Regional, state and other local government

Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work introduces the key ideas of evidence-based clinical social work practice and their thoughtful application.

This book explores online resilience and safety from a new perspective, by drawing extensively upon the youth voice.

The book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales.

International Society and the Middle East brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society.

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health.

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 book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options.

In der vergleichenden Regierungslehre wird die "föderale Demokratie" nicht als eigenständiger Typus betrachtet.

This book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of agricultural communities in southern India, from their historical roots to the recent global neo-liberal era.

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.

Originally published in 1974, this book filled a gap in its examination and evaluation of the way in which English local government forms a part of democratic society.

This book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy.

Over sixty years ago, political scientist V.

Dieses Buch macht den Leser mit den zentralen Fragestellungen und dem analytischen Werkzeug der Gesundheitsökonomik vertraut.

Selected by Princeton University as Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics for 2010.

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina.

Volume I of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales frames what was known about crime and criminal justice in the 1960s, before describing the liberalising legislation of the decade.

Drawing on the writings of diverse authors, including Jean Baker Miller, Bell Hooks, Mary Daly, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire and Ignacio Martin-Baro, as well as on women's experiences, this book aims to develop a 'liberation psychology'; which would aid in transforming the damaging psychological patterns associated with oppression and taking action to bring about social change.

California went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003.

Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States.

This book looks at the patterns and trends of participation in Indian elections since 1952 - the first elections held in independent India.

Stefanie Märtin untersucht die Bedeutung der Lebensform und des Geschlechts für die materielle Lage bei Erwerbsminderung.

This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities.

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide.

This book argues that the substantial life and property loss caused by urban flooding might not be a pure result of a vulnerable physical environment-social factors, especially the individual attributes and capacities, could have pivotal roles to play in the resilience discourse as well.

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

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

Buchs analyses the goals and instruments of the Open Method of Coordination, discusses approaches which theorize its functioning, examines its policy content and develops a framework for its evaluation.

This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores  the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.

This book is an earnest effort in understanding the slums and their needs by taking a case study of Kalaburagi, India.

In recent years, Republicans and Democrats have drifted toward polarized immigration policy positions, forestalling congressional efforts at comprehensive reform.

"e;Winner of the 2014 Kulp-Wright Book Award Presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association"e;.

This book, companion to Foundations of Location Analysis (Springer, 2011), highlights some of the applications of location analysis within the spheres of businesses, those that deal with public services and applications that deal with law enforcement and first responders.

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities.

This brief introduces a human rights approach to social work research and evaluation, compares it to traditional research approaches, and explains how to apply it in real world social work research.

The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world.

This book provides a vantage point of comparison, of the actual reality of decentralisation in India with Gandhi's vision of decentralised democracy, or what he referred to as Gram Swaraj.

In the past, lack of understanding at the nexus between the forest sector on the one hand and strategic management on the other, has led to failures in many countries to realise the potential that forest sector development offers.

This book is the first attempt to introduce the current status of archival practices in Japan as well as the basic views of the populace on making records accessible to English readers.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors.

Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era.

The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to.