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Book SynopsisThere has been increased attention to the topics of disaster recovery and disaster resilience over the past several years, particularly as catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy have brought to light the increasing vulnerability of so many communities. This manuscript brings together existing research, along with policy analysis, in order to look at disaster recovery through the lens of justice. This includes understanding the mechanisms through which vulnerability is exacerbated, and the extent to which the regulations and agency cultures drive this outcome. While existing analyses have sought to understand the particular characteristics of both resilient and vulnerable communities, there have been few attempts to understand the systemic inequities and injustice that is built into United States disaster policies, programs, and legislation. This manuscript thus begins from the understanding that social and economic structures, including land use policies and historic practices such as redlining, have concentrated hazard risk into vulnerable zones whose inhabitants do not benefit from the very policies that create and increase their risk. Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Chapter 1 Introduction1.1 Applying a Justice Paradigm1.2 Conceptualizing Justice1.3 Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience1.4 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud1.5 Survivor Agency1.6 Social Capital and Collective Efficacy1.7 Public Policy and Legislation1.8 Implementation Challenges1.9 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation1.10 Disparate Outcomes1.11 Resilience for Whom?1.12 Defining Just Recovery 2. Chapter 2 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud2.1 Deserving Victims2.2 Duplication of Benefits and Appeals2.3 Fraud, and the Corrosive Community2.4 Deserving Corporations2.5 Government Corruption2.6 Deserving Victims, Post-Disaster Fraud and Justice 3. Chapter 3 Survivor Agency3.1 Survivor Agency3.2 Collective Efficacy and Social Capital3.3 Reclaiming Agency3.4 Survivor Agency and Justice 4. Chapter 4 Public Policy and Legislation4.1 U.S. Disaster Policy4.2 Federalism4.3 Federal Disaster Programs4.4 Human Rights and Disaster Recovery4.5 Public Policy, Legislation and Justice 5. Chapter 5 Implementation Challenges5.1 Program Implementation5.2 Implementation of Existing Policies and Programs5.3 Using Current Policies and Regulations to Promote Just Outcomes5.4 Implementation Challenges and Justice 6. Chapter 6 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation6.1 Disaster Risk Creation6.2 The Safety Premium6.3 Considering Justice in Resilience 7. Chapter 7 Disparate Outcomes7.1 Poverty and Economic Hardship7.2 Impacts to Public Housing7.3 Renters7.4 Displacement7.5 Just Recovery 8. Chapter 8 Conclusion: Resilience for Whom?8.1 Revisiting Just Recovery8.2 Person and Community Centered Recovery  

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Book SynopsisSwiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public administration, there are other factors which make a country successful. The authors argue that Switzerland is an interesting case, from a theoretical, scientific and a more practice-oriented perspective. While confronted with the same challenges as other countries, Switzerland offers different solutions, some of which work astonishingly well.Trade Review“The book is of interest to novice and experienced scholars as well as practitioners and has the potential to address a wide audience inside and outside Switzerland. … the book is inspiring, informative and well-structured, it is reader-friendly and up-to-date and closes a relevant gap on the book market. I am sure that this format will soon be followed by similar introductions to other countries, as the format as well as the elaboration are persuasive.” (Nathalie Behnke, Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 25 (2), 2019)Table of ContentsIntroductionSociety, Government, and the Political System Andreas LadnerThe Organization and Provision of Public Services Andreas LadnerThe Characteristics of Public Administration in Switzerland Andreas LadnerThe concept of Law and the principe of legality Sophie WeertsThe preparliamentary phase in law-drafting : the power issues at stake Christine Guy-EcabertThe Federal Administration as an actor in the domestic integration of international law Sophie Weerts / Amalia SophiaSoft Law Instruments in Public Law Alexandre FlückigerJudicial federalism and constitutional review in the Swiss Judiciary Pascal MahonThe new model of Swiss public management Jean-Loup ChappeletPublic Private Partnerships: A Swiss Perspective Laure Athias / Moudo Macina / Pascal WichtIn-depth modernization of HRM in the public sector: the Swiss way Yves EmeryCommunication and Transparency Martial PasquierThe Road to Digital and Smart Government in Switzerland Tobias MettlerFinancial management system, legislation and stakeholders Nils SoguelThe Swiss way of presenting the governments’ financial statements Nils SoguelTax power and tax competition Nils SoguelFiscal Equalization: Financial transfers between governments Nils SoguelSocial security policy Giuliano BonoliHealth Policy Josef Philipp TreinPolicy Networks and the Role(s) of Public Administrations Frédéric Varone / Karin Miryam Ingold/ Manuel FischerFactors contributing to the strong institutionalization of policy evaluation in Switzerland Katia Horber-Papazian / Marion Baud-Lavigne

