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This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-28
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Der Band thematisiert aktuelle Diskurse um Veränderungen und Herausforderungen in Organisationen der Sozialwirtschaft, die sich in politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kontexten, demografische Entwicklungen oder neuen Technologien abzeichnen. Es gilt, sich den sich...
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Springer VS
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2022-05-23
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This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen participation in multiple cities around the world,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-20
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Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve ‘Health in All Policies’: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-20
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
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This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.This book has been developed through...
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Springer
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2022-05-15
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Der Open-Access-Band stellt die Bedingungen, Verfahrensweisen und Organisationsformen einer gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklung von Gemeinden, Städten und Regionen in den Mittelpunkt einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung.Da Kommunen angesichts der Anforderungen...
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Springer VS
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2022-05-13
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This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the “World Factory”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-13
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This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia. Much study of core executives focuses exclusively on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
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Analysing the conditions under which governments are more likely to present an executive law or a government bill, this book addresses a central aspect of the decision-making process of public policies. Drafting legislation is an important action to achieve specific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-03
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This open access book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions of care systems, focusing mostly on expenditures and volumes of long-term care services, to outcomes, and in particular to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-03
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between communism (understood as an ideological, political, and social project) and culture, broadly defined as the field of aesthetic production. Communism was a global phenomenon, and the global civil war...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-03
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der kulturell hegemonialen Rolle der Mittelschichten in westlichen Gesellschaften sowie angesichts zeitdiagnostischer Behauptungen, dass „die Mitte" zunehmenden Verunsicherungen und Gefährdungen ausgesetzt sei, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-28
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This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well as their interrelationships.This book points to the need to include actors...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-27
Collection :
Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
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This book establishes theories and methods of climate change economics based on the perspective of human development. The book, in two volumes, consists of papers and research reports authored by Pan Jiahua or researchers under his guidance. Professor Pan Jiahua is a...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-22
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Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil demand. Single-use plastics – deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-04-21
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This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-12
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This book is the first to shed light on the recent opinion of taxpayers on tax and fiscal policy in Japan through an attitude questionnaire.
It is said that Japanese taxpayers’ tax morale is high. However, taxpayers in Japan are often described as having strong...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-04
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The global climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology cause profound anxieties for humanity. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in dire poverty-widening the gap in an already deeply divided economy. However, a new generation of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-04
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The purpose of the book is to elaborate a planning theory which departs from the plethora of theories which reflect the conditions of developed countries of the North-West.The empirical material of this effort is derived from a country, Greece, which sits on the edge...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-28
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This book focuses on ascertaining what distinguishes the Cold War that the U.S. sustained with the USSR from the one now emerging with China. By comparing their characteristics, it elaborates on how well prepared the US is to undertake this fresh challenge.
In doing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-20
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