Regional, state and other local government

Is the 'golden age' of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state?

This book answers the question why London has been a stronghold for the Labour Party for relatively long periods of the last century and continues to be so to this day to an extent that surprises contemporaries.

Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited.

This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses.

The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped what it means to be a European citizen.

This book provides an overview of the current planning paradigms and technical strategies to cope with climatechange, specifically flooding.

Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrants to Spain translate and transfer cultural and political memory from one land to another.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations.

Life must be understood as the result of evolution, and human life as the emergence of the species Sapiens from the genus Homo of the family of apes.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders' engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic.

This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field.

This book describes the political, social, and economic connections between gender and the Covid-19 pandemic.

This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens.

Goings-on in Northern Territory politics from 2012-2016 may read like satire, but it is all true.

Money-related stress dates as far back as concepts of money itself.

This book presents the results of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development.

La presente obra reúne trabajos de especialistas de diversas universidades, centros de investigación, organizaciones de la sociedad civil e instancias gubernamentales con diferentes perfiles académicos y profesionales, quienes desde variados y diferentes enfoques y perspectivas trabajaron en torno al debate sobre la gobernanza rural en México.

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.

This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society.

This volume examines the process of decentralisation in India since the 1992 legislation which devolved powers to local government bodies to ensure greater participation in local governance and planning.

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots.

The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland.

This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond.

Based on data from the most recent elections, this book examines state house races in four key states California, Texas, Michigan, and Virginia and creates simulations of campaign planning, strategizing, budgeting, fundraising, and winning in a variety of political contexts.

In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: "e;We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior.

LGBT-Parent Families is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive examination of this underserved area.

Finanzen, Haushalt, Steuern – der Fiskus im Föderalismus Fiskalföderalismus erörtert in vergleichender Perspektive die finanz- und haushaltspolitischen Grundlagen von Föderalstaaten, zu denen aktuelle Themen wie Kompetenzverteilung, Steuererhebung und -verwaltung, Finanzausgleichssysteme sowie Verschuldungsverbote zählen.

Assisting someone with Alzheimer's disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family.

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.

As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs.

In California Politics Is Local, Brett L.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations.

This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets.

Based on data from the most recent elections, this book examines state house races in four key states California, Texas, Michigan, and Virginia and creates simulations of campaign planning, strategizing, budgeting, fundraising, and winning in a variety of political contexts.