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the many changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and in its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014). It is undoubtedly the institution that has evolved the most since the 1950s. Despite the many crises experienced by European integration in the last years, the Parliament is still undergoing important changes in its formal competences, its influence on policy-making, its relations with other EU institutions, its internal organisation and its internal political dynamics. Every contribution deals with the most recent aspects of these evolutions and addresses overlooked topics, providing an overview of the current state of play which challenges the mainstream intergovernmental approach of the EU. This project results from research conducted at the Department of European Political and Governance Studies of the College of Europe. Individual research of several policy analysts of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) have contributed to this endeavour.Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: The need for further research on the European ParliamentOlivier CostaPart I The EP and the EU Political System1 Parliamentary oversight: Challenges facing classic scrutiny instruments and the emergence of new forms of ‘steering’ scrutiny Eva-Maria Poptcheva2 The European Parliament and the European Council. A shift in the balance of power? Wolfgang Wessels, Johannes Müller Gomez and Johannes Wolters3 The CJEU and the Parliament’s powers since Lisbon. Judicial support to representative democracy? Sabine Saurugger and Fabien Terpan4 The relationship between the Committee of the Regions and the European Parliament: an evolving relationship? François Decoster, Jennifer Rousselle and Vincent DelhommePart II The EP in the EU Policy Making5 Taming Trilogues – The EU’s Law-Making Process in a Comparative Perspective Justin Greenwood and Christilla Roederer-Rynning6 The European Parliament and EU secondary legislation: Improved Scrutiny Practices and Upstream Involvement for Delegated Acts and Implementing Acts Vicky Marissen 7 Out of balance? Practical experience with quasi-legislative Delegated Acts 2009-2017 Michael Kaeding8 The European Parliament’s contribution to the EU Budget: a power game Anne Vitrey and Frederik Mesdag Part III The EP Politics9 The European Parliament and Civil Society Amandine Crespy and Louisa Parks10 Parliamentary questions and representation of territorial interest in the EP Nathalie Brack and Olivier Costa 11 The arduous way towards a uniform electoral system for the European Parliament Rudolf Hrbek 12 Euroscepticism at the EP Elections in 2014: A Reflection of the Different Patterns of Opposition to the EU? Birte Wassenberg13 Migration Policy Debates in the European Parliament. Does the Mainstream Right stand its Ground? Brice Cristoforetti and Lara Querton 14 Possible Future European Union Party Political Systems Martin Westlake Part IV The EP and EU Policies15 Reforming the European Parliament’s Monetary and Economic Dialogues: Creating Accountability Through a Eurozone Oversight Subcommittee Dermot Hodson and Michele Chang16 The European Parliament and the energy poverty: Such a long way to develop a distinctive voice in the Energy Union Frédérique Berrod, Louis Navé and Samuel Verschraegen17 Parliamentary Diplomacy: Democracy support at the European Parliament Beatrix Immenkamp and Naja Bentzen18 The European Parliament in Security and Defence: The Parliamentary Contribution to the European Defence Union Elena Lazarou 19 The European Parliament’s role in monitoring the implementation of EU trade policy Laura Puccio and Roderick Harte

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Book Synopsis"Mouritzen and Opstrup's book is a most welcome addition to the subject of the management of academic performance. It is certainly well-worth reading and considering."—Bruno S. Frey, Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel and Research Director CREMA - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland"Performance Management at Universities could not possibly be more timely. With universities and university faculty throughout the world being pressed to give more evidence and more precise indicators about their productivity, this thoughtful contribution provides a much needed and unusually thoughtful analysis of the possibilities and pitfalls found in current approaches to university performance evaluation. Given policy-makers’ and politicians’ calls for evidence-based management and evaluation, let us hope that policy-makers heed their own rhetoric and act on the evidence provided here. The authors show that performance measures, while sometimes beneficial, are subject to gaming and manipulation and that more precision does not necessarily equate with better performance, but rather altered performance. This superb book should be read by anyone interested higher education evaluation as well as by those who are subjected to it."—Barry Bozeman, Regents' Professor, Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, USA"In Performance Management at Universities, Mouritzen and Opstrup definitively answer the question: What are the effects of national university performance-based funding schemes that use bibliometric indicators? As these schemes have proliferated, the question has become urgent. The authors marshal comprehensive data on the Danish university system to sift through the many predictions commonly made by academics newly subject to these systems to identify what actually happened to Danish research as the system took hold."—Diana Hicks, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and first author on the Leiden Manifesto on research metricsThis book gives an account of what can happen when performance management is introduced at universities. How do scholars – for better or worse – respond to a system which counts the number of articles and books? Many myths exist about scholar’s reactions: They cheat, slice their production to the least publishable unit, become more risk averse and will go for the low-hanging fruits; in short, they develop a “taste for publication” at the cost of a “taste of science”. Systematic knowledge about the consequences of such systems for the motivation, behavior and productivity of university scholars is in short supply. The book is a major contribution to remedy this situation.Table of ContentsPART 1 Introduction1 Performance management strikes Danish universities2 Design of the study3 Trickling down to the individualPART 2 Motivational and behavioral effects 4 Incentive systems surrounding the modern scholars 5 Gaming the system6 Strategic decisions about research and publications7 For love or money?8 From a ’taste for science’ to ‘a taste for publications’?9 Under pressure?10 Effort substitution?PART 3 Output and outcomes11 How great expectations on Bredgade were dashed at Frue Plads12 Changing publications profiles?13 The international impact of Danish ResearchPART 4 Conclusions 14 Havoc or Heaven?15 Lessons from the study

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Book SynopsisPolicy advocacy is an increasingly important function of many nonprofit organizations, as they seek broad social changes in their concerning issues. Their advocacy practices, however, have often been guided by their own past experiences, anecdotes from peer networks, and consultant advice. Most of their practices have largely escaped empirical and theoretical grounding that could better root their work in established theories of policy change. The first book of its kind, Nonprofits in Policy Advocacy bridges this gap by connecting real practices of on-the-ground policy advocates with the burgeoning academic literature in policy studies. In the process, it empirically identifies six distinct policy advocacy strategies, and their accompanying tactics, used by nonprofits. Case studies tell the stories of how advocates apply these strategies in a wide variety of issues including civil rights, criminal justice, education, energy, environment, public health, public infrastructure, and youth. This book will appeal to both practitioners and academicians, as each gains insights into the other’s views of policy change and the actions that produce it.Trade Review“Sheldon Gen and Amy Conley Wright have written both a solid academic work, which includes a great deal of original research, and a valuable supplementary text for classroom use. … they also frame advocacy behavior within the theories of public policy scholarship, making Nonprofits in Policy Advocacy a useful supplementary text for graduate classes in nonprofit management or advocacy, but equally valuable for graduate or upper level undergraduate public policy classes, as well as political science classes that focus on interest groups, lobbying, and advocacy.” (Shelly Arsneault, Nonprofit Policy Forum, May 7, 2021)Table of Contents1. Nonprofit Advocacy in the United States Nonprofit advocacy in the context of American public policy Political context of policy advocacy Policy advocacy by nonprofit organizations in the U.S.: Scope and scale Discussions References 2. Tactics and Strategies A menu of tactics for policy advocacy Strategies of policy advocacy organizations Discussions References 3. Public Lobbying The public lobbying stratefgy Books not bars "Power grab" Discussions References 4. Institutional Partnership The institutional partnership strategy Over-incarceration Foster youth emancipation Discussions References 5. Inside-Outside The inside-outside strategy Banning plastic bags Evaluating teacher performance Raising the tobacco tax Discussions References 6. Direct Reform The direct reform strategy Banning trans fats Closing coal-fired power plants Discussions References 7. Indirect Pressure The indirect pressure strategy Enhancing local parks Discussions References 8. Popular Power The popular power strategy Bring Our War $$ Home Parent engagement in public schools Discussions References 9. Considerations for Strategic Policy Advocacy Creative and strategic policy advocacy The Challenges of Policy Advocacy Measuring and evaluating advocacy performance Conclusion Discussions References Appendix 1. Derivation of the composite logic model of policy advocacyReferencesAppendix 2. Methods Q-methodology Survey method References

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Book SynopsisConventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax. For centuries, governments have levied these "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco, but the list of taxable sins has now grown to include soda and marijuana, with calls to impose further taxes on plastic bags, meat, and even robots and carbon. Contrary to what experts and policymakers tell us, many of these alleged sins impose very little, if any, cost on society, and the harms that do exist can be minimized without resorting to tax. What follows in this book is a discussion of four case studies—on tobacco, marijuana, alcohol and soda—which make the case against the conventional wisdom in taxing these "sins", before concluding that when it comes to taxing sin, it is time for governments to forgive—and forget. Table of Contents1. Tax Your Sins, Experts Say2. Taxing Soda3. Taxing Alcohol4. Taxing Tobacco5. Taxing Marijuana6. Taxing Twenty-First Century Sins7. Don't Tax Sin, Forgive It

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Book SynopsisThis book presents new research results on the challenges of local politics in different European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Switzerland, together with theoretical considerations on the further development and strengthening of local self-government. It focuses on analyses of the most recent developments in local democracy and administration.Table of Contents1. The essence and transformation of local self-government in Western Europe. Part I. The essence of local self-government2. The future of local democracy: A somewhat dystopian view. 3. Beyond Charter and Index: Reassessing local autonomy. 4. Redefining local self-government: Finnish municipalities seeking their essence. 5. Local autonomy in the Nordic countries: Between a rock and a hard place. 6. Local self-government and the choice for local governance arrangements in nine Swiss municipal tasks7. Chasing the creative class: What works, and what doesn't? Recruitment strategies in Norwegian local government. Part II. Challenges and transformations: Digitalisation, marketisation, amalgamation. 8. The digitalisation of local public services: evidence from the German case. 9. Challenges of digital service provision for local governments from the citizens' view: comparing citizens' expectations and their experience of digital service provision10. The resistance threshold to the amalgamation of jurisdictions: MPs' attitudes about budget control and social identification in the Swiss cantons. 11. Country size and county council mandate: decreasing motivation due to longer distances?12. Where is municipal marketisation heading? Experiences from England and ScandinaviaPart III. Changing intergovernmental relations: supervisions and subnational policy-making13. Decentralisation and reconfiguration of multilevel research policy: the case of Sweden14. The impact of local autonomy on land-use planning. A qualitative comparative analysis of two Swiss municipalities. 15. City-regional governance in Flanders: the potential of mobility as a critical juncture. 16. Strategic policy planning at the local level: A Flemish performance starring regional government. 17. State supervisions of local budgets: from forbearance to no concession. 18. New ways of limiting local government debt: an empirical assessment of the German case. 19. Reforms of school supervision in the German Länder: converging school supervisions structures? Part IV. Future outlook and scenarios20. Future outlook and scenarios

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses digital risk governance in a global context and provides practical solutions for sound digital policy. From cyber-attacks to the mechanisms of digital technical management on a global scale, this book identifies the fundamental areas of digital vulnerability for both states and businesses and outlines the means of securing them. Written with the digital security needs of the public and private sectors in mind, chapters provide approachable guidance on navigating national digital strategies for public and corporate cyber-risks, identifying mechanisms for embedding digital security over time, protecting both personal and strategic economic data, adapting regulations to digital challenges, and leveraging innovation and multilateralism for digital security. Providing a comprehensive view of digital risk mechanisms for multiple stakeholders, this volume will be useful for professionals and practitioners in technology governance, digital management, IS/risk management, digital security, and internet policy.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The international context of corporate digital security.- Chapter 2: National frameworks for the implementation of digital security.- Chapter 3: The complexity of digital technology makes it difficult for enterprises to conceive of its security.- Chapter 4: Intense inter-state competition in cyberspace.- Chapter 5: Establishing competition in digital markets.- Chapter 6: Preserve the legal order by strengthening data control and the ability to regulate platforms.- Chapter 7: Responding to the fiscal challenge launched by the major digital enterprises: a digital security and equity issue.- Chapter 8: Strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise's information system.- Chapter 9: Securing the information system of enterprises and institutions.- Chapter 10: Digital vulnerabilities and attacks compromising the security of enterprises and institutions.- Chapter 11: The nature of the attacks and the characteristics of a cyber-attitude.- Chapter 12: IT safety education for Digital Literacy.- Chapter 13: How to win the digital security challenge in terms of governance.- Chapter 14: Governance through the development of key technologies and the loss of strategic assets.- Chapter 15: Optimize the levers of industrial policy to mobilize financial and human capital: Chapter 16: Conclusion.- Glossary.- References.

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Book SynopsisEncouraging more – and different – people to attend the arts remains a vital issue for the cultural sector. The question of who consumes culture, and why, is key to our understanding of the arts. This book examines the relationship of audience development to cultural policy and offers a ground-breaking perspective on how the practice of audience development is connected to ideas of democratic access to culture. Providing a detailed overview of arts marketing, audience development and cultural democracy, the book argues that the work of audience development has been profoundly misunderstood by the field of arts management. Drawing from a rich range of interviews with key individuals in the audience development field, the book argues for a re-conceptualisation of audience development as an ideological function of cultural policy. Of importance for students, academics and researchers working in arts management and cultural policy, the book is also vital reading for anyone working in the arts, cultural and heritage sectors with an interest in understanding how our relationship with the audience has been constructed. Table of Contents​1 Introduction 2 Democratic Cultural Policy 3 Audience Development 4 The Development of Practice: Two Dilemmas 5 The Traditions of Audience Development 6 Characteristics of Audience Development 7 Audience Development and Democracy: Third Dilemma 8 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it overcomes the Eurocentric bias that has marked debate on cosmopolitanism from its inception. The contributions highlight the crucial role of migrants as actors of urban change and targets of urban policies, thus reconciling empirical and normative approaches to cosmopolitanism. By addressing issues such as cosmopolitanism and urban geographies of power, locations and temporalities of subaltern cosmopolites, political meanings and effects of cosmopolitan practices and discourses in urban contexts, it revisits contemporary debates on superdiversity, urban stratification and local incorporation, and assess the role of migration and mobility in globalization and social change.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: An Introduction.- Part I: Making Cosmopolitan Places in a Globalized World.- Chapter 2. Generic Places: The Construction of Home and the Lived Experience of Cosmopolitanization.- Chapter 3. Making Cosmopolitan Spaces: Urban Design, Ideology and Power.- Chapter 4. Dakar by Night: Engaging with Cosmopolitanism by Contrast.- Chapter 5. Urban Cosmopolitanism in the Arab World: Contributing to Theoretical Debates from the Middle East.- Part II: Urbanity and Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Ordinary Places.- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitan Dubai: Consumption and Segregation in a Global City.- Chapter 7. Everyday Cosmopolitanism in African Cities: Places of Leisure and Consumption in Antananarivo and Maputo.- Chapter 8. What’s in a Street? Exploring Suspended Cosmopolitanism in Trikoupi, Nicosia.- Chapter 9. Branding Cosmopolitanism and Place Making in Saint Laurent Boulevard, Montreal.- Part III: Migrant Cosmopolitanism: Fragile Belongings and Contested Citizenships.- Chapter 10. Sweeping the Streets, Cleaning Morals in Paris: Chinese Sex Workers Claiming Their Belonging to the Cosmopolitan City.- Chapter 11. Cosmopolitanism in US Sanctuary Cities: Dreamers Claiming Urban Citizenship.- Chapter 12. Migrant Cosmopolitanism in Emirati and Saudi Cities: Practices and Belonging in Exclusionary Contexts.- Chapter 13. Figures of the Cosmopolitan Condition: The Wanderer, the Outcast, and the Foreigner.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft meaningfulness in life and work. Meaningfulness and public value require new ways of leading and developing city governance. This extends to designing inclusive structures and processes for people to grapple with the meanings and values underpinning public value creation. A public value framework demands that city governance goes beyond ordinary government to considerations of how to involve city residents and workers in creating and maintaining the common good. The common good is determined by an inclusive associational life characterized by deliberative processes and opportunities for social contribution. When acting upon their entitlements to make the city, urban residents and workers – as members of diverse civic, public and private organizations – co-create the meanings that facilitate the collective action necessary to translate values into value. The experience of cooperating for the common good produces meanings that people can adopt into a sense that their lives have significance and purpose. This is particularly relevant to understanding how to motivate just and inclusive sustainability transitions, especially as cities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on cities and urban policy, the main theme of this book is to elaborate on public values for cities and city policies, and to further develop the concept of the meaningful city. This book aims to provide new kinds of tools for city development that can help them co-create resilience against future shocks. Table of Contents1) Introduction Part II The Concept of Public Values and Cities 2) Public Values approach 3) Public Values, cities and services 4) Ethics, Values and Public Value Part III Public Values and the Development of Cities 5) Urbanization and Public Values 6) Knowledge-Based Community and Public Values 7) Economic development policy and Public Values 8) Digitalisation and Public Values Part IV Governance And leadership 9) City Governance 10) City Leadership Part V Case study and conclusions 11) Citizen capabilities for making meaningful cities 12) Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Part I: General Principles Chapter 2: Article 2 - The right to non-discriminationChapter 3: Article 3 - The best interest of the childChapter 4: Article 6 - The rights to life, survival, and developmentChapter 5: Article 12 - The right to be heardPart 2: Civil and Political RightsChapter 6: Article 7 - The right to a name, nationality, and to know and be cared for by parentsChapter 7: Article 8 - The right to preservation of identityChapter 8: Article 13 - The right to freedom of expressionChapter 9: Article 14 - The right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religionChapter 10: Article 15 - The right to freedom of association and assemblyChapter 11: Article 16 - The right to protection of privacyChapter 12: Article 17 - The right to access to diverse sources of informationPart 3: Family Environment and Alternative Care RightsChapter 13: Article 5 - The right to parental guidance consistent with the evolving capacity of the childChapter 14: Article 9 - The right not to be separated from parentsChapter 15: Article 10 - The right to family reunificationChapter 16: Article 11 - The right to protection from illicit transfer and non-return of children abroadChapter 17: Article 18 - Rights concerning parental responsibilityChapter 18: Article 20 - Rights concerning children deprived of their family environmentChapter 19: Article 21 - AdoptionChapter 20: Article 25 - The right to periodic review of treatment and all other circumstances of placementPart 4: Disability, Health, and Welfare RightsChapter 21: Article 23 - The rights of children with disabilitiesChapter 22: Article 24 - The right to healthChapter 23: Article 26 - The right to benefit from social securityChapter 24: Article 27 - The right to a standard of living adequate for physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social developmentChapter 25: Article 33 - The right to protection from illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substancesPart 5: Education, Leisure, and Cultural Activities RightsChapter 26: Article 28 - The right to educationChapter 27: Article 29 - The aims of educationChapter 28: Article 30 - Cultural, religious, and linguistic rights of minority or indigenous childrenChapter 29: Article 31 - The rights to rest, play, recreation, and cultural and artistic activitiesPart 6: Protection Measures from ViolenceChapter 30: Article 19 - The right to protection from all forms of violenceChapter 31: Article 37 - Prohibition of torture, capital punishment, and arbitrary deprivation of libertyChapter 32: Article 39 - The right to physical and psychological recovery of child victimsPart 7: Protection Measures from ExploitationChapter 33: Article 32 - The right to protection from economic exploitation and hazardous activitiesChapter 34: Article 34 - The right to protection from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuseChapter 35: Article 36 - The right to protection from other forms of exploitationPart 8: Protection Measures for Children in Vulnerable SituationsChapter 36: Article 22 - The right to protection for refugee and asylum-seeking childrenChapter 37: Article 35 - Prevention of abduction, sale, and traffickingChapter 38: Article 38 - The right to protection from armed conflictChapter 39: Article 40 - The rights in the juvenile justice settingPart 9: General Measures of ImplementationChapter 40: Article 1 - Definition of a child Chapter 41: Article 4 - States Parties’ obligationsChapter 42: Articles 42 and 44(6) - Making the Convention and States Parties’ compliance widely known

