Regional, state and other local government

This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences.

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

Originally published in 1970 this book quickly became a classic textbook.

A crucial warning for Americans about the lefts never-ending lust to steal individual liberties and the power of God to stop it.

This book focuses on the world's first publicly-funded body- the Criminal Cases Review Commission- to review alleged miscarriages of justice, set up following notorious cases such as the Birmingham Six in the UK.

For many, caring for a chronically ill family member is "e;the right thing to do"e;, but it is also often a source of emotional hardship, physical stress, and social isolation.

For many decades, Sweden was seen as a model welfare state.

This book explores how prison life is normalized in different countries, with a critical and detailed look at 'Scandinavian exceptionalism' - the idea that Scandinavian prisons have exceptionally humane conditions - and compares these prisons to ones in Belgium.

The book provides a critical analysis of the geographies of everyday life, looking at how spatial practices craft w(r)iggle room to cope with the boundaries saturated by normativity, power relations, and inequalities.

This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) - the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful.

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

Julia Hillmann stellt in diesem Buch die Frage, wie der Aspekt der Bekämpfung des Geburtenrückgangs in Japan als zentrales Motiv der Work-Life-Balance-Maßnahmen gegenüber dem Ziel, mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit zu schaffen, thematisiert wird bzw.

This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women's care responsibilities.

This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000.

In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients.

In this book, experts discuss how German real estate values have remained stable throughout the financial crisis, even though transaction volumes have been very volatile since 2005.

Kein Politikfeld ist den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern so nahe wie die kommunale Ebene.

This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over a variety of social identities, such as caste, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, tribal status.

This invaluable reference introduces successful strengths-based programs for aiding families of young children in critical social contexts: family, school, community, and policy.

This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure.

Corporate Citizenship - unternehmerisches Bürgerengagement - ist Gegenstand einer wachsenden Diskussion im In- und Ausland.

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader?

English local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government.

This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice.

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 book expands the concept of homeplace with contemporary Black homeschooling positioned as a form of resistance among single Black mothers.

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, and even changing constitutions.

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism.

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors.

CALIFORNIA: THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY, 10th Edition, explores the uniqueness and excitement of California's political environment through two key themes: diversity and hyperpluralism.

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 analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK.

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas.

This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system.

Is the objective that the European Union set itself in 2000, that is, to be the most competitive knowledge-based society and economy by 2010 still realistic?

Major Theoretical Questions Theories about subjective well-being have grown over the past several decades, but have been re ned only slowly as adequate data have been compiled to test them.

This book is devoted to the description and analysis of child population, rights to survival and development, culture and policies that Chinese government made in contemporary China.