Regional, state and other local government

In der aktivierenden Sozialpolitik müssen erwerbslose Personen immer höhere Anforderungen bewältigen, um sich in der Zeit der Arbeitslosigkeit zu bewähren.

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

Planning for Urban Country addresses a major gap in knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into Australia's built environment contexts.

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences.

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain.

This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots level in India in the early 1990s.

While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion.

This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions.

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.

Updated through 2012 with all-new material in every chapter, Schain's book provides a detailed, comparative look at the policies that drive and inform immigration politics in three Western countries, and shows how immigration policy has political sources far beyond labor market needs.

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 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries.

The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls.

In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.

This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public intellectuals, to explore how media and communication practices for social change are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms.

This book provides an overview of the ongoing transition in China's health system, especially focusing on the new healthcare reform initiated in 2009.

In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called "e;Hartz IV reform"e;.

This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances.

This comprehensive edited volume conceptually develops the notion of 'de-Europeanisation' as an important development in the literature on Europeanisation, and applies it specifically to the case of Turkey.

This book clarifies the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the Chinese Path through historical and market logic.

This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

This book analyzes the consequences that would arise if Germany's means-tested unemployment benefits were replaced with an unconditional basic income.

This book focuses on the drivers of Jihadist terrorism and explains how a better understanding of these drivers can lead to more effective counterterrorism policies all over the world.

"e;Ethics, Hunger and Globalization"e; adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This book, with a focus on the establishment of urban public security risk prevention and control system, carries out a comprehensive review and a comparative study of its development.

Throughout the early years of the 20th century, Virginia was viewed as a Republican state.

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the "e;tyranny of the majority"e;.

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

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

Gilbert Ziebura l Nach der Arbeit von Gustav Schmidt über die britische Appeasement-Politik legt Traute Rafalski nun die zweite grundlegende Monographie vor, die im Rahmen des von mir geleiteten Forschungsprojektes über die Außenpolitik Deutschlands, Frank­ 2 reichs, Großbritanniens und Italiens während der 30er Jahre entstanden ist .

Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population creates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin from a bi-national perspective.

The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700.

This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect.

This book reviews the development of China's social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage.

This book provides a brief history of the notion of development and  related policies.

This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres.

Delving inside the state, Hassan shows how leaders politicize bureaucrats to maintain power, even after the introduction of multi-party elections.

Das Buch bietet einen von den Rezensenten anerkannten kompetenten Überblick über Geschichte, Theorie, Handlungsfelder und Reformprobleme der staatlichen Sozialpolitik.

Despite a centralized formal structure, Chinese politics and policy-making have long been marked by substantial degrees of regional and local variation and experimentation.

The construction of the Panama Canal at the beginning of the twentieth century created an enclave that ran parallel to the interoceanic waterway, controlled by the US government: the Canal Zone.

Based on micro-level empirical research, this book uniquely addresses the problem of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh in a comprehensive way.

This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s.

The impact of illness on individual lives and society at large was once considered too vast to gauge.