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the rise, spread and decline of participatory budgeting in Brazil. In the last decade of the twentieth century Brazil became a model of participatory democracy for activists, practitioners, and scholars. However, some thirty years later participatory budgeting is in steep decline, and on the verge of disappearing from Brazil. Drawing from institutional, political choice, civil society, and public administration literature, this book generates theory that accounts for the rise and fall of an innovative democratic institution. It examines what the arc of the creation, spread, and decline of participatory budgeting tells us about the long-term viability and potential democratic impact of this innovative democratic institution as it spreads globally. Will the same inverted trajectory plague other countries in the future, or will they be able to sustain participatory budgeting for greater periods of time?Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Analytical Framework: Internal, Horizontal, VerticalChapter 3: Creation: Workers’ Party Governments and Civil Society AlliesChapter 4: The Spread of PB: The Workers’ Party and BeyondChapter 5: Outcomes: When and Where Did PB Live Up to the Hype?Chapter 6: The Slow Decline of PB from 2005 to 2020Chapter 7: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to become a LIScity. The research has been pursued with industry partners and NGOs from 2017 to 2020. A LIScity is increasingly digitally networked, uses resources efficiently, and implements intelligent mobility concepts. It guarantees the supply of its grid-bound infrastructure with a high proportion of renewable energy. Intelligent cities are increasingly human-centered, integrative, and flexible, thus placing the well-being of the citizens at the center of developments to increase the quality of life. The articles in this book cover research aimed to meet these criteria. The book covers research in the fields of energy (i.e. algorithms for heating and energy storage systems, simulation programs for thermal local heating supply, runtime optimization of combined heat and power (CHP), natural ventilation), mobility (i.e. charging distribution and deep learning, innovative emission-friendly mobility, routing apps, zero-emission urban logistics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence for individual route planning, mobility behavior), information platforms (i.e. 3DCity models in city planning: sunny places visualization, augmented reality for windy cities, internet of things (IoT) monitoring to visualize device performance, storing and visualizing dynamic energy data of smart cities), and buildings and city planning (i.e. sound insulation of sustainable facades and balconies, multi-camera mobile systems for inspection of tunnels, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) as active façade elements, common space, the building envelopes potential in smart sustainable cities).Table of ContentsEditorial24 articles from researchers at the HFT in the fields of energy, mobility, information platforms, and buildings and city planning.Appendix (i.a. including literature, abbreviations, source references etc.)

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Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada, Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and political science.Table of ContentsTables and figuresContributors1. Introduction (Wilson McLeod, Robert Dunbar, Kathryn Jones and John Walsh)Part I: Theorising language policy and regulation2. Language policy as a form of public policy(Huw Lewis and Elin Royles)3. Language rights, human rights and the right to chat- Emyr Lewis4. Language and space: a new research agenda for urban geolinguistics- Bernadette O’Rourke 5. Reflections on language as a vehicle of economic value- François Grin Part II: Language policy challenges in Wales 6. Language planning in Wales: Joining the dots- Meirion Prys Jones 7. Recent legal developments in Wales: moving beyond individual to group rights?- Robert Dunbar 8. Networked territories of language and nation- Rhys Jones 9. Placemaking: towards rethinking land-use planning and language planning for a thriving Welsh language- Kathryn Jones 10. Signs of the times: Onomastics and language policy in Wales- Eleri Hedd James11. Canolfannau Cymraeg – a top-down or bottom-up approach to language planning?- Steve MorriPart III: Language policy challenges in Canada 12. Best practices and language policy designs: lessons from Canada and Wales- Linda Cardinal and Anastasia Llewellyn13. F.R. Scott and the origins of language policy in Canada- Graham Fraser14. The uncertain future of French in Canada- Charles Castonguay 15. The planned decline of the English school system in Quebec- Richard Y. Bourhis Part IV: Language policy challenges in Ireland, Scotland and Catalonia 16. Changing spaces: the new geographies of the Gaeltacht and Irish language networks- John Walsh 17. Lessons learned, lessons ignored: The continuing road to an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland- Janet Muller 18. The influence of Wales on policies for Gaelic in Scotland- Wilson McLeod 19. ‘Volunteering for the language in Catalonia’ (VxLl): more than a space for linguistic- mudes Maite Puigdevall 20. Afterword- Colin Williams

