Regional, state and other local government

In Niedersachsen gibt es neben vielen kleinen Fließgewässern drei große Flüsse – Ems, Weser und Elbe.

This book explores the mechanisms by which top incomes are achieved through work in today's advanced economies and asks to what extent current extreme inequalities are compatible with widely held values of social justice.

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2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Finalist The Best Narrative & Biography Books of 2024, Selected by Porchlight When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses.

Winner of the 2017 Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award of the APSA's State Politics and Policy Section.

A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state.

This book offers a new interpretation of the evolution and modernization of social order in China's grass-roots communities.

This book examines deliberative democracy and its practical forms and applications in local government public policy.

The main aim of this book is to understand the interplay between the SDGs and urban health.

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the challenges created by Europe's ageing population.

Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and overall stability of authoritarian rule in China.

Anliegen dieser Einführung ist es, Bedeutung und Funktion zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen im Wohlfahrtsstaat zu thematisieren und einen Eindruck von dem sich wandelnden Verhältnis von Wohlfahrtsstaat und Zivilgesellschaft in Deutschland zu vermitteln.

This book examines the impact of population growth and urbanization on the household registration system in China.

This accessible book is about local democracy, civic engagement, political participation and community in Britain.

This book explores the ethical problems of algorithmic bias and its potential impact on populations that experience health disparities by examining the historical underpinnings of explicit and implicit bias, the influence of the social determinants of health, and the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities in data.

This edited volume lays the groundwork for Social Data Science, addressing epistemological issues, methods, technologies, software and applications of data science in the social sciences.

In the late 1990s the idea of cross-sector collaborations was relatively new in Europe.

Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK.

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems.

This eagerly anticipated book equips readers to understand the dynamics of policy processes, relevant decision-making and the significance of key decision-makers.

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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 volume addresses the family situation in Japan and Germany.

This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas.

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Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested.

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities.

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social-ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era.

The book explores the key factors affecting the successful implementation of public participation spatial systems in participatory planning as part of the urban governance system.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life.

This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea.

Christoph Homuth legt die bisher umfassendste Evaluationsstudie zu den Auswirkungen der G8-Reform vor, um belastbare Aussagen über die Ergebnisse einer der kontroversesten Bildungsreformen treffen zu können.

Though Americans rarely appreciate it, federalism has profoundly shaped their nation's past, present, and future.

Since the first elections of 1994, the South African constitution officially guarantees and promotes a wide range of political and civil rights and institutionalizes the separation of powers with an independent judiciary.

This book explores China's ambition to build itself into a maritime power.

California went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003.

The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint.

In this fascinating book, Madeleine Albright weaves together history, personal experiences, and brilliant analysis in exploring how religion can be a force for liberty and tolerance rather than oppression and terror.

This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords - known as shared ownership - to challenge everyday assumptions held about the 'social' and the 'legal' in property.

By extending the cast list of roles implicated in rape's hidden sphere of harm, this book attentively listens to experiential voices of complainant/witnesses, suspect/accused, police, lawyers, judges and jurors, therapists, advocates, partners, parents, family and friends during the criminal justice journey.