Regional, state and other local government

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The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy.

We live in an age of global migration.

This book explores the consequences of the last three decades' substantial neoliberal securitisation of freedom of speech, democracy and social security of racialised groups.

With contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts.

Heike Stecklum untersucht bürgerschaftliches Engagement von psychisch erkrankten Menschen vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen Transformation in Ostdeutschland.

Poverty is a paradoxical state.

This is the first in-depth analysis of the transition from the RUC to the PSNI seen through the eyes of key figures, inside and outside the organization.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of "e;local liabilities"e;, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.

This book analyzes the link between economic and political inequalities and investigates the mechanisms that lead to economically rooted inequalities in the political representation of citizens' policy preferences.

This book delves into the multifaceted concept of sustainability, placing a particular emphasis on the social dimension and its intersection with economic and environmental considerations.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.

First published in 1982, Approaches in Public Policy is an integrated, purpose-written text on the context, process, and practice of policymaking in the public sector, particularly at the local level.

This book focuses on the issue of financial exclusion with particular reference to the urban informal sector in India.

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

This edited volume examines strategies to make future cities more sustainable.

Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate this influence.

This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well as their interrelationships.

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV.

With the exception of Sri Lanka, South Asian countries have not achieved quality basic education - an essential measure for escaping poverty, inequality, and social exclusion.

This book takes an in-depth look at China's national economic development strategy promulgated by the CPC at its Nineteenth National Congress, held in October 2019, from a historical and scientific perspective.

Research on global norm diffusion and institutional transfer has often neglected the agency of the governed.

In response to changes in internal needs, external organizational environments, and the expectations of shareholders - most notably, citizens and politicians - innovation is now an important common-place aspect of governance and the running of public service organizations.

The field of intergovernmental relations has changed substantially over the past five decades.

This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights.

Ein langanhaltender, überregionaler Stromausfall führt in kurzer Zeit zu erheblichen Störungen in allen Sektoren kritischer Infrastrukturen mit schwerwiegenden Folgen für die Bevölkerung.

This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain.

This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of ?

This volume describes and analyzes alternative and emerging models of non-territorial autonomy (NTA), particularly in relation to decentralization.

In this book, George Robert Bateman, Jr.

Mit der Einführung der "GeSetze für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt" erfolgte eine Neuausrichtung des Sozialstaatsmodells vom versorgenden Wohlfahrts- zum Aktivierungsstaat.

China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the fastest rate) and much faster than nations in western Europe.

Explores reasons why a specific group of organized conservatives threaten its own leadership, and what could improve its likelihood of success.

Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948.

Kein Politikfeld ist den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern so nahe wie die kommunale Ebene.

This book examines desistance from offending amongst men in County Cork - the largest county in the Republic of Ireland.

This book analyses theoretically and empirically why some single mothers are less disadvantaged than others.

This collection examines the social and cultural legacy of Thatcherism in the 21st century.

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society.

Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot of support from the United States federal and state governments in the name of energy independence and economic prosperity.

Bildung wird heute ganzheitlich betrachtet: Sie umfasst nicht nur die formale Bildung in Schule, Hochschule und Ausbildung, sondern auch die vielen informellen und nonformalen Bildungsgelegenheiten im Lebensumfeld.

The thematic project 'New Orleans in the Atlantic World' was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city's identity and destiny belong to the broader Caribbean and Atlantic worlds as perhaps no other American city does.