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Building Effective Governance Inclusive Societies and Strong Institutions.- Civil Service Integrity for SDGs in Bangladesh.- Strengthening the Bangladesh Civil Service for SDG Implementation.- Uncharted Territories: Exploring EMutation for Sustainable Governance in Land Administration.- Factors Affecting Successful Implementation of Education Related Sustainable Development Goal Evidence from Sri Lanka.- Public Finance for Inclusive Governance and SDG Implementation.- Safe Drinking Water and Wastewater Disposal in Pakistan.- Institutional Reforms to Counter Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.- Public Administration in South Asia.

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Book SynopsisGovernance Reforms Across Time and Space An Introduction to the Book.- Part I Comparative Governance Reforms Theories and Models.- Theoretical Approaches to Administrative Reform.- Governance Reforms the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the Sound Examining the Past and Exploring the Future of Public Organizations.- Part II  Governance Reform in Europe West and East.- Governance Reforms in Scandinavia Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.- Governance Reforms in Germany An Analysis of Digital Reforms.- Challenges, Lessons and Perspectives of the Administrative Reform in Russia.- From Union to Another Union The development path of the Hungarian public administration from the regime change to the new era of crises.- GOVERNANCE REFORMS IN VISEGRAD COUNTRIES.- Part III Governance Reforms in Asia, Middle East.- Chinese Development Reforms  a History of Pragmatic Policy Learning.- Governance in China A Progressive Development.- Governance Reform Institutional Change in Japan.-  Administrative Reform in Bangladesh Civil Service in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.- Governance and Administrative Reforms in Contemporary Iran Challenges and Opportunities.- Part IV Governance Reforms in North, Central, and South America.- Governance Reforms in Colombia.- V Conclusion.- Conclusion Can We Go Home Roads Taken, Targets Met, and Lessons Learned on Governance and Organizational Eclecticism in the Public Arena.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Asylum governance and the UN Global Compact on Refugees (Sergio Carrera, Nikolas Feith Tan, Eleni Karageorgiou and Gamze Ovacik).- Part 1. Actors, Instruments and Standards.- 2. Actors and their Networks: Scope for Adaptation to and Contestation of Global Norms for Refugee Protection (Andrew Geddes, Leiza Brumat and Andrea Pettrachin).- 3. Inventory and Typology of EU Arrangements with Third Countries (Nikolas Feith Tan).- 4. Refugee and Human Rights Law Standards Applicable to Asylum Governance and the Right of Asylum (Nikolas Feith Tan, Julia Kienast and Jens Vedsted-Hansen).- Part 2. Refugee Recognition, Self-reliance and Labour Rights.- 5. Status, Vulnerability and Rights: Bangladesh and Jordan (Sanjeeb Hossain and Lewis Turner).- 6. Status, Vulnerability and Rights: Brazil (Natalia Araujo).- 7. Status, Vulnerability and Rights: Canada (Roberto Cortinovis and Andrew Fallone).- 8. Status, Vulnerability and Rights: South Africa (Fatima Khan).- 9. Status, Vulnerability and Rights: Turkey (Ilke Sanlier).- Part 3. Third Country Arrangements.- 10. Asylum for Containment (Thomas Spijkerboer).- 11. Niger (Bachirou Ayouba Tinni and Abdoulaye Hamadou).- 12. Serbia (Olga Djurovic and Rados Djurovic).- 13. Tunisia (Fatma Raach and Hiba Sha'ath).- 14. Turkey (Gamze Ovacik, Meltem Ineli-Ciger, Orçun Ulusoy and Thomas Spijkerboer).- 15.EU asylum governance actors - Serbia and Tunisia (Julian Lehmann and Angeliki Dimitriadi).- Part 4. Responsibility Allocation and Attribution.- 16. Responsibility Attribution and Fundamental Rights Compatibility (Nikolas Feith Tan, Julia Kienast and Jens Vedsted-Hansen).- 17. Legal Responsibility Attribution based on EU-Third Country Arrangements (Gregor Noll, Eleni Karageorgiou and Gamze Ovacik).

