Regional, state and other local government

Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body', Beckett proposes a new model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'.

We present a Machine Learning (ML) approach to monitoring and classifying noise pollution.

At a time when resources are scarce, not every crime may be investigated as fully as is desirable.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the relationship between spirituality and the contemporary city, starting from a thought of Pope Francis claiming the need for a renewed look at the periphery among the current challenges for urban cultures.

This volume is unique because of its focus on small states.

The United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium have all undergone political devolution in recent years, with powers transferred from central government to regions and nations within these states.

​Für die Lösung komplexer, gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen sind soziale Innovationen von enormer Bedeutung.

Urban Politics blends the most insightful classic and current political science and related literature with current issues in urban affairs.

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

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First published in 1997, this volume presents the results of in-depth research into the application of the UK homelessness legislation in relation to community care, the Children Act 1989, violence to women, and racial harassment.

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.

Participatory governance has a long history in India and this book traces historical-intellectual trajectories of participatory governance and how older Western discourses have influenced Indian policymakers.

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This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

This book explains, in a straightforward way, the foundations upon which electoral techniques are based in order to shed new light on what we actually do when we vote.

This is an excellent new contribution to current academic and policy debates, and will be of great interest internationally to all students, researchers, public sector managers and policy makers.

Am Beispiel des Beschäftigungszuschusses untersucht Philipp Ramos Lobato, ob öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung dazu beitragen kann, die soziale Integration von Langzeitarbeitslosen zu verbessern.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation.

Procedure is not just a programme or a nexus of formalities.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.

This text offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states.

China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform.

The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at first.

Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch.

This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened.

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade.

A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike.

This book investigates the alarming of fatalities among migrant workers.

Due to the accelerating demographic change of the population the reform of the existing pension systems constitutes one of the greatest political challenges in most European countries.

Few provisions of the American Constitution have had such a tumultuous history as the contract clause.

Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and livelihoods of such cities.

In recent years the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has impressively progressed.

This book traces raciolinguistic ideologies in England's schools, focusing on post- 2010 policy reforms which frame the language practices of low-income, racialised speakers as limited and deficient.

This book uses mixed methods to extend the concept of "e;wellbeing stocks"e; to refer to dynamic ways of working with others.

The book gathers the emerging technologies and applications in various disciplines involving green building, smart infrastructure and 3D Printing, which are presented in high-quality papers of GBCESC.

The Western world is in a downward spiral.

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities.

This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world.

This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America.

This book assesses Ecological Migration and Precision Poverty Alleviation Measures, based on research conducted in Ningxia.