Regional Government

In Banned, readers are taken on a journey through the intense racial politics surrounding the banning of Mexican American Studies in Tucson, Arizon...

This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region. From urban renewal and pedestrianiz...

The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (the PAH, by its Spanish acronym) has left an important mark in the history of Spanish social movements...

Anticipatory Governance is the systemic process of future shaping built on the understanding that the future is not a continuation of the past or p...

The instant No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, updated with exclusive new material covering the turbulent events of 2024, including the serious health ...

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities. Urban wetlands are very valuable blue-green infrastructure spaces for huma...

International Organizations (IOs) have been at the forefront of responding to crises in the 21st century, and yet there is little comparative resea...

Cet ouvrage très attendu permet aux lecteurs de comprendre la dynamique des processus politiques, la recherche de pertinence dans les prises de déc...

This book analyses the changes of welfare states, examining their sustainability enabled by innovative adaptations. On the basis of evolutionary so...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceive...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceive...

This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka. It reasons out the importance of protecting Sri Lankan migrant w...

WHY HAS SUCCESS BEEN SO RARE IN AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUMS?From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful Voice referendum in 202...

This book considers some of the ways in which time appears and seemingly does it work through moments of crisis. What can different concepts of t...

This is an open access book. This OA book contains extensive research on social justice during Chinas transition period. Rather than taking a macro...

Soziale Sicherung im globalen Süden weist gegenüber dem Norden einige Besonderheiten auf: sie deckt einen kleineren Teil der Bevölkerung ab, bietet...

This book confronts one of the central questions of political science: how people choose to accept or not to accept particular governments. In cont...

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the...

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expec...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provi...

Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal ur...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and re...

Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representation Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old questi...

Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representation Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old questi...

This book compiles concerning important solutions for current and future global challenges to wellbeing. The purpose of this book is to provide hig...

The Science and Technology policy changes in post-Mao China cannot be complete without a historical narrative and analysis of Science and Technolog...

Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his bellybut probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had ex...

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities activities as borrowers. The early attempts to finance the building of t...

Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains co...

This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres. Economic, social and environmental uncertainty ...