Regional Government

This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author...

OR, Defence and Security presents eleven papers, originally published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the Journal of Simulat...

Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new ...

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circl...

In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat. This fascinati...

Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing tran...

An unprecedented glimpse into the multidimensional learning processes that take place when novice professionals develop the necessary communication...

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much...

While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rule...

Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to wh...

Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeas...

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American exper...

Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system su...

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-yea...

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Afr...

What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour governments were defeated? This e...

Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently. Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is pro...

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing go...

This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people...

Updated in its 2nd edition,Georgia Politics in a State of Change, explores Georgias constitution, politics, and government. It combines historical ...

This book considers psychoanalysis as an ethical enterprise, both on the level of the individual in analytic psychotherapy, and on the level of soc...

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popu...

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...

The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of socia...

This collection examines Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings toge...