Regional, state and other local government

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.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

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

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues, policies, and strategies for addressing the symptoms and root causes of violence against women (VAW) in sub-Saharan Africa.

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

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

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.

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness.

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time.

This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe.

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state's fast track land reform programme.

This book provides fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive.

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

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales.

This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies - largely in the UK, but some also in Europe - researched by a team of social scientists who share a commitment to social justice and equity in education.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies.

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present.

This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts.

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so.

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 analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

The book provides a contemporary 'snapshot' of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy.

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.

This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations.

In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the movement towards co-production of public services and outcomes, a topic which has recently become one of the most intensely debated in public management and administration, both in practice and in the academic literature.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies.

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

This brief approaches the challenging topic of child sexual abuse from an objective, evidence-based perspective.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations.

This book presents an original contribution to the study of care and care work by addressing pressing issues in the field from a Latin American and intersectional perspective.

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa.

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.

This book explores the nature and impact of stalking and criminal justice system responses to this type of abuse based on the experiences and lived realities of victims.

This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections.

This book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the 50-year development of the personal social services in England, located throughout the changing ideological, political and relevant professional contexts of the period.

Sitting at the nexus of labor migration and health care work, this book examines the dynamic relationship between nurses' cross-border movement and efforts to regulate their migration.

This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality.

This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK.

This important text provides a comprehensive survey of homelessness in America: its scope and causes, its diverse populations, and the array of responses at the individual, community, and systems levels.

This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations.