Regional Government

The Sunsphere, World's Fair Site, and Neyland Stadium are Knoxville landmarks of pride and passion, history and culture. But anyone who has resided...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection of urban planning, transportation, technology, and smart city development. With a ...

This book examines the Democratic and Republican Governors Associations from their creation in the 1960s through the 2020 elections. The author arg...

A collection of state of the art reflections by fourteen leading experts in the field of multinational federalism. Seymour and Gagnon have gathered...

A Critical Humanitarian Intervention Approach explores ways of reconceptualising security in terms of Ken Booth's Theory of World Security. This ap...

This book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British gover...

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

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 tha...

Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigat...

This book focuses on all issues related to the human right of child primary education. It addresses issues of access to education, the benefits of ...

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Var...

This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Cameron develops a...

Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out co...

This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in leg...

Black Muslims in the U.S. seeks to address deficiencies in current scholarship about black Muslims in American society, from examining the origins ...

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contribution...

Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intell...

From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and r...

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examinati...

In a social and political environment that has become more accepting of gender equity, women's health issues have emerged in the forefront of the s...

This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Lenskyj argues that Putin's Russia and the Inter...

This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the rea...

Katherine Tonkiss offers a succinct account of constitutional patriotism theory, specifically arguing that it involves a commitment to free migrati...

This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism. It offers an original perspective on British multiculturalism and also presen...

This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending ...

The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social...

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...

This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strat...

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...

This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years...

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argue...

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...

Public policy systems often sustain chronic capacity stress (CCS) meaning they neither excel nor fail in what they do, but do both in ways that are...

Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. Our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting o...

This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across th...

Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public disco...

A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgi...

American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of ...

Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the politi...

Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a...

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impe...

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impe...

This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community dev...

This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and pol...

This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in f...

This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social pro...

This book argues that Americans' belief in post-racialism, rooted in both ideology and material progress among racial minorities, is wrong because ...