Regional Government

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our ...

Robert Wagner was New York City's true New Deal mayor, killed Tammany Hall. The world Wagner shaped delivers municipal services efficiently at the ...

This study addresses the management of victims and victim policy under the Coalition government, in light of an increasing move towards neoliberal ...

Analysing in-depth data from 11 European countries, this collection explores the rise of the European running market, the reasons and motives for r...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietname...

This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways! Bill McKibben, author of Falter Heather Lende was one of ...

Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and b...

This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, compari...

The 2011 secession of South Sudan spurred hopes for a more just, democratic Sudan, but was followed by new wars and growing unrest. This book exami...

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways ...

These essays by no means cover all areas of interest in long-term care programs, but they offer new insights (and intriguing questions for future r...

This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe. It highlights...

Free expression is under threat. Social media and fake news, misinformation, and disinformation have prompted governments to propose new forms of r...

This book provides rare insights into the nature of contemporary, technologically-facilitated government. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrat...

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book presents a carefully-designed ...

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globali...

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qual...

This is the first book to examine the processes of territorial federalization and decentralization of health systems in Europe drawing from an inte...

This book examines EU discourses on Turkey in the European Commission, European Parliament and three EU member states (France, Germany and Britain)...

This book is about the mundane, local, every day practices that constitutes democracy. Focusing on France and Finland, the book defines politicizat...

This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat...

Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situa...

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly ...

This handbook explores crime, deviance and punishment in the Caribbean with a focus on marginalized perspectives from scholars in the Caribbean. It...

This edited book brings together a range of expert voices academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads who are responding t...

Der Open-Access Band diskutiert das neue Bürgergeld in seiner sozialpolitischen Geschichte und Bedeutung. Das seit 2023 in Deutschland geltende Bür...

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope: Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation invites and demonstrates actions by academics in relation to some of t...

A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics. This is the first textbook which breaks free from the conventional approaches that revolve around th...

A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics. This is the first textbook which breaks free from the conventional approaches that revolve around th...

This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of Chinas way of economic development balancing between efficiency and equity, striving to in...

This how-to book on planning and managing GIS within local government describes and details the key components of a successful enterprise, sustaina...

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustra...

Recounts the volatile period following the end of the Civil War, when Southern whites were forced to concede equal rights to former slaves, usherin...

This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the worlds leading federal scholars and...

How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates ...

During the Qing dynasty (16441911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors ...

Offices in Brussels representing the interests of regional actors in the EU have carved out a niche position within Europe's expanding multi-level ...

Arguing that our laws are skewed to benefit entrenched homeowners, at the expense of newcomers and lower-income households, this book advocates bot...

This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are 'the least fashion...

This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today. It draws on HIV-positive peo...

The Scottish Labour Party is in an unprecedented position. Having been the leading party in Scotland for fifty years it lost an election and office...

The Scottish Labour Party is in an unprecedented position. Having been the leading party in Scotland for fifty years it lost an election and office...

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost is...

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost is...