Regional, state and other local government

Mounting a vigorous critique on existing approaches to transnational policing, this book lays out an argument situating transnational policing within contemporary transformations of the capitalist state and imperialism, looking at the particular case of regional police cooperation against sex trafficking in Southeast Europe.

Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginias attorney general was suing to stop it.

In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland.

This broad and accessible text examines one of the most crucial issues facing western governments today: how to raise sufficient funds to meet the rising aspirations of their electorate for more and better welfare services.

Originally published in 1987, this title reviews and evaluates the methodologies suitable for highway evaluation, along with the UK transport supplementary grant and TPP (Transport Policies and Programme) system.

This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages.

Despite being Africa's largest economy and most populous country, with abundant natural resources, Nigeria still faces substantial development challenges.

Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics.

The 1990s were marked by democratic reforms throughout Africa, which went in tandem with decentralization reforms.

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations in four parts and from the perspective of how this has evolved in the UK.

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

This book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives.

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed.

This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s.

This book observes that an in-depth study exclusively focusing on health service trade not only strengthens the overall services trade capacity of the South Asian region, but also promotes global as well as regional trade.

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity.

This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy-institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum-endangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority.

This book analyses the nature of the contemporary racial state, exploring issues such as the nature of postraciality, racial neoliberalism, the state of multiculturalism and whiteness, alongside the functioning of state institutions and policy concerning the military, education, community surveillance, asylum and extradition.

2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World examines the ways in which two very different societies, Australia and Japan, have dealt with challenges to their cultural and institutional fabric, as well as the social cohesion arising from the acceleration of global interdependence during recent decades.

The captivating, colorful, and controversial history of South Carolina continues to warrant fresh explorations.

This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.

America's public parks are in a golden age.

Following a group of people as they make the transition from homeless to 'housed' , this book presents a new perspective on homelessness, the individual factors associated with it such as addiction, mental illness and traumatic life histories, and how welfare and poverty interact with these conditions.

Philippine political history, especially in the twentieth century, challenges the image of democratic evolution as serving the people, and does so in ways that reveal inadequately explored aspects of many democracies.

This is a critical examination of the impact of sustained large-scale austerity cuts on local government communications in the UK.

Die Krise des Sozialstaates ist offenkundig: Demographische Zwänge, klamme Sozialkassen, ungelöste Arbeitsmarktproblematik, steigende Unzufriedenheit der Bürger.

This brand new text examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented.

The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to.

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 offers comprehensive analysis for individual cases of poverty alleviation to facilitate respective in-depth key learnings and an overview of poverty alleviation strategies carried out in China.

A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s.

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this.

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s.

The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

Terry Thomas considers the use of criminal records within the criminal justice system and beyond - especially the growth of their use for pre-employment screening via the Criminal Records Bureau.

This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from America and Northern Europe.

The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West.

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

The ninth edition of this popular text has been expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas politics course.

This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021.

This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe.

Oswald von Nell-Breuning hat über Jahrzehnte die deutsche Sozialpolitik kritisch kommentiert und konstruktiv begleitet.

Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures.

This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007.

Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China's most notable political reform.