Regional, state and other local government

Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis.

This book examines how map-based collaboration software can facilitate negotiations in areas undergoing contentious pressures for significant change.

Throughout the modernized world, a massive, bureaucratic apparatus of state welfare has been built up since the 1940s.

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality.

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate change and segregation.

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy.

The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West.

This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation.

The latter third of the twentieth century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to choose Republican candidates over Democrats.

This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.

Over recent decades, decentralization has emerged as a key Public Sector Reform strategy in a wide variety of international contexts.

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.

Focuses on the theories that highlight policymaking complexity and explains complexity in a way that is simple to understand.

Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling.

In The American Road Katherine M.

This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region.

Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories.

Jeb Bush: Aggressive Conservatism in Florida describes the rise of John Ellis (Jeb) Bush, the second son of former President George H.

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done.

First Published in 1931, The Development of Local Government presents a comprehensive account of the most important questions related to various aspects of local government.

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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.

This book assumes an "e;everyday life"e; perspective towards masking in public spaces in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book analyzes the aims, activities and structures of cross border migrant organizations in four European countries of arrival and seven countries of origin, exploring different patterns of cross-border resource mobilization and coordination.

This book explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the United Kingdom.

Across Europe the protection of 'social cohesion' has become an important political objective.

The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions.

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies affords a comprehensive, pioneering and interdisciplinary survey of this emerging field.

How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them?

This book explores the shift towards individual responsibility that is increasingly evident in welfare systems across the world.

Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provision.

A comprehensive presentation of political life in Israel from the pre-state formative period to the present.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries.

Community engaged universities prepare students to participate in societies in ways that are inclusive.

American Politics in the Age of Ignoranc e looks at ten policy myths and bad ideas that governments and public officials - most often conservatives - consistently repeat and re-enact.

Originally published in 1957, this book gives a comprehensive account of the scope and variety of the work previously performed by Scottish Government departments in Whitehall during the second half of the 20th Century.

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.

This contributed volume is the first-known collection of essays that brings together scholarly review, critiques, and primary and secondary data to assess how sociocultural factors influence health behavior in South Asian women.

The 17 chapters in this book, which evolved from a conference on measuring the contributions of ITS sponsored by the California Department of Transportation in February 2002, examine the costs and benefits of ITS in an economic and business policy context.

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy.

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.

This book analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK.

The first analysis of how victims of crime and human rights abuses access justice in Latin America through private prosecution.

An analysis of think-tanks in Britain and Germany and their role in the re-making of the British Labour party and Germany's Social Democrats as 'Third Way' parties.

Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008.

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking.

This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states.