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This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple s...

This title was first published in 2003. How was public policy and economic development in Nigeria affected under the period of military control bet...

CHOICE Recommended Title, March 2019This book brings together diverse new perspectives on current and emerging themes in space risk, covering both ...

This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of the nature, cause...

This title was first published in 2003. How was public policy and economic development in Nigeria affected under the period of military control bet...

This title was first published in 2003.The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market econom...

This title was first published in 2002. This provocative volume explores key aspects of the contemporary relationship between the United States and...

By the year 2050, the population of the United States is projected to be approximately half white and half non-white. Yet the knowledge of child d...

What are the factors that shape domestic violence policy change and how are variable gendered meanings produced in these policies? How and when can...

The worlds key resources of energy, food and water, which are closely connected and interdependent on each other, are coming under increasing press...

2nd and 3rd year core modules/courses on Family Policy and Comparative Social Policy. Also Women's Studies - 2nd and 3rd year core component of soc...

Providing a historical appraisal of bubble investments, and blending theory with field observations, this insightful work will benefit academics, r...

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus ...

First published in 1984, Hugh Clouts work contributes to one of the most debated and important topics of the time, the European Economic Community....

Russian domestic politics has long been both labyrinthine and pragmatic, at once both inordinately complex and breathtakingly dynamic. The same can...

The UK is experiencing a housing crisis unlike any other. Homelessness is on the increase and more people are at the mercy of landlords due to unaf...

This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the governance space framework for analys...

This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots ...

This title was first published in 2003.The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market econom...

This book looks at the rationale behind the Belt and Road Initiative by China, and attempts to explain the motivation from economical and historica...

For the first time since its founding in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a new paradigm for its role in China. Abandoning its f...

Statutory Nuisance and Residential Property: Environmental Health Problems in Housing examines the statutory nuisance provisions in the Environment...

This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics.Drawing on the literature on securitization, security lo...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

Successive South African governments have had controversial views on HIV and AIDS which have led to allegations that South Africa is in a state of ...

Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in i...

At a time when Latin America is experiencing societal unrest from human rights violations, corruption and weak institutions Government and Governan...

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Wash...

This book focuses on three aspects of people-centred urbanisation: theoretical exploration, empirical investigation, and policy analysis. The book ...