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Book SynopsisUsing an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.Table of Contents1. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care Systems Ideas2. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems?3. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important?4. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems5. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care Systems Actor?6. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas7. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny8. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested Discourses

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Book SynopsisAn understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty. By drawing upon international perspectives, this book investigates why more and more people are in debt, why it is causing so much mental distress and exactly who is benefiting from what has become the world's number one growth industry.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Serdar M. Degirmencioglu and Carl Walker PART I: AUSTERITY, FINANCIALISATION AND SERIAL ASSET EXTRACTION: UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONALISED SUFFERING 1. Debt in the Everyday Lives of 100 Families Experiencing Urban Poverty in New Zealand; Darrin Hodgetts, Shiloh Groot, Kerry Chamberlain and Emily Garden 2. All Roads Lead to Finance: A Critical Overview of Debt in the U.S.; Daniel G Cooper and Bradley D Olson 3. The Impact of the 'Swiss Francs Loans' Crisis on Croatian Households; Petra Rodik 4. The Consequences of Evictions in Spain; Aida Ballester, Moises Carmona, Ruben David Fernandez, Ana Gonzalez, Johanna Jimenez, Elies Martinez, Irene Moulas, Laura Peret, and Carolina Viano 5. The Experiences of Individuals in Debt During an Era of Extreme Austerity in Greece; Alexandre Papamichail and Petros Mizamidis PART II: THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE DEBT INDUSTRY: DISCOURSE AND WELLBEING 6. Debt Dynamics in the UK and Beyond: How Propaganda Impedes Effective Political Action; Mark Burton 7. The Social Construction of 'Indebted Man': Economic Crisis, Discursive Violence and the Role of Mass Media in Italy; Adriano Zamperini and Marialuisa Menegatto 8. Chasing Happiness through Personal Debt: An Example of Neoliberal Influence in the Norwegian Society; Salman Turken, Erik Carlquist and Henry Allen 9. 'Financial Capability' Considered from a Community Psychology-informed Process in the North East of England; Jacqui Akhurst and Jacqui Lovell 10. The Indebted Individual: Dominant Discourses and Alternative Understandings of Personal Debt in the UK; Paul Hanna, Liz Cunningham and Carl Walker PART III: POLITICAL HISTORIES OF PERSONAL DEBT: MANAGED DECLINE, THE DEBT INDUSTRY AND WELLBEING 11. Peer-to-Peer Lending As a New Profit Industry and Debt Trap; Ceylan Cizmeli and Mert Demir 12. Rethinking the Personal Debt Industry: Voices from Puerto Rico; Dolores S. Miranda Gierbolini and Ida de Jesus Collazo 13. Personal Debt in a Third World Latin American society; Douglas Marlon Arevalo Mira 14. The Personal Debt Industry: Racist debt practices and Pasifika peoples in New Zealand; Bruce Curtis and Cate Curtis Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement.Trade Review “Paid Work Beyond Pension Age – Comparative Perspectives is an important book for all those who are interested in social policy, employment and labour law, old age and ageing and social inequalities. It is not designed for members of the academic community alone, but it reaches a wider circle of readers where it resonates with the search for many answers that come from actual questions about paid work beyond pensionable age.” (Filip Bojic, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 20 (4), December, 2018)“The authors in Paid Work Beyond Pension Age: Comparative Perspectives make a significant contribution to these ongoing discussions by examining antecedence, context, and outcomes of labor market activity among older adults in England, Germany, United States, Italy, Sweden, Russia, and China. … I highly recommend this book.” (Ernest Gonzales, Gerontologist, Vol. 56 (3), June, 2016)“One of the first books to examine this emerging phenomenon. It outlines the extent and characteristics of work after retirement and it ties the empirical evidence in with established theories.. … I found the book an interesting read which presents new insights. … Readers who are familiar with current arguments in ageing research may therefore, want to read the case studies only, whereas readers who are new to this topic would benefit from reading the entire volume.” (Kathrin Komp, Acta Sociologica, Vol. 59 (3), 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Paid Work Beyond Pension Age - Causes, Contexts, Consequences; Simone Scherger PART I: COUNTRY CASES 2. Work Beyond Age 65 In England And The United States; David Lain 3. The Social Stratification Of Work Beyond Pension Age In Germany And The UK: Quantitative And Qualitative Evidence; Anna Hokema And Thomas Lux 4. Characteristics Of Working Pensioners In Italy: Between Early Retirement Tradition And Reforms To Extend Working Life; Andrea Principi, Pietro Checcucci, Mirko Di Rosa And Giovanni Lamura 5 Work Beyond Pension Age In Sweden: Does A Prolonged Work Life Lead To Increasing Class Inequalities Among Older People?; Bjorn Hallerod 6. Work Beyond Pension Age In Russia: Labour Market Dynamics And Job Stability In A Turbulent Economy; Jonas Radl And Theodore P. Gerber 7. Working Pensioners In China: Financial Necessity Or Luxury Of Choice?; Ge Yu And Klaus Schomann PART II: CONTEXTS 8. Pension Reform In Europe: Context, Drivers, Impact; Karen M. Anderson 9. The Transition To Retirement: The Influence Of Globalization, Public Policy And Company Policies; Victor W. Marshall 10. Companies And Older Workers: Obstacles And Drivers Of Labour Market Participation In Recruitment And At The Workplace; Jutta Schmitz 11. Concepts Of Retirement: Comparing Unions, Employers And Age-Related Non-Profit Organizations In Germany And The UK; Steffen Hagemann And Simone Scherger PART III: CONSEQUENCES 12. Later-Life Work, Health And Wellbeing: Enduring Inequalities; Katey Matthews And James Nazroo 13. The Decline Of 'Late Freedom'? Work, Retirement And Activation - Comparative Insights From Germany And The USA; Silke Van Dyk 14. Open Questions And Future Prospects: Towards New Balances Between Work And Retirement?; Harald Kunemund And Simone Scherger

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Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disasterand an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue.In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a str

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.Trade Review“This is an extremely well-conceived, well-edited volume, shedding salutary light on a whole range of subjects related to diaspora and migration. It will be of great interest to those working on history, cultural studies, and politics.” (Gabriel Paquette, Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 52 (2), December, 2015)"The role of the empire in building the grandeur of the Portuguese destiny has, as Imperial Migrations shows so excellently, obscured the multiple agencies involved in imperial constructions. Decentring empires involves acknowledging diasporas, and in so doing acknowledging the multiplicities inherent in the project of modernity, both in the past and in the present." - Toby Green, Africa, 84(4) "This book provides a wide panorama [...] aim in 330 pages of the migrations within the spaces colonized by Portugal and/or those of the people subjected to Portuguese colonization. [...] it allows us to draw interesting comparisons with other imperial situations. Thus it contributes, by including the spaces colonized by Portugal, to current debates within the field of imperial studies, connected history, and global history." - Victor Pereira, African Affairs, 144(456)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes of Contributors Introduction: Portugal, Empire and Migrations; E.Morier-Genoud & M.Cahen PART I: LONGUE-DUREE MIGRATIONS IN AND AROUND THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE 'Portuguese' Diasporas: A Survey of the Scholarly Literature; E.Alpers & M.Ball Africans in Portuguese Society: Classification Ambiguities and Colonial Realities; I.C.Henriques PART II: COLONIAL MIGRATIONS IN THE THIRD PORTUGUESE EMPIRE Colonial Migration to Angola and Mozambique: Constraints and Illusions; C.Castelo Imperial Actors? Cape Verdean Mentality in the Portuguese Empire Under the Estado Novo, 1926–1974; A.Keese Unlike the other Whites? The Swiss in Mozambique under Colonialism; S.Chichava The Ismailis of Mozambique. History of a Twofold Migration (late 19th Century-1975); N.Khouri & J.P.Leite PART III: MIGRATIONS AT THE MARGINS OF THE THIRD EMPIRE Representing the Portuguese Empire: Goan Consuls in British East Africa, c.1920-1950; M.Frenz The Making of a Portuguese Community in South Africa, 1900-1994; C.Glaser From Mozambique to Brazil: The 'Good Portuguese' of the Chinese Athletic Club; L.Macagno PART IV: IDEOLOGY AND HERITAGE Luso-African Intimacies: Conceptions of National and Transnational Community; R.Williams 'Mundo Pretuguês': Colonial and Postcolonial Diasporic Dis/articulations; A.Vakil 'Portugal is in the Sky': Conceptual Considerations on Communities, Lusitanity and Lusophony; M.Cahen Conclusion: Decolonization and Diaspora; J.Darwin Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPreface Introduction PARTI: 1960s-1970s The 'Old': Self-help, Phoenix House and the Rehabilitation of Drug Users The 'New'? New Social Movements and Release Drug Voluntary Organisations and the State in the 1960s and 1970s PART II: 1980s Rolling Back the State? The Central Funding Initiative for Drug Services Activism and Health: The Impact of AIDS PARTII: 1990s-2000s Business Models or the Revival of the State? Users: Service Users and the Drug User Movement Conclusion BibliographyTrade Review'We are lucky that two such talented scholars, with such a wealth of knowledge in the field, have joined together to write this ambitious and analytically rich book.' Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph, Social History of Medicine, vol 24, no 3, December 2011Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I: 1960s-1970s The 'Old': Self-help, Phoenix House and the Rehabilitation of Drug Users The 'New'? New Social Movements and Release Drug Voluntary Organisations and the State in the 1960s and 1970s PART II: 1980s Rolling Back the State? The Central Funding Initiative for Drug Services Activism and Health: The Impact of AIDS PART II: 1990s-2000s Business Models or the Revival of the State? Users: Service Users and the Drug User Movement Conclusion Bibliography

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Book Synopsis1. Healthcare Policy and Governance in Internal Perspective; Ellen Kuhlmann, Robert H. Blank, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, and Claus Wendt PART I: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 2. Healthcare Policy and Innovation; Richard B. Saltman 3. Global Healthcare Policy and the Austerity Agenda; Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté and Rylan H. Parker 4. Healthcare Policy and Finance; Claus Wendt 5. Primary Healthcare as a Global Concept; Robin Gauld 6. Maternity Care as a Global Health Policy Issue; Cecilia Benoit, Eugene Declercq, Susan F. Murray, Jane Sandall, Edwin van Teijlingen and Sirpa Wrede 7. Typologies of Healthcare Systems and Policies; Viola Burau, Robert H. Blank and Emmanuele Pavolini 8. Comparison of Healthcare Systems Performance; Irene Papanicolas and Jonathan Cylus PART II: HEALTH POLICY REFORM: GLOBAL TRENDS, LOCAL ROADMAPS 9 Health policy reform in China Vivian Lin and Hongwen Zhao 10. Health Policy Reform in India: Some Critical Concerns; Gita Sen and Aditi Iyer 11. Health PolicyTrade ReviewTable of Contents1. Healthcare Policy and Governance in Internal Perspective; Ellen Kuhlmann, Robert H. Blank, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, and Claus Wendt PART I: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 2. Healthcare Policy and Innovation; Richard B. Saltman 3. Global Healthcare Policy and the Austerity Agenda; Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté and Rylan H. Parker 4. Healthcare Policy and Finance; Claus Wendt 5. Primary Healthcare as a Global Concept; Robin Gauld 6. Maternity Care as a Global Health Policy Issue; Cecilia Benoit, Eugene Declercq, Susan F. Murray, Jane Sandall, Edwin van Teijlingen and Sirpa Wrede 7. Typologies of Healthcare Systems and Policies; Viola Burau, Robert H. Blank and Emmanuele Pavolini 8. Comparison of Healthcare Systems Performance; Irene Papanicolas and Jonathan Cylus PART II: HEALTH POLICY REFORM: GLOBAL TRENDS, LOCAL ROADMAPS 9 Health policy reform in China Vivian Lin and Hongwen Zhao 10. Health Policy Reform in India: Some Critical Concerns; Gita Sen and Aditi Iyer 11. Health Policy Reform in Low-income and Lower Middle-income Countries in Southeast Asia; Göran Tomson and Olivia Biermann 12 . Health Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa; Alex E. Asakitikpi 13. Health Policy Reform in South America; Ligia Giovanella and Mariana Faria 14 . Health Policy Reform in North America; Antonia Maioni and Theodore R. Marmor 15. Health Policy Reform in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union; Bernd Rechel 16. Health Policy in the European Union; Scott L. Greer and Margitta Mätzke PART III: HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY AND WORKFORCE GOVERNANCE 17. Bringing the Health Workforce Challenge to the Policy Agenda; Gilles Dussault 18. Health Human Resources Policy in Europe; Ellen Kuhlmann, Peter P. Groenewegen, Ronald Batenburg and Christa Larsen 19. Deploying and Managing Health Human Resources; Ivy Lynn Bourgeault 20 . Clinical Management