Regional, state and other local government

Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme.

What is public health?

What is public health?

This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion.

This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion.

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade.

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade.

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This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy-institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum-endangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority.

This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy-institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum-endangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority.

Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens.

Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens.

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.

Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida - have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill.

Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida - have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill.

This book examines how map-based collaboration software can facilitate negotiations in areas undergoing contentious pressures for significant change.

Over recent decades, decentralization has emerged as a key Public Sector Reform strategy in a wide variety of international contexts.

Over recent decades, decentralization has emerged as a key Public Sector Reform strategy in a wide variety of international contexts.

Local government passed unscathed through the political and economic upheavals which followed the Great Depression.

Local government passed unscathed through the political and economic upheavals which followed the Great Depression.

The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government - which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments - is often overlooked.

The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government - which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments - is often overlooked.

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

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

Is the 'golden age' of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state?

Is the 'golden age' of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state?

Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city.

Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city.

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

First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government.

First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government.

This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China.

This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China.

Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on behalf of a range of policies.

Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on behalf of a range of policies.

Creating Human Value (CHV) is a powerful public management theory that places the person at the centre of all decision-making.

The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West.

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

This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences.

America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences.

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa.

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa.

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings.

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings.

Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region.

Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region.

The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating.