Regional, state and other local government

[A] remarkably revealing history.

This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering.

Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems.

The book addresses the situation of the urban world in Spain and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century.

This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of reaching positive peace.

Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as the dominant indicator of economic and social performance.

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics.

This book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services.

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 EU's 'social dimension' today is a product of the ideology of the 1990s.

As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.

Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War.

This book dives into the histories of nation-state-building and curriculum formation to explore the ways that they intertwine, form and inform each other.

In recent years, attacks on the rise of 'gender ideology' and 'genderism' as a political force, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans individuals seen to be their embodied representatives, have grown in scope and intensity.

This Compendium was conceived as a "e;pocket compass"e;, a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development.

In Europa schrumpft die Mittelschicht, was für eine Reihe von EU-Mitgliedsländern bislang kaum untersucht wurde.

Winner of the 2017 Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award of the APSA's State Politics and Policy Section.

Robert Wagner was New York City's true New Deal mayor, killed Tammany Hall.

This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research.

This book focuses on three aspects of people-centred urbanisation: theoretical exploration, empirical investigation, and policy analysis.

This book explains the variation and determinants of residential quality and housing preferences in urban private housing markets.

Wellbeing ist ein zentrales Konzept zur Erfassung der Zufriedenheit der Burgerinnen und Burger mit und in ihrer sozialen, politischen und okonomischen Lage.

On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 70/1, "e;Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"e;.

This book outlines a recommended Icelandic security force as part of the country's defence against sub-strategic threats such as human trafficking by criminals or border incursions by other states.

This volume investigates how much governmental control is needed to reign in corporate and business greed and to make business "e;socially responsible"e; in Asia.

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness.

This book examines how and where psychology can engage itself in the framing of social policies for national as well as human development in India.

This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world.

This book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods.

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes.

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

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

This book challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed (Manchester, England and Auckland, New Zealand).

Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis.

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 investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors.

The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides.

This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages - Pakistani Muslims and Indian Sikhs.

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

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done.

This book offers a collection of studies on various organizations' efficiency, criteria for evaluating efficiency, together with tools and methods for measuring efficiency.

This book traces the history of urbanization in China and discusses major problems and challenges the country is facing as it undergoes a profound social transformation.

This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas.

Sibling sexual abuse is believed to be the most common and long-lasting form of all intra-familial abuse, with estimates suggesting that it is five times more prevalent than parent-child sexual abuse.

This book presents an overview of social problems and health problems that arose out of, or were flared up by, the global COVID-19 pandemic.