Regional, state and other local government

Traditionally, men's mental health woes have been attributed to male stubbornness and rigid notions of masculinity.

This book presents range of topics concerning integrated CAD (including Optimization) for use in Architecture (including Planning), Civil Engineering and Construction (AEC), and thus, helps introduce a full-length treatment of the subject, enabling practitioners to adopt an Integrated Computer-Aided Design Approach in their professional activity.

This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.

This book presents range of topics concerning integrated CAD (including Optimization) for use in Architecture (including Planning), Civil Engineering and Construction (AEC), and thus, helps introduce a full-length treatment of the subject, enabling practitioners to adopt an Integrated Computer-Aided Design Approach in their professional activity.

This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective.

The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion.

A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.

This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide.

"e;Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

Whereas 'democracy' assumes a single demos or people, 'demoi-cracy' refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples.

Stephen L.

Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginias attorney general was suing to stop it.

Building on the notion of everyday(ness) as a conceptual tool and a study object in urban research, this book presents 10 case-studies describing and questioning how cities and urban spaces are lived, experienced, interpreted, (self-)produced and/or appropriated.

This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds.

Now in its ninth edition,Power and Politics in California continues its tradition of asking Californians to take a hard and systematic look at their state governance, and engage themselves in a critical analysis of what is working, what is not, and what changes need to be made for the state to meet the increasingly formidable challenges it faces.

Comparing five Central American countries, this book explores the influences of criminals, activists, and other societal actors on the justice system.

In diesem Buch wird einer qualitative Studie zur intergenerationellen Armutstransmission in Deutschland vorgestellt.

Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from 'niche' actors in party systems to mainstream political players.

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.

A unique collaboration providing an analysis of the conflict in Syria, focusing on the integration between legal and political studies.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education.

This book provides critically examines how recent international developments in victims theory and policy are experienced within specific local contexts.

This book is a comprehensive work which incisively analyses, from a theoretically informed perspective, crucial aspects of India's journey from partial divestiture to privatisation, accompanied by case studies of enterprises being privatised in FY 2022.

The ninth edition of this popular text has been expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas politics course.

This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities.

This book focuses on data analytics with machine learning using IoT and blockchain technology.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires,  continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century.

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.

This book examines the gun-related policy responses to three school shooting incidents in the United States.

In diesem Kompendium führen 40 Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus insgesamt 25 Hochschulen gemeinsam in die wichtigsten Bereiche der Politischen Ökonomie ein und beleuchten die verschiedenen Teilbereiche jeweils aus Sicht beider Disziplinen.

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

This book explores the consequences of the last three decades' substantial neoliberal securitisation of freedom of speech, democracy and social security of racialised groups.

This book is a comprehensive work which incisively analyses, from a theoretically informed perspective, crucial aspects of India's journey from partial divestiture to privatisation, accompanied by case studies of enterprises being privatised in FY 2022.

Starting Over traces the remarkable political career of former Virginia Governor and U.

Conceptualization and measurement of poverty have traditionally relied on purely economic approaches, with income or consumption as the only indicator.

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states.