Regional, state and other local government

As a consultant for healthcare associations working on all the healthcare laws from Medicare, the Health Manpower Act, Budget Reconciliation, Clinton healthcare efforts and the Affordable Healthcare Act, Donald Lavanty had a front-row seat from which to witness the politics and policies motivating each action.

This book offers a unique approach to reconciliation as a matter for negotiation, bringing together two bodies of theory in order to offer insights into resolving conflicts and achieving lasting peace.

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized.

North Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural dividethese issues are all brought into sharp relief in the Tar Heel State.

This book investigates the professional needs and training requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in Australia and the United Kingdom.

The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe.

This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens.

This book provides comprehensive information about various types of gender-based violence (GBV) and abuse.

This book discusses the issues of inequality and marginalization in India.

This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas.

This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments.

As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy.

Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe.

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social-ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era.

This fully revised fourth edition of a well-respected textbook seeks to build social workers' confidence in legal interpretation and implementation - practitioners must not only know the law; they must also have a critical appreciation of its implications for human rights, civil liberties and social justice.

Wie beeinflussen Eliten weiterhin die Entwicklung von Kommunen in postsowjetischen Landern Europas?

Originally published in 2006, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state's recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as how Mississippi shaped and was shaped by national and regional trends.

This short book focuses on the Disappearances that occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Drawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities.

Drawn from a decade of refugee studies, this book offers a wealth of insights on arts-based methodologies.

This book traces the historical development of the network utilities sector in Australia (communications, rail, gas, electricity, water supply, and sewerage services).

This book explores the role of scientific evidence within United Nations (UN) deliberation by examining the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by Member States in 2015.

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future.

Familienfreundlichkeit hat sich als ein Strategiethema für Städte, Gemeinden und Unternehmen etabliert.

Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives.

This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways.

This exciting book is an innovative and creative critique of the theories and practices of feminism, arguing that it still matters in the 21st century.

This is the first book focused on City Information Modelling (CIM) that puts together a collection of recent studies related to concepts and trends in CIM, application and digitization processes/methods, and frameworks and practices of CIM.

This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015.

This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia.

"e;A thorough yet concise overview of California institutions, politics, and initiative process, grounded in an overview of Californias political culture.

The purpose of this volume is to explore sustainable innovation and "e;fair development"e; in China.

The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial.

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

This book is a collection of stories and reflections that represent Chinese American leaders and depict their tortuous journeys in U.

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification.

As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for communication and political action.

The book presents the proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2020), which took place online on October 27-29, 2020.

This book explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the United Kingdom.

Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government.

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

The purpose of the book is to elaborate a planning theory which departs from the plethora of theories which reflect the conditions of developed countries of the North-West.

Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities.

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

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The classic book that established the principles and methods of modern intelligence analysisWith the outbreak of the Second World War, historian Sherman Kent left his classroom at Yale to join the Office of Strategic Servicesthe forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agencywhere he adapted scholarly methods to the rigors and unique challenges of producing actionable intelligence in support of the war effort.