Regional, state and other local government

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

This unique volume demonstrates the effectiveness of applying an evidence-based practice process to the solution of selected social problems.

Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China's most notable political reform.

A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century.

Based on in-depth fieldwork, Tim Glawion explores how local security functions in some of the world''s most fragile states across Central and East Africa.

This handbook highlights a range of ground breaking, radical and liberatory clinical and critical community psychology projects from around the world.

This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators.

This handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of quantitative science and technology research.

This book examines the policies, conducts, and performances of organizations tasked with developing medium and high technologies in Iran.

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.

Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung zu theoretischen Bezugsbegriffen aus Politik und Sozialwissenschaften, aber auch in Charakteristika und Grundstrukturen freiwilligen Engagements.

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation.

This book focuses on the issue of financial exclusion with particular reference to the urban informal sector in India.

The book reveals how the 'social value of art' may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist - and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and interpretation.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

This book explores the possibilities of understanding the concept of climate refugees in order to ascribe to a consensual agreement that climate refugees are evident and this situation is a reality.

How do leaders and innovators drive change and improvement?

This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage.

This book, focusing on urban migration and public governance, reviews on the concepts and theories of urban migration and urban governance across the globe and sums up world migration trends and policy changes, coupled with the characteristics and types of China's urban migration.

In today's world, citizenship is increasingly defined in normative terms.

This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings.

This book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban policies and governance by presenting novel perspectives on municipal entrepreneurship support policies.

The present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks.

Local Governments' Financial Vulnerability presents a conceptual framework developed to examine how vulnerable local finances were before and in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by mapping and systematising its dimensions and sources.

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

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

The present work investigates global politics and political implications of social science and management with the aid of the latest complexity and chaos theories.

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity.

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

Nations built on exclusion and assimilation, decades of civil war, widespread poverty, authoritarianism and the decline of democracy.

Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments.

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.

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.

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

This book presents perspectives by eminent economists, social scientists and policy makers, exploring in depth the post-reform developments in India, including issues pertaining to growth and equity, issues which have been at the core of life-time work of Prof.

Public broadcasting has changed dramatically since its founding in 1967.

This handbook explores the various ways in which disability sport is governed and organised across Europe, as well as examining the extent to which persons with a disability participate in sport at the grassroots level.

This timely analysis examines the complex state of youth unemployment across Europe and offers cogent policy suggestions for addressing this longstanding societal problem.