Regional, state and other local government

This book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services.

Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving the way for general elections.

How do leaders and innovators drive change and improvement?

This accessible book is about local democracy, civic engagement, political participation and community in Britain.

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities.

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

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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of political institutions, the military establishment and political parties in Pakistan.

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.

This book includes peer reviewed article from the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Architecture and Construction (ICTAC-2024) held at Chandigarh in India.

Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often blamed for the country's failure to develop coordinated policy responses to key issues.

Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not.

One of the main objectives of the Unidad Popular ('Popular Unity') Govern- ment was to attain Chile's evolution towards more advanced forms of social organization within the framework of strictly respected democracy.

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.

This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments.

2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Finalist The Best Narrative & Biography Books of 2024, Selected by Porchlight When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses.

Die Studie analysiert den Gesundheitssektor aus regionaler Sicht und entwickelt eine Vergleichsperspektive für Deutschland bzw.

The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses.

Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience-doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them.

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

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe.

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This book explores how a place becomes a place in the Korean context, with a particular focus on power, knowledge, and strategy.

This innovative book explores micro-level neighborhood branding and the creation of distinct local identities in neighborhoods.

During recent years the financing of local government has become a key issue in developed countries.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard.

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

Explores the programs and policies dependent parents navigated when their own financial resources did not provide adequate support.

A study of how the role of party agents grew and became professionalised in local political parties.

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

This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication technologies.

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This book compares urban finances in cities located in two different South Asian countries and assesses their fiscal health.

This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but underexplored debt crises from different regional and socioeconomic contexts.

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy.