical approaches to European media policy: its historical development; specific policies for film, television, radio and the Internet; and international aspects of the fragmented policy domain.

This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health.

Examining essential aspects of American life, John Budd investigates how informational sources (print and broadcast media and other resources) fall short when it comes to informing citizens, failing our democracy and damaging the public good.

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there.

This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria.

This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in favour of or opposed to the expansion of solidarities.

This book argues that Americans' belief in post-racialism, rooted in both ideology and material progress among racial minorities, is wrong because both old and new patterns of racism continue to hinder the acceptance of African Americans as true equals in American society, despite the recent mobility of the black middle class.

This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood.

This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores  the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.

This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistribution.

This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations - particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored.

Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure.