Regional Government

During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...

This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, an...

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threa...

In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The autho...

This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or ...

This book approaches current controversies concerning qualitative and quantitative procedures in the social sciences and incorporates new methods s...

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins...

This is the first in-depth analysis of the transition from the RUC to the PSNI seen through the eyes of key figures, inside and outside the organiz...

Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines criminal ...

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how th...

In Wales Unchained Daniel G. Williams explores how Welsh writers, politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves and have been defined by o...

Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control...

Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysi...

The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...

Shifting demographics. Downstate versus Chicago. Billionaires and bribery. Even veteran observers need a roadmap to track Illinois ever-changing p...

During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...

Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the pivotal decade of 2002-2012....

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constit...

This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have change...

ASEAN's role as a security provider remains largely a matter of scholarly debate. Through the lens of the concept of regional security partnership,...

Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational pol...

This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of t...

Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's new middle powers and emerging powers employ public diplomacy...