Regional Government

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts ...

This comprehensive edited collection draws together the latest international literature on offender compliance during penal supervision and after c...

This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author...

OR, Defence and Security presents eleven papers, originally published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the Journal of Simulat...

Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new ...

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circl...

In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat. This fascinati...

Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing tran...

An unprecedented glimpse into the multidimensional learning processes that take place when novice professionals develop the necessary communication...

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much...

While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rule...

Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to wh...

Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeas...

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American exper...

Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system su...

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-yea...

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Afr...

What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour governments were defeated? This e...

Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently. Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is pro...

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing go...

This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people...

Updated in its 2nd edition,Georgia Politics in a State of Change, explores Georgias constitution, politics, and government. It combines historical ...

This book considers psychoanalysis as an ethical enterprise, both on the level of the individual in analytic psychotherapy, and on the level of soc...

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popu...