Regional Government

This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration. Using ethnographic methods to illustrate an experiential theory...

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...