Regional, state and other local government Books
Watkins Media Limited Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss
Book SynopsisThe impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic history. At the centre of this has been the local government, Newham Council, and their daring proposal: an "Arc of Opportunity" for developers to transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. This proposal was outlined in a short film, London's Regeneration Supernova, and shown to foreign developers and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. While the sweeping changes to East London have been keenly felt by locals, the symbolism and practicalities of these changes - for the local area, and the world alike - are overdue serious investigation. Regeneration Songs is about how places are turned into simple stories for packaged investment opportunities, how people living in those places relate to those stories, and how music and art can render those stories in many different ways. The book will also include a download code to obtain the related musical project, Music for Masterplanning - in which musicians from East London soundtracked London's Regeneration Supernova - and a 32-page glossy insert detailing the artists involved.
£16.14
Rutgers University Press Wrecked: Deinstitutionalization and Partial
Book SynopsisHigher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of U.S. higher education. The political Right became increasingly reliant on angry white voters as higher education became more racially diverse. The Republican party became more closely connected to extremely wealthy donors as higher education became more costly. In Wrecked, Barrett J. Taylor shows how these social changes set a collision course for the Right and higher education. These attacks fed a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, which encompassed stark divestment from higher education but was primarily characterized by an attack on the institution’s social foundation of public trust. In response to these attacks, higher education officials have offered a series of partial defenses that helped higher education to cope in the short-term but did nothing to defend the institution itself against the long-term threat of declining public trust. The failure to address underlying issues of mistrust allowed conflict to escalate to the point at which many states are now wrecking their public higher education systems. Wrecked offers a unique and compelling perspective linking higher education policymaking to broader social and political forces acting in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Taylor's Wrecked is a bold, unapologetic, and thought-provoking analysis and manifesto that addresses how the long-ignored elephants of race and partisan politics continue to shape higher education policy. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding and improving higher education equity in policymaking." -- Sosanya Jones * co-author of Performance Funding for Higher Education *"Wrecked offers a compelling and instructive indictment about the rise of political and policy hostility of states toward higher education. Armed with a decade of data reflecting the political Right’s retreat from supporting public higher education, Barrett Taylor explains clearly and honestly its devastating effects. Implications for the future of college access and equity are sobering, yet hopeful in how we understand the complexities of social divisions and their political consequences. Wrecked demands our attention in addressing the collateral policy damage and the diminishing possibilities of higher education." -- James Earl Davis * Bernard C. Watson Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Higher Education - Temple University *"Taylor's Wrecked is a bold, unapologetic, and thought-provoking analysis and manifesto that addresses how the long-ignored elephants of race and partisan politics continue to shape higher education policy. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding and improving higher education equity in policymaking." -- Sosanya Jones * co-author of Performance Funding for Higher Education *"Wrecked offers a compelling and instructive indictment about the rise of political and policy hostility of states toward higher education. Armed with a decade of data reflecting the political Right’s retreat from supporting public higher education, Barrett Taylor explains clearly and honestly its devastating effects. Implications for the future of college access and equity are sobering, yet hopeful in how we understand the complexities of social divisions and their political consequences. Wrecked demands our attention in addressing the collateral policy damage and the diminishing possibilities of higher education." -- James Earl Davis * Bernard C. Watson Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Higher Education - Temple University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Collision Course Chapter 2: Policy Legacies Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Wreckage Chapter 4: Arizona Chapter 5: Wisconsin Chapter 6: North Carolina Chapter 7: Iowa (with Kimberly Watts) Chapter 8: Ways Forward Appendix: Notes on Methods
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A History of the Personal Social Services in
Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the 50-year development of the personal social services in England, located throughout the changing ideological, political and relevant professional contexts of the period. Drawing on the experience and recollections of key players who were active during major moments, it constitutes a significant addition to the social work and social policy literature, synthesising important and often original evidence, and some provocative interpretations. The book speaks to crucial on-going issues and contentious current debates, such as the place of bureaucratic management structures in ‘practices with people' generally, and social work specifically. It will be of interest to student and qualified social workers, social policy students and researchers, and policy makers, as well as those with a general interest in the history and trajectory of current issues facing social work and social care in England.Table of Contents1 Introduction: History and Hints.- Part I Creating the Personal Social Services.- 2 Seizing the Moment: The Seebohm Committee.- 3 Scripting the Future: The Seebohm Report.- 4 Preparing the Platform: The Local Authority Social Services Bill and Act.- Part II The Personal Social Services in Action.- 5 Creating the Empires: Promise and Potential (1970–1976).- 6 The Seismic Shifts of the Mid-1970s.- 7 Norming and Storming: Social Work Debates and Developments in the 1970s.- 8 Thatcher and Threat (1979–1989).- Part III New Laws and New Horizons.- 9 A Drama in Two Parts: Part I—The 1989 Children Act and Children’s Social Services.- 10 A Drama in Two Parts: Part II—The 1990 NHS and Community Care Act and Adult Social Services and Social Work.- Part IV The Recent Reforms and Unravelling.- 11 New Labour: New Agendas (1997–2010).- 12 Coalition and Conservatives: Austerity and Hostility (2010–2020).- Part V Reflecting and Re-routing.- 13 The Personal Social Services Today and Tomorrow.
£24.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Marketplace Trade and West African Urban
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more than 95 percent. Exporting unprocessed strategic raw materials and importing large volumes of finished goods stagnate Africa’s informal sector while creating formal jobs overseas. This suggests employment increases in distributive trade and persistence of the marketplace institution in reducing urban unemployment and income inequality. However, there is limited knowledge of the men and women with permanent stalls in large urban marketplaces that function daily as a temporary city within a city, even though they are the major actors in distribute trade. More important their daily out-of-stall contacts resulting from maintaining complex social and economic relationships that determine the financial health of family, business, and the economy are generally unexplored and largely unknown, but have significant unintended consequences on the urban mobility system. Researchers, planners, development practitioners and policymakers have, therefore, not focused their attention and considered the impacts of the powerful economic institution – marketplaces and traders - in framing transport planning processes and urban development policies, and that is the paradox surrounding marketplace trade and urban development in West Africa. Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Marketplace Entrepreneurs and Urban Mobility infrastructureChapter 3: Onitsha: The Largest market in Nigeria - One of the largest in West AfricaChapter 4: Challenges Facing Urban Marketplace TradersChapter 5: Attributes Impacting Out-of-Stall ContactsChapter 6: A Geography of Contacts in a Large Urban MarketplaceChapter 7: Sustainability of Marketplace Institution and TradersChapter 8: Planning and Policy Support for Marketplace Trade
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Introduction to Crowd Management: Managing Crowds
Book SynopsisThis book will guide you in a simple and illustrative way through all aspects related to crowd behaviour, including sociological theories, methods of crowd control, people detection and tracking, and crowd simulation and prediction, while examining previous accidents to learn from the past. Crowds are a constant presence in most cities around the globe and mass gatherings are attracting an increasing number of people. While experience can help manage large crowds and plan mass events, knowledge on crowd behaviour is fundamental for successfully dealing with unexpected situations, improving current practices and implementing state-of-the-art technologies in management strategies. After letting people laugh about the controversy on colliding pedestrians, with this book, two of the Ig Nobel laureates on pedestrian traffic will make you think (and learn) presenting through a collaborative approach, combining theoretical with practical advice, the science behind crowd dynamics and the importance it plays in our increasingly urbanized society. Fundamental aspects related to crowd management are presented using simple concepts requiring little or no knowledge of mathematics or engineering. Professionals involved in pedestrian traffic, as well as students and researchers entering the field of crowd dynamics, will find this book a useful interdisciplinary introduction on the subject, exploring both fundamental background information and more specific topics related to crowd management.Table of Contents1. Crowd Management and its Definition.- 2. Crowd Properties and Characteristics.- 3. Crowd Incidents and their Analysis.- 4. Risk Assessment.- 5. Pedestrian and Crowd Sensing.- 6. Crowd Simulators: Computational Methods, Product Selection, and Visualization.- 7. Crowd Control Methods: Established and Future Practices.- 8. Planning.- 9. Conclusion: Seven Knows.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Introduction to Crowd Management: Managing Crowds
Book SynopsisThis book will guide you in a simple and illustrative way through all aspects related to crowd behaviour, including sociological theories, methods of crowd control, people detection and tracking, and crowd simulation and prediction, while examining previous accidents to learn from the past. Crowds are a constant presence in most cities around the globe and mass gatherings are attracting an increasing number of people. While experience can help manage large crowds and plan mass events, knowledge on crowd behaviour is fundamental for successfully dealing with unexpected situations, improving current practices and implementing state-of-the-art technologies in management strategies. After letting people laugh about the controversy on colliding pedestrians, with this book, two of the Ig Nobel laureates on pedestrian traffic will make you think (and learn) presenting through a collaborative approach, combining theoretical with practical advice, the science behind crowd dynamics and the importance it plays in our increasingly urbanized society. Fundamental aspects related to crowd management are presented using simple concepts requiring little or no knowledge of mathematics or engineering. Professionals involved in pedestrian traffic, as well as students and researchers entering the field of crowd dynamics, will find this book a useful interdisciplinary introduction on the subject, exploring both fundamental background information and more specific topics related to crowd management.Table of Contents1. Crowd Management and its Definition.- 2. Crowd Properties and Characteristics.- 3. Crowd Incidents and their Analysis.- 4. Risk Assessment.- 5. Pedestrian and Crowd Sensing.- 6. Crowd Simulators: Computational Methods, Product Selection, and Visualization.- 7. Crowd Control Methods: Established and Future Practices.- 8. Planning.- 9. Conclusion: Seven Knows.
£71.24
Springer International Publishing AG The Palgrave Handbook of Disability Sport in
Book SynopsisThis handbook explores the various ways in which disability sport is governed and organised across Europe, as well as examining the extent to which persons with a disability participate in sport at the grassroots level. Based upon a solid theoretical framework and up-to-date data, the 19 country-specific chapters in this handbook give a comparative overview of the structuring, steering and supporting elements of disability sport policy and sport participation levels amongst persons with a disability, as well as the extent to which countries adopt policies to promote inclusion in sport in this population. A multitude of authors also identify the various methods and challenges in collecting sport participation data with regard to persons with a disability. This handbook will be a valuable resource for academic study across a range of sport and disability related programs, as well as a point of reference for researchers and policymakers working in this area.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Sport participation a human right for persons with a disabilityCaroline van Lindert, Jeroen Scheerder, and Ian Brittain 2. Understanding disability, disability sport and inclusion Ian Brittain, Caroline van Lindert, and Jeroen Scheerder 3. Participation in sport and physical activity amongst people with a disability. A pan-European comparative approach Jeroen Scheerder, Kobe Helsen, Caroline van Lindert, and Ian Brittain 4. Denmark: Disability sports policy at arm’s length Christian Røj Voldby and Karsten Elmose-Østerlund 5. Finland. Facts behind the long and complicated process of disability inclusion in sports Kati Lehtonen and Aija Saari 6. Disability and sport in Iceland Ingi Þór Einarsson and Vidar Halldorsson 7. Norway Marit Sørensen and Nina Kahrs 8. Beyond inclusion - opportunity structures in sports for all in Sweden Kim Wickman and Linda Torége 9. Ireland Catherine Carty and Paul Kitchin 10. Northern Ireland: Disability Sport in a Shared Space Paul Kitchin and Catherine Carty 11. United Kingdom: An inclusionary approach to sport Matej Christiaens, Ian Brittain, and Christopher Brown 12. Austria: Half Way to Inclusion? Torsten Wojciechowski and Claudia Stura 13. Disability sport in Belgium/Flanders. From a fragmented mosaic towards a more inclusive landscape Debbie Van Biesen and Jeroen Scheerder 14. Complexity and Coexistence: Disability Sport in Germany Jürgen Mittag 15. The Netherlands, towards inclusive sport for people with a disability Caroline van Lindert and Maxine de Jonge 16. Switzerland Julia Albrecht, Siegfried Nagel, and Christoffer Klenk 17. Hungary: Rise of attention given to disability sports Szilvia Perényi and Zsuzsanna Szilárd 18. Disability Sport in Lithuania Jurate Pozeriene and Diana Reklaitiene 19. Structure of the analysis on the development and situation of disability sport in Slovenia Mojca Doupona and Simona Kustec 20. Portugal: pathways of sport for people with disabilities Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Anabela Vitorino and Nuno M. Pimenta 21. Disability sport in Spain Javier Pérez-Tejero and Cati Lecumberri 22. Turkey (Republic of Turkey): Disability Sports, Policies and Implementations Yeşim Albayrak Kuruoğlu 23. The landscape of sport for persons with a disability: a system within a system Caroline van Lindert, Jeroen Scheerder, and Ian Brittain
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Springer International Publishing AG Cycling Through the Pandemic: Tactical Urbanism
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South America. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through policies analysis, mapping, and innovative qualitative analysis bridging video and interviews, how those new infrastructures and policies can be a trigger for change in a context of mobility transition.This book provides an important element on the way local authorities can act in a quicker and more agile way. While some decisions are specific to the context of the beginning of the pandemic, the analysis offers lessons on the way to implement the transition toward a low-carbon mobility, on the importance of processes based on trials and errors, on the political stakes of reallocating road space.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Has cycling got a boost from the pandemic?- ‘School Streets’ and the adaptation London’s state-led tactical urbanism during COVID-19.- Public action in times of crisis: Trajectories of cycling policies in four French cities.- Press discourse on cycling before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown in France. The rise of the user-group voice.- Tactical urbanism to develop cycling infrastructures: The implementation of COVID cycle lanes in Switzerland.- Temporary urbanism in pandemic times—Disruption and continuity of public action in Montreal.- Pop-up bike lanes and temporary shared spaces in Vienna during the COVID-19 pandemic.- The spatial dimension of “pop-up cycle paths” in metropolitan areas: A comparative study of France and Colombia.- Cycling in Bogotá during a pandemic. The influence of tactical urbanism and perceived in-security on bicycle usage.- Changing cycling practices and Covid cycle lanes in five French cities.
£42.74
Springer Nature Switzerland Aging Aging Populations and Welfare
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de Gruyter de Gruyter Handbook of Citizens Assemblies
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gemeinwohlorientiert, ökologisch, sozial:
Book SynopsisDer Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen. Damit zukunftsfähige und klimaverträgliche Gesellschaften entstehen können, sind tiefgreifende Änderungen von Produktionsprozessen, aber auch von Konsummustern und Lebensstilen notwendig. In diesem Sammelband werden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Ausweitung alternativer Wirtschafts- und Lebensformen erkundet. Dabei werden kleine Unternehmen und nachhaltige Bildungsinitiativen genauso betrachtet wie Regionen, Berufszweige und Großunternehmen auf ihrem Weg in eine nachhaltige Zukunft.Table of ContentsForschungen zur Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie.- Forschungen zu solidarischen Wirtschaftspraktiken in der Zivilgesellschaft.- Forschungen zur lokalen Entstehung nachhaltiger Entwicklung.- Forschungen zu Bildungsprojekten für eine sozialökologische Transformation.
£52.24
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Zukunft smarte Kommune: Modellentwurf, Vorgehen
Book SynopsisDas Konzept der Smart City wird in wissenschaftlicher, politischer, medialer und projektpraktischer Hinsicht bislang überwiegend in großen Städten bearbeitet. Demgegenüber empfinden kleine, ländlich geprägte Gemeinden den Smart-City-Diskurs überwiegend als fremd. Es mangelt an inhaltlichen Modellentwürfen, Vorgehensmodellen und an kommunale Entscheidungsträger gerichtete Handlungsempfehlungen, die sich am Aufgabenportfolio, den speziellen Rahmenbedingungen und Herausforderungen kreisangehöriger Gemeinden in einer Größenklasse bis 20.000 Einwohner orientieren. Dieses Buch widmet sich diesen Aufgabenstellungen und entwirft erstens ein inhaltliches Modell einer smarten Kommune als Spiegelbild zur smarten Stadt. Zweitens wird in dieser Analyse auf der Grundlage von Erfahrungen baden-württembergischer Pilotkommunen ein schrittweises Vorgehen zur Entwicklung eines individuellen Modells der smarten Kommune für kleine Gemeinden aufgezeigt.Table of ContentsGegenstandsbereich der empirischen Untersuchung.- Basisinterviewleitfaden der Expertengruppe Bürgermeister.- Basisinterviewleitfaden der Expertengruppe Verwaltungsmitarbeiterinnen.- Anonymisiertes Rekrutierungsschreiben.- Hierarchisches Kategoriensystem.- Thesen der Gruppendiskussion.- Anonymisierte Protokolle und Berichte zu Gemeinderatssitzungen.- Anonymisiertes Fotoprotokoll zum Zukunftsforum der mittelgroßen Gemeinde E.- Post-Interview-Memo zum Interview mit BGMI.- Kategorienlandkarte.- Häufigkeitsanalyse: Kodierungen aller Kategorien über alle Dokumente.- Häufigkeitsanalyse: kodierte Kategorien pro Dokument.- Durchschnitt von Kodierungen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Lern- und Bildungsprozesse beim Übergang in die
Book SynopsisDieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Einzelnen den Übergang in die Elternschaft durchlaufen. Insbesondere beim ersten Kind birgt der Übergang diverse krisenhaft besetzte Veränderungen, zu denen sich die Eltern irgendwie verhalten müssen. Auf diese unterschiedlichen Lernherausforderungen wird mit Lern- und Bildungsprozessen reagiert, mit deren Themenkomplex sich dieses Buch beschäftigt. Interessant ist dabei, wie die Personen sich in die neue Rolle als Eltern hineinfinden und wie die gesamte (Lern-)Entwicklung beziehungswiese Lerngeschichte der Person in ihrer Spezifik, aber auch in ihrer Gesamtheit abläuft. Dafür werden narrativ-biographische Interviews mit Eltern, deren erstes Kind zum Zeitpunkt des Interviews zwei Jahre alt ist, analysiert. Dabei wird mit einem biographieanalytischen Verfahren gearbeitet und ein Vorschlag zur theoretischen Weiterentwicklung und zur Veralltäglichung von Lern- und Bildungsprozessen entwickelt.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Lern- Und Bildungsprozesse.- Übergänge Und Transitionen.- Elternschaft.- Methodik.- Interviewanalysen.- Übergreifende Soziale Und Gesellschaftliche Ergebnisse.- Lern- Und Bildungsprozesse Beim Übergang In Die Elternschaft.- Vorschlag Zur Theoretischen Weiterentwicklung Und Der Veralltäglichung Von Lern- Und .- Bildungsprozessen.- Zusammenführende Erkenntnisse.- Zusammenführende Erkenntnisse.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Feudalism Debate
Book SynopsisThis extensive reopening of all firmly held views turned the debate into a most satisfying experience, for it emphasized exploration rather than agreement. Most contributions to the debate are being published in this volume.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Openness in Practice: Understanding Attitudes to
Book SynopsisThis book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies illustrating contemporary open data practices, this book discusses how open data has evolved, why certain barriers to openness exist and what the future of open data might look like. It highlights both the challenges and approaches to ‘best practice’ in government departments and agencies as they adapt to changing data ecosystems and public expectations around access, transparency, risk and responsible stewardship.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. What is Open Data? Historical and Instrumental Perspectives 3. Comparing Open Data Programs in Victoria, Australia 4: Working in Open Data 5: Open Data Futures
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Smart Cities in Asia: Regulations, Problems, and
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualize smart cities and provide an overview of these cities’ problems such as privacy and data protection concern. The general chapters also discuss the role of public and private sectors in developing and governing smart cities. The second part encompasses country-specific chapters that examine the concepts addressed in the general chapters in practice by analyzing several specific smart city projects.This book provides researchers and practitioners with some knowledge of a smart city and its implication in the Asia context. The book is designed with some general chapters updating the literature on smart cities for readers who are interested in an overview of this concept. Audiences who are curious about how smart cities are perceived and implemented in some Asian jurisdictions are benefited from country-specific chapters. The book is also helpful to general audiences whose interests lay at the intersection of law, governance, and technology.Trade Review“This concise open access book follows in a line of comparative investigations of how laws impact the development of smart cities. … this insightful book suggests that a future clash between international expectations and proposed use of smart wristbands and other surveillance technology in Phuket may necessitate legal provisions to cope with the disconnect from foreign laws protecting private data. Updating legislation to meet contemporary needs would be Welcome for protecting personal data and privacy in Thailand’s smart Cities.” (Benjamin Ivry, Thai Legal Studies, Vol. 3 (2), 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Conceptualizing Smart Cities: An Overview of Technology and Governance.- Data Privacy Challenges in Smart Cities.- Hong Kong: Does a Smart City Need a Coherent Policy for External Data Flows to Really be Smart?.- The Promise and Challenges of Privacy in Smart City: The Case of Phuket.- Smart City and Privacy Concerns During COVID-19:Lessons from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.- The Legal Framework of Smart Cities in Vietnam.- Smart Cities in Vietnam: From the Perspective of the Banking Industry.- Developing Smart City Infrastructure Inside a Historical City – A Case from Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Capacity Building in Local Authorities for
Book SynopsisThis book is conceptualized as being of interest to researchers in the field of sustainable transport, and also those who are working in the field. In the first case it will provide a reference on the state of the art of sustainable transport, and will also include insights into an EU project, how to go about delivering impact, how such projects effect local authorities, etc. Sustainable transport is an extreme growth area; it is highly innovative, with multi-million-pound investments transforming cities. The book will help and encourage resource poor small to medium local authorities catch up and meet their sustainability targets.Table of Contents Introduction.- Contextual overview: why is capacity a problem.- Relationships of capacity building with SUMPS 2.- Sumps implementation: designation of capacity gaps of local authorities in the delivery of smart and sustainable projects.- Emergent capacity needs.- Delivering capacity building in small to medium local authorities.- Introduction to capacity building toolset and SUITS capacity outputs.
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Palgrave Macmillan Service Delivery and the Pulse of Citizen
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Urban Governance, Service Delivery and Citizen Satisfaction in Bangladesh.-Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Framework.- Institutional and Policy Framework of Urban Service Delivery in Bangladesh.- Technology and Innovation in Service Delivery.- Citizen Expectations and Public Service Delivery.- Key Sectors of Urban Service Delivery.- Measuring Citizen Satisfaction in Urban Services of Bangladesh.- Theoretical Frameworks vs. Real-World Applications.- Major Findings of Empirical Research.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Transportation Policy and Project Evaluation
Book SynopsisThis book adopts a methodology-focused approach, concentrating on quantitative techniques for transportation. The prevailing research features three key research categories: cross-sectional regression models, simulation (forecasting) methods, and causal inference models.
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Palgrave Macmillan Common Prosperity
Book SynopsisChapter One: Common Prosperity and the Incorporation of Marxism into China's Practice.- Chapter Two: Social State and Common Prosperity.- Chapter Three: Common Prosperity and Prospects for China's Economic Development.- Chapter Four: Common Prosperity and China's Modernization Model.- Chapter Five: The Whole Process of an Open Economy and Social Justice.- Chapter Six: Sustainable Urban Development, Urban Governance, and Common Prosperity.- Chapter Seven: Advancing Common Prosperity through China's Rural Revitalization.- Chapter Eight: Common Prosperity and China's Second WTO Accession.- Chapter Nine: Expanding the Middle Class and Advancing Reform in Personal Income Tax.- Chapter Ten: Revitalizing Private Enterprises and Fostering Common Prosperity.- Chapter Eleven: Analysis of the Domestic Environment for Chinese Private Enterprises.- Chapter Twelve: Global Context for Chinese Private Enterprises.
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Taylor & Francis Place Policy and Politics
Book SynopsisThe past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual localities to exercise any control over their own growth and decline. Place, Policy and Politics examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting localities, ranging from the outer council estates of Merseyside to the boom towns of Cheltenham and Swindon. Throughout their analysis, the contributors, drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, address the vital questions in the debate over local policy initiatives, including: * To what extent are localities able to harness trends in the national aTrade Review`These studies add a great deal to our knowledge of the process of local economic regeneration from a political economy perspective and the interrelationships between the political and economic interests operating in these localities. Localities do matter.' - Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: The Institutional Context of Local Economic Development: Central Controls, Spatial Policies and Local Economic Policies, C.G. Pickvance Swindon: The Rise and Decline of a Growth Coalition, Keith Bassett & Michael Harloe Trying to Revive an Infant Hercules: The Rise and Fall of Local Authority Modernization Policies on Teeside, Ray Hudson Merseyside in Crisis and in Conflict, Richard Meegan Coping with Restructuring: The Case of South-West Birmingham, Dennis Smith Regency Icons: Marketing Cheltenham's Built Environment, Harry Cowen Lancaster: Small Firms, Tourism and the Locality, John Urry Council Economic intervention and Political Conflict in a Declining Resort: Isle of Thanet, C.G. Pickvance Conclusion: Places and Policies, John Urry
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Taylor & Francis Inc Classics Of Administrative Ethics
Book SynopsisThis anthology will be appropriate for administrative ethics classes and professional thinking in public administration at both the masters and doctoral levels. It is a collection of administrative ethics articles published in journals of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) from 1941 (the earliest publication) through 1983 (the year that the first ASPA Code of Ethics was established). The articles are organized by themes of enduring importance to the field in order to provide graduate students with ready access to the classic works on ethics in public administration. Reading this collection will enhance student''s knowledge and skills to think and act ethically and contribute to their ability to view current practices in light of traditional perspectives. The ASPA Classics volume serves to bridge the practice of public policy and administration with the empirical research base that has accrued and the models for practice that may be deduced from the researchTable of ContentsIntroduction , Credits , Administrative Responsibility , Administrative Responsibility in Democratic Government , Ethics and Administrative Discretion , Trends of a Decade in Administrative Values , Ethics and the Public Service , The Possibility of Administrative Ethics , Solving Ethical Dilemmas , Ethical Guidelines for Public Administrators: Observations on Rules of the Game , Ethical Dilemmas in Forecasting for Public Policy , Types and Levels of Public Morality , Managing Competing Claims: An Ethical Framework for Human Resource Decision Making , Corruption , A Scandal in Utopia , Reflections on Watergate: Lessons for Public Administration , Administrative Corruption , New Directions in the Study of Administrative Corruption , Codes of Ethics , A Code of Ethics as a Means of Controlling Administrative Conduct , Ethics in the Public Service , The Problem of Moral Reasoning in American Public Administration: The Case for a Code of Ethics , Enforcing Ethical Behavior , Ethics in Government as a Problem in Executive Management , Whistle-Blowing in the Public Service: An Overview of the Issues , The Inspector General Concept: Where It's Been, Where It's Going , Ethics Education , The Study of Ethics in the P.A. Curriculum , Two Approaches to Police Ethics , Teaching Moral Education in Public Administration , Professionalism , The Managerial Ethic and Productivity Improvement , Citizenship and Professionalism in Public Administration , The Public Service and the Patriotism of Benevolence , Professionalism, Legitimacy, and the Constitution , Ethics in the Twenty-First Century , Politics and Inventing the Future: Perspectives in Science and Government , Administrative Crisis: The Neglect of Metaphysical Speculation , Civis, Civitas, and Civilitas: A New Focus for the Year 2000
£58.99
Cambridge University Press The Territorial Imperative
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Cambridge University Press Quiet Days in Burgundy
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Cambridge University Press Politics in Place
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Cambridge University Press Local Politics and Participation in Britain and France
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Cambridge University Press Boundary Control
Book SynopsisThe democratization of the national government is only the first step in diffusing democracy throughout a country's territory. After a national government is democratized, subnational authoritarian 'enclaves' often continue to deny rights to citizens of local jurisdictions. Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of normal democratic politics.Trade Review'Gibson's conceptualization of boundary control as a key mechanism that facilitates the maintenance of subnational authoritarianism in the context of national level democracies is a foundational contribution to an important and growing literature. The explanation of dynamics in three very different cases - the 'Solid South' in the United States, Argentina and Mexico - is compelling, and the book is beautifully written. This is a must read for anybody interested in the complexities of democratization.' Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'This is an imaginative and path-breaking book. The conceptual and theoretical work Gibson accomplishes will help usher in a new scholarly conversation made even more urgent by the uneven nature of democratizations since the 'third wave'. By taking a subnational turn in thinking about regime change, Gibson reveals how the rise of authoritarian rule and its demise are often much more complex and contradictory processes than we had realized. Comparativists - including their less parochial Americanist colleagues - can make great use of what Gibson has achieved.' Robert Mickey, University of Michigan'Professor Gibson's ambitious new book involves a far-reaching reassessment of some core assumptions in comparative politics. It contests the bias toward the 'national-level' unit of analysis, and proposes a more conceptually sophisticated understanding of territorial politics, with its specific logic and consequences. This approach is grounded on an insightful examination of some major instances that are not normally juxtaposed. In particular, Gibson looks at the US political system through a distinctive and illuminating comparative lens. This is a bold contribution likely to provoke a lively debate.' Laurence Whitehead, University of Oxford'By opening up the black box of subnational politics, and problematizing the interaction between national and territorial regimes, Gibson provides an important contribution to the comparative study of democratization. Summing up: highly recommended.' S. P. Duffy, Choice'Gibson concurs in emphasizing the importance of whether a given federal system is 'municipal-empowering' or 'province-empowering,' and identifies 'plural cities' as potential problem sites for provincial authoritarians.' Kent Eaton, Latin American Research ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Territorial politics and subnational democratization: charting the theoretical landscape; 3. Subnational authoritarianism in the United States: boundary control and the 'Solid South'; 4. Boundary control in democratizing Argentina; 5. Boundary control in democratizing Mexico; 6. Boundary control: comparisons and conclusions.
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Book SynopsisThis book explains how states informally regulate drug markets in Latin America. It shows how and why state actors, specifically police and politicians, confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to extract illicit rents or prevent criminal violence. The book highlights how, in countries with weak institutions, police act as interlocutors between criminals and politicians. It shows that whether and how politicians control their police forces explains the prevalence of different informal regulatory arrangements to control drug markets. Using detailed case studies built on 180 interviews in four cities in Argentina and Brazil, the book reconstructs how these informal regulatory arrangements emerged and changed over time.Trade Review'We long suspected that state actors in Argentina and Brazil were deeply involved in illicit narcotics markets and that this involvement was producing the interpersonal violence that periodically shakes these countries. But we didn't know how state intervention, drug trafficking, and violence intersect and interact. This book systematically dissects this relation and offers a novel and insightful perspective to understand and explain one of the most intractable issues in contemporary Latin America. Superbly written and brilliantly argued, the plethora of scholarly and policy lessons packed in this book will make it an unavoidable reference in the study of contemporary Latin America.' Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas-Austin, author of The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins'When and how do illicit markets come to be jointly governed by states and organized crime? Hernán Flom unpacks how relations between politicians, police, and criminals generate informal regulatory arrangements that shape state and criminal violence associated with drug markets in Latin America. Insightful theorization and rich empirics make this book an important contribution to the growing research on the politics of crime.' Eduardo Moncada, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University and author of Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2021)'This path-breaking book explains how politics in weakly institutionalized democracies shape the ways in which state authorities and the police informally regulate illicit drug markets. Theoretically insightful and empirically rich, Flom's study of four metropolitan areas in Argentina and Brazil masterfully weaves the voices of hundreds of cops and politicians into a cogent explanation of the different uses of violence and corruption to govern illicit markets in the Global South. The book is essential reading for students of governance, regulation, illicit economies, crime, and the police.' Guillermo Trejo, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame'Hernán Flom studies rigorously the relationship between elected politicians and police to explain diverse informal regulatory regimes of drug markets in Argentina and Brazil. This book contributes to theorizing the multiple, and often unexpected, ways in which states interact with drug markets, not only repressing them or enforcing the law, but also tolerating, preying upon, or protecting them. His focus on the police as a pivotal actor expands our knowledge of the intricate dynamics that connect states and criminal markets. The book is an important addition to the literature on criminal violence, drug markets, and policing.' Angélica Durán-Martínez, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Global Studies Ph.D. Program, The University of Massachusetts LowellTable of Contents1. Informal regulation of criminal markets in Latin America; 2. A theory of drug market regulation; 3. Particularistic confrontation: The persistent war between gangs and police in Rio De Janeiro; 4. Particularistic negotiation: The decentralization of police corruption and increase in violence in Rosario, Santa Fe; 5. Coordinated protection: The consolidation of centralized corruption in Buenos Aires; 6. Coordinated coexistence: The consolidation of a police-gang truce in São Paulo; 7. Regulation of criminal markets in weak institutional contexts.
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