Regional, state and other local government

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

This book explores the European welfare model, arguing that the rollout of European policies for welfare services has led to increased marketization.

The author focuses on the research-policy nexus in development studies, highlighting reciprocal orientations and interactions between the domains of social research and of policy and politics.

Faced with unprecedented socioeconomic changes, China has increasingly embraced collaborative governance (CG), the sharing of power and discretion between and within public, private, and nonprofit sectors for public purposes.

Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.

This book investigates the political conditions and policies most likely to bring about progress toward inclusive development, drawing on in-depth analyses of four cases studies with distinct development trajectories (Mexico, Indonesia, Chile and South Korea).

This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses.

The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one.

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This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen's income (also known as a basic income).

This book discusses a new breed of racism, namely language racism, which is spreading both in the USA and in Europe, as well as other parts of the world.

The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.

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.

This book explores how the federal courts have addressed the two primary federal statutory protections found in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act and how law mediates conflict between workplace expectations and the realities of pregnancy.

This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

This book provides an account of milestone health insurance reforms that took place in Korea and Thailand, which significantly advanced equitable access and redistribution in health care.

This book focuses on all issues related to the human right of child primary education.

What is charity?

This book analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK.

The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory.

Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years.

Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World examines the ways in which two very different societies, Australia and Japan, have dealt with challenges to their cultural and institutional fabric, as well as the social cohesion arising from the acceleration of global interdependence during recent decades.

Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948.

Gypsies and Travellers have often been overlooked as victims of hate crime and discrimination.

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.

Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited.

The EU's 'social dimension' today is a product of the ideology of the 1990s.

This book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries - a topic scarcely researched to date, as it is largely part of the informal economy, and consequently often invisible to official statistics.

This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East.

Despite explicit commitments to gender equality, women experience complex modes of disadvantage and discrimination in all nations of the world.

Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments.

Reproductive technology allows us to test embryos' genes before deciding whether to transfer them to a woman's uterus.

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between.

Michele Bachelet, Chile's first female president, was elected with an explicit gender agenda in 2006 and then reelected in 2013.

As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting subject in productive and provocative ways.

Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored.

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.

The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health.

With immigration fulfilling the role of population maintenance in many Western democracies, how should newcomers be welcomed?

This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.

An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties.

This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration.

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society.

This book describes the various tactics used in counter-recruitment, drawing from the words of activists and case studies of successful organizing and advocacy.

Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding modalities and participation are used to shape health reform in African countries as well as the role of African actors, global policy elites and international donors within these processes.

Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that government support is essential to help small farmers gain the skills, financial capital, and opportunities needed to transition to a profitable alternative in the non-farm sector.

Over the past three decades, professions across the European Union have faced significant and radical challenges.

The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas.

Multifaceted social problems like disaster relief, homelessness, health care, and academic achievement gaps cannot be adequately addressed with isolated and disconnected public service agencies.

This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to support the development of household services across Europe.