Regional Government

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer s...

This study explores modern Scotland and examines how Scottish politics, culture and identities have interacted within the national and internationa...

This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven ...

This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public int...

This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia. Co...

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. Th...

India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic...

Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding mod...

Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated e...

Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that govern...

Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regenerat...

This unique study explores the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling. Focusing on Chinese illegal ...

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the att...

This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel Univ...

Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prom...

As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for comm...

This is the first book to provide an analysis of racism in the Mediterranean region. Ian Law reassesses contemporary processes of racialization, em...

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

This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overvi...

Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Po...

This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In...

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

Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, for...

This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the e...

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...