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Public Services and Marxism.- Chapter 2. Public Value: How to Make It and Measure It?.- Chapter 3. Public Services, Dialectics, and Nature.- Chapter 4. Social Change, Public Services and Dialectics.- Chapter 5. Transitions and Public Services.- Chapter 6. The State and Public Services: The Welfare State.- Chapter 7. Public Services and the Neoliberal State.- Chapter 8. The Family, Households and Public Services.- Chapter 9. Marx, the Third Sector and Public Services.- Chapter 10. Public-private Partnerships and Value-flows.- Chapter 11. Marx and Services for the Elderly.- Chapter 12. Marx, Public Services and Young People.- Chapter 13. Marx and Health Care Public Services.- Chapter 14. Marx and Public Services for Cities.- Chapter 15. Racism, Marx and Public Services.- Chapter 16. Gender, Marx and Public Services.- Chapter 17. Marx, Technology and Public Services.- Chapter 18. Transitioning to Socialism and Public Services.- Chapter 19. Public Services, Planning, and the New Person.- Chapter 20. Marxism and Public Services.

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Book SynopsisPreface.- Technologies of Crimmigration.- A theory of punitive biases in Risk Assessment Algorithms.- From Humane to Criminal Detention Changes in RCA Scoring Rules.- Punitive Bias and Algorithm Updating Measuring Puni-tive biases through officers dissents.- Optimized at Last Making RCA Criminals out of Undocumented Immigrants.- Concluding Remarks The Crimmigration Calculus.

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Book SynopsisPART I: INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1: The boundaries of citizen centricity and the need for a novel approach to public policy making.- Chapter 2: Citizen centric notches in approaches of public policy analysis Towards a hybrid pathway.- PART II: MAIN BODY.- Chapter 3: Civic engagement frameworks for public policy making.- Chapter 4: Direct citizen participation in the public policy making process.- Chapter 5: Active citizenship in driving citizen-centered public policy making.- Chapter 6: Information and communication technologies for citizen centricity in public policies Is this all we need.- Chapter 7: An e participation model proposal for incorporation of citizen feedback into government business.- PART III: CONCLUSION.- Chapter 8: Bridging the citizen centricity theory and practice Various cases through top down and bottom up approaches.- Chapter 9: Embracing citizen centricity in public policy making A descriptive novel approach endeavor.

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Book Synopsis.- Digital Governance and Technological Revolution: An Introduction..- Part I Digital Transformation, Platforms, and Global Practices..- Government as a Platform: Concepts, Challenges, and Pathways for Future Research..- Digital Platform Government Initiatives in Korea: Reinforces for the Better Smart Governance..- Platform Regulation and Personal Data in the Age of Monetization: A Failure of Initiative?..- Transforming Citizen-Administration Dynamics in the Digital Platform Age..- Reimagining Citizen Engagement in the Digital Age: Platforms, Participation, and Public Trust..- Chinese Grid Management as a Digital Platform: Salus Populi est Suprema Lex for what Costs?..- System Co-Design with Stakeholders for AI-Enabled Government Platforms..- Institutionalizing Collaborative Governance to Manage Digital Platforms and Digital Public Infrastructure: A Case of India’s National Payment Corporation of India..- When the Korean developmental state meets data economy..- Digital Governance Reforms in Hungary: From Developing Hardware to a Common Digital Platform..- Digital Transformation in the Iranian Public Sector:  Exploring Strategies for Moving Forward and Climbing Upward..- Kazakhstan’s Digital Governance Evolution: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Prospects..- Morocco’s Digital Transformation Journey: E-Government, Digital Government, and Digital Economy..- Part II AI Transformation and Global Practices..- AI as the Centerpiece of Digital Convergence – Applications, Governance, and the Future..- AI Governance Strategies for the Public Sector..- AGI, Governments, and Free Societies..- Implications of adopting AI-based applications in local governments: A systematic literature review from a public value perspective..- AI and the Digital Divide: Understanding Digital Vulnerability in AI Access and Use..- AI Adoption in the Creative Sector: Practices, Perceptions, and Prospects among Arts and Cultural Organizations and Administrators..- The AI Economy and Public Policy: Updating Porat’s Information Economy Framework in the Era of Artificial Intelligence..- Hesitations and the gradual adoption of artificial intelligence by French public administrations..- AI-Powered 311 Service Programs: Unpacking Learning Dynamics, Opportunities, and Challenges in Service Delivery.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Setting the Stage.- Chapter 2: Non-Refoulement Protection under International and European Refugee Law.- Chapter 3: The Common European Asylum System and Non-Refoulement.- Chapter 4: Containment in Europe.- Chapter 5: The United Kingdom and Non-Refoulement.- Chapter 6: Germany and Non-Refoulement.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Protecting Non-Refoulement.- Chapter 8: Bibliography.

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