Regional, state and other local government

Most governments in the world - including many that are autocratic or authoritarian - have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security.

Most governments in the world - including many that are autocratic or authoritarian - have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' -Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' - Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' - Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

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

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes.

Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse.

Parliamentary ombudsmen are appointed to investigate citizens' complaints and to provide checks on government administrative activity.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may only be thirty-five years old but it is an important document for all Canadians.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may only be thirty-five years old but it is an important document for all Canadians.

During the past several decades, interest in children's psychological disorders has grown steadily within the research community, resulting in a burgeoning knowledge base.

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.

The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference.

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China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the fastest rate) and much faster than nations in western Europe.

Place is an important element in understanding health and health care disparities.

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field over the past 30 years.

As people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly?

Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well.

During the nearly 20 years of its existence, the Centro Mexicano para la Filantropia, A.

Poverty is a paradoxical state.

In the United States, work is the key to economic success, as well as the major source of health care coverage and retirement security.

As corporations and governments become more litigious and risk averse, international risk management becomes more complex.

The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the driving force taken by global cities.

The book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn.

Creating a sound security plan involves understanding not only security requirements but also the dynamics of the marketplace, employee issues, and management goals.

Written for corporation security officers, this work is designed to help them garner executive support and increased funding for their security programs.

This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the Sao Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017-2022).

This is a book about winning elections in an age when security has trumped almost every other issue and the technology of political effectiveness is evolving with lightning quickness.

Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment.

Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?

This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written.

Urban Politics brings together the classic and contemporary literature on urban politics and history with today's pressing urban issues.

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation.

One of the most important issues in comparative politics is the relationship between the state and society and the implications of different relationships for long-term social and economic development.

This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea.

Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe.

Shamanism, Racism and Hip Hop Culture is a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the five hundred year history of white Christian hegemony that has so profoundly shaped American society.

Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics.

Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered.

This work provides an accessible case study approach to European health care systems, medicine and nursing.

The introduction of market reforms has radically transformed China.

This book provides an up-to-date account of housing policy systems in eight countries - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore.

This book explores the diversity of social care provision for older people in six contrasting European countries.

How local contexts help us understand why White voters in America's heartland are shifting to the rightOver the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America's agriculture and manufacturing center have flipped from blue to red.