Regional Government

Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provisi...

What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Fo...

Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global mor...

Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national inf...

Russia 2025 offers a compelling insight into Russia's future by exploring thematic scenarios ranging from politics to demographics. The widening ri...

Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the...

Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book ...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public offic...

With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develo...

This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic...

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervisi...

Adjudicating Employment Rights compares and analyses institutions for resolving employment rights disputes in ten countries. In addition to detaile...

This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long ...

The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population a...

This third edition of West Virginia Politics and Government offers a recent study of the changing dynamics of politics in the Mountain State. Since...

Africa's contributions to global technological advancements are often overlooked, with many scholars claiming that the continent has yet to contrib...

This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and S...

This book provides a definitive account of the creation and rise of the international Indigenous Peoples movement.In the late 1970s, motivated by t...

This book provides a definitive account of the creation and rise of the international Indigenous Peoples movement.In the late 1970s, motivated by t...

Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the ...

We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workp...