and Professionalism; Ian Kirkpatrick, Kathy Hartley, Ellen Kuhlmann and Gianluca Veronesi 21 . Health Worker Migration in Context; James Buchan PART IV: CONCEPTS OF HEALTH POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 22. Mixed Governance and Finance in East Asian Healthcare Systems; Robert H. Blank and Shou-Hsia Cheng 23. Public-private Partnerships in Healthcare; A. Venkat Raman and James Warner Björkman 24. Financial Incentives and the Governance of Performance; Ruth McDonald 25. Dezentralization and Health System Governance; Scott L. Greer and Elize Massard da Fonseca 26. Leadership and Innovation in Healthcare Governance; Jean-Louis Denis and Nicolette van Gestel PART V: AREAS OF HEALTH POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 27. Governing Public Hospitals; Antonio Durán and Richard B. Saltman 28. Long-term Care Policies; Emmanuele Pavolini and Hildegard Theobald 29. Mental Health Policy and Governance; Joan Busfield 30. Health Policy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Mike Saks 31. Governing Regenerative Medicine; Andrew Webster and Alex Faulkner 32. E-health Policy and Benchmarking in the European Union; Wendy L. Currie and Jonathan J. M. Seddon PART VI: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND THE EQUALITY GAP 33. Equity in Health Reform; Marc J. Roberts 34. Citizenship and Healthcare Policy; Sigrun Olafsdottir and Elyas Bakhtiari 35. Gender and Healthcare Policy; Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale 36. Addressing Violence Against Women in Health Policies; Avni Amin, Eszter Kismödi and Claudia García-Moreno 37. Ethnic Minority Groups in Healthcare Governance; Hurriyet Babacan and Narayan Gopalkrishnan 38. European Policies on Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants; Ewout van Ginneken and Bradford H. Gray 39. Ethics of Healthcare Policy and the Concept of Solidarity; Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx ?

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Book SynopsisWhile Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion.Trade Review"Together, these thirteen essays and Matthew Butler's introduction make an outstanding contribution to the study of twentieth-century Mexico and the politics of religion during the tumultuous 1910-1940 period. This book amounts to the first far-reaching entry into the history of church and religion in Mexico then that goes beyond the Cristero Rebellion and a teleological, top-level narrative of nation-building and 'defanaticization.' The roots and many branches of anti-clericalism are at the center of the book, and the perspectives are novel, often based on skillful use of hitherto untapped civil and ecclesiastical archives. Especially valuable is the attention to the southern states of Oaxaca, Campeche, Chiapas, and Tabasco, and to counterpoints of beliefs and practices, laws and their implementation, church and state, centers and peripheries, leaders and their constituencies, priests/politicians/teachers/lay catechists, Catholics/Protestants/Spiritists/ atheists in ways that break through familiar ways of thinking about tradition and modernity. The result is a more complex, synoptic understanding of a deeply contested history of religion and religious institutions in Mexico's public life." - William B. Taylor, Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of History, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Revolution in Spirit? Mexico, 1910-40 - Matthew Butler * PART I: REVOLUTIONARY RELIGIONS? * The Mentality and Modus Operandi of Revolutionary Anticlericalism - Alan Knight * The Regional Dynamics of Anticlericalism and Defanaticization in Revolutionary Mexico - Adrian A. Bantjes * Protestants, Freemasons, and Spiritists: Non-Catholic Religious Sociabilities and Mexico's Revolutionary Movement, 1910-20 - Jean-Pierre Bastian * Ethereal Allies: Spiritism and the Revolutionary Struggle in Hidalgo - Keith Brewster & Claire Brewster * "Anti-Priests" versus Catholic-Socialists in 1930s Campeche: Federal Teachers, Revolutionary Communes, and Anticlericalism - Ben Fallaw * Revolutionary and Not-So-Revolutionary Negotiations in Catholic Annulment, Bigamy, and Divorce Trials: The Archdiocese of Mexico, 1929-40 - Kristina A. Boylan * PART II: CATHOLICISM REVOLUTIONIZED? * Mexico's "Ritual Constant": Religion and Liberty from Colony to Post-Revolution - Fernando Cervantes * "The First Encounter": Catholic Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1917-19 - Robert Curley * Trouble Afoot?: Pilgrimage in Cristero Mexico City - Matthew Butler * "El Indio Gabriel": New Religious Perspectives among the Indigenous in Garrido Canabal's Tabasco (1927