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This book provides a fresh narrative of policy reforms to support low-income workers in France and the United Kingdom in recent decades. It tackles the puzzle of why two institutionally-distinct welfare states came to make use of similar instruments – including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-19
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This book examines metropolitan governance and interjurisdictional collaboration in Latin America, focusing on the “metropolitan problem” created by fragmented jurisdictions that produce inefficiency, inequity, and weak coordination. Moving beyond...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-11
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This book questions through a critical lens how resources can be mobilized to advance the development of environmental resilience and economic growth, examining new financial mechanisms, policy frameworks, and strategic partnerships. Using case studies, emerging...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This volume deals with the determinants of both good and bad health, at individual as well as community levels, or in a broader sense, all of which are determined by multiple, critically interlinked actors that are surprisingly concentrated within the built environment....
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors. It reveals how communities, women, and youth mobilize solidarity, informal practices, and everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book investigates the internal dynamics and mechanisms that shaped one of the European Union’s most ambitious and far-reaching pieces of digital legislation: the Data Act. While the importance of data to the economy and society has been widely acknowledged,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book considers the ramifications of the term 'cultural democracy' from a variety of perspectives. In recent years, the concept of cultural democracy has gained traction in cultural policy and academic discourse, while manifesting itself on a practical level in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book is a compilation of the papers and posters that have been accepted and presented at the Global Conference on Economic Diversification 2024. The main subject of the Global Conference on Economic Diversification (GCED) 2024 was to address methodological,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Drawing on interviews with over 50 women in rural villages in Ghana, this book analyzes the poverty of older, rural, and illiterate women in Ghana within the framework of the feminization of poverty. The book demonstrates that alleged gains in gender equality are not...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book dives into in-depth case studies across Thailand’s low-lying coastal regions and its rapidly changing urban centers. It focuses on main coastal provinces and regions, where multidisciplinary research shows how hydro-meteorological hazards (such as storm...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines fair citizen participation as a key element of effective policy support. Over the past two decades, many countries have embraced more reflective and inclusive governance in environmental policymaking.
This book demonstrates how democratic and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book addresses the various challenges that arose during the two periods of Indonesian President Jokowi's administration. These included the global economic crisis, increasingly complex geopolitical dynamics, such as competition between major powers, the Covid-19...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Die demografische Alterung setzt die Finanzierung der europäischen Alterssicherungssysteme zunehmend unter Druck. Insbesondere die öffentliche Altersvorsorge bietet einen großen sozialpolitischen Spielraum für die Gestaltung der Einkommensverteilung...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Capitalism is hitting the buffers. Unable to handle the various crises that its inherent logic of growth, profit, and competition has produced, it has led the world into a state of emergency - with the authoritarian right on the rise globally and progressive forces...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-30
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This open access volume focuses on the various processes of state formation and the significant role that organization, citizens, and institutions are coming to play in forming policy in the resource-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. As rentier states, they...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-12-27
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This book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms “surveillant care”—a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-24
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This concise and interdisciplinary open access volume explores the imperative of social policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential nature of such a reform. Its chapters study social policy changes that have been made before and during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This open access book assesses the links between decentralization and crises management in Czechia, paying particular attention to the ways in which local municipalities have dealt with turbulent problems including the Covid-19 pandemic and the migration crises caused...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book presents a fresh perspective on how bilateral relations are shaped not only by national-level diplomacy but by the interplay of various governance levels-including municipal, regional, national, and supranational actors. Through this approach, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book aims to elucidate the operational mechanisms of transfer of land development right within a public ownership system, which not only offers a distinctive and dynamic case study on TDR program to advance institutional diversity in transitional economies, but...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-14
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