Regional, state and other local government

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

How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them?

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection of urban planning, transportation, technology, and smart city development.

This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms.

Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory.

This book explains how religious politics, repressive institutions, and leaders'' political strategies intersected in the US Global War on Terror.

This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debate on the existence of a European public sphere.

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

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

This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media.

Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from 'niche' actors in party systems to mainstream political players.

The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability.

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.

This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders' engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic.

The framers of the U.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period.

The purpose of this volume is to explore sustainable innovation and "e;fair development"e; in China.

Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party?

The book reveals how the 'social value of art' may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist - and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and interpretation.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality.

First Published in 1952, The Local Government Service describes in general terms the character and extent of the tasks which the body of public servants employed by the local authorities is called upon to perform.

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe.

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

Tensions between central authorities and subnational units over centralization and fiscal autonomy are on top of the political agenda in many developing federal countries.

Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often blamed for the country's failure to develop coordinated policy responses to key issues.

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.

This volume brings together multiple diverse perspectives from around the globe on quality of life and community well-being from a place-based perspective.

The South was not always the South.

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

Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver.

This book examines disability hate crime.

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people.

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

Now in its ninth edition,Power and Politics in California continues its tradition of asking Californians to take a hard and systematic look at their state governance, and engage themselves in a critical analysis of what is working, what is not, and what changes need to be made for the state to meet the increasingly formidable challenges it faces.

Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management.

South Sudan is the world''s youngest independent country.

The introduction of market reforms has radically transformed China.

This volume presents the unique features of child abuse and neglect and discusses proposed as well as experimented protective measures to create awareness about child rights and their implementation.

Written by a team of leading authorities in the field, this collection provides a critique of the law as it applies to social work practice, and identifies key contemporary issues for social work.

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationThe Innovations in American Government Awards Program began in 1985 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to conduct a program of awards for innovations in state and local government.

This work analyzes the necessity of changing Japan's present defense policy.

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This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador.