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This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China's poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society.

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

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.

This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities.

Nearly all countries in the world are experiencing an aging of their populations due to declining fertility rates and rising longevity.

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present.

Im vergangenen Jahr feierten die erste württembergische Verfassung, die Weimarer Reichsverfassung und das Grundgesetz jeweils runde "Geburtstage".

This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion.

Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not.

The majority of Latin Americans now live in countries that are governed by democratically elected governments on the political left, which is unprecedented in that region.

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for poverty alleviation among women based on empirical investigations and social work practice.

The book discusses the demographic changes in Muslim countries.

Ausgehend vom Fallbeispiel des "Nacktscanners" untersucht diese Ethnographie den Aufstieg neuer Überwachungs- und Sicherheitstechnologien seit dem Jahr 2000.

For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists.

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme.

This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s.

This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia.

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities' activities as borrowers.

This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare.

This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and racial conflicts, fiscal pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Policy Making in the Public Interest is the first text and workbook to provide a short and firmly focused introduction to local government policy making techniques.

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work.

The book deals with technological governance of cyberspace and threat landscape, with a special focus on the Indian context.

This book explores small town geographical aspects by approaching them from a socio-spatial perspective.

This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of living compare to those experienced by the old in the recent past.

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the "e;tyranny of the majority"e;.

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 2022 iteration of the ISPGAYA meeting, titled "e;Multidimensional Sustainability: Transitions and Convergences"e; and held on September 29 and 30th, 2022 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

'Totally absorbing and highly readable account of a remarkable life .

Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner.

This edited collection brings together interventions on the geographies of tourism in pandemic times approached from a biopolitical perspective.

The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy.

In this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle.

This book discusses social entrepreneurship, especially in context of India.

This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

This book explains how government support and institutional set up facilitated the evolution of the Indian pharmaceutical industry and provides an economic analysis of firm strategies due to recent policy changes.

It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office.

Das Buch besteht aus drei Teilen: (I) Grundlagen der Politischen Ökonomik.

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.