Regional, state and other local government

Es gibt nur wenige Themen, die so stetig und intensiv im Mittelpunkt der politik- und rechtswissenschaftlichen, aber auch der öffentlichen Diskussion stehen wie die Politikfinanzierung.

This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics.

Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot of support from the United States federal and state governments in the name of energy independence and economic prosperity.

This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries.

First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual.

This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels.

Explaining local government, available at last in paperback, uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain from 1800 until the present day.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries.

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American Sociology has changed radically since 1945.

This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

Since the 1970s social security in the European Union has been dominated by attempts at reform and cost control.

This book, focusing on urban migration and public governance, reviews on the concepts and theories of urban migration and urban governance across the globe and sums up world migration trends and policy changes, coupled with the characteristics and types of China's urban migration.

This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa.

Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities.

This book aims to draw careful distinctions between the various forms of housing insecurity and personal circumstances research participants experience.

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation.

This book presents methods for full-wave computer simulation that can be used in various applications and contexts, e.

This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime.

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.

Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself: Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy presents papers that make the case that good governance is about thinking and practice that can lead to a better balance of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental concerns to ensure a sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations.

The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II.

While the gambling industry is indisputably large and powerful, it has received little attention from political scientists.

Mit der Einführung der "GeSetze für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt" erfolgte eine Neuausrichtung des Sozialstaatsmodells vom versorgenden Wohlfahrts- zum Aktivierungsstaat.

This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India.

Richard Hauser Irene Becker Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, FrankfurtlMain This volume marks the end of a research project of the editors titled "e;The Devel- opment of the Personal Distribution of Income in Germany"e; that was financed by the Hans Bockler Foundation from 1994 to 2001.

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory.

What is charity?

How Do Japanese Citizens Participate Politically?

This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today.

Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this has changed over time.

This book focuses on the socio-cultural changes and issues experienced in ASEAN and the European Union in the post-pandemic world.

El siglo XXI es considerado un momento de definición para la humanidad, si bien la mayoría de nosotros podría estar de acuerdo con esta idea, tal vez, en lo que no todos estaríamos de acuerdo es en la respuesta a la pregunta sobre ¿quién guiará a la sociedad por el camino que tendrá que recorrer para llegar al bienestar?

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This forward-thinking reference spotlights an expansive and inclusive community model for youth alcohol prevention as opposed to traditional individual and school-based group approaches.

Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.

This book compiles concerning important solutions for current and future global challenges to wellbeing.

A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states - political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition - zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo.

This collection of original essays breaks new ground by examining the dynamics of ethnic politics at the local level, rather than following in the footsteps of many previous studies which focus on the macropolitical level of states and nations.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent.