Regional, state and other local government

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit einer Reihe von provokanten Fragen auseinander: Warum sind die heutigen Gesellschaften so abhängig von den konstruktiven und destruktiven Auswirkungen der Individualisierung?

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland wurde von den Ländern aus gegründet.

This book fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of the refugee crisis by analyzing the dynamics that lie behind fifteen years of asylum policies in the European Union.

This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over a variety of social identities, such as caste, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, tribal status.

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services.

This edited book brings together a range of expert voices - academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads - who are responding to domestic and sexual violence (DASV) in various settings.

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public.

Das dreibändige Werk beinhaltet die wichtigsten Themen der Volkswirtschaftlehre im Rahmen eines Bachelorstudiums.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

This is the first book to examine behavioral theories on social preference from institutional and philosophical perspectives using economic experiments.

This book first attempts to explore the nexus between urban innovation and sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries.

This book provides a range of highly accessible approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and in news media reporting.

Local Disaster Management explores what resilience means for local communities and local governments on the front line of responding to disasters and emergencies.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may only be thirty-five years old but it is an important document for all Canadians.

This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels.

Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost.

This book presents papers from the 10th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on education and inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable communities.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time?

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice.

This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments, views on energy taxation and tariffs, and effects of EU energy policy.

Das Neue Archiv für Niedersachsen wird zweimal jährlich von der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zum Studium Niedersachsens e.

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

The system of the pacific settlement of disputes contained in the United Nations Charter - confirmed in 1970 in the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States - is based on agreement between the parties on both the method to be applied and the acceptance of its results.

This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms.

A policy-focused approach to understanding the role of interest groups in US municipal governments.

This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 economic crisis.

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 presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia.

Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.

Gypsies and Travellers have often been overlooked as victims of hate crime and discrimination.

Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory under successive waves of modernization, yet it continually re-emerges as a key principle of social, economic, and political organization.

This textbook provides an accessible, practical guide to the strategic planning process required for the preparation of city plans from entire metropolitan areas to town centres.

Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.

This volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States, have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds.

Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways.

This book discusses a crucial paradigm shift in urban planning and architectural design, addressing the urgent need for sustainability  and adaptation in the face of rapidly changing climate and urban landscapes.

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms.

This is the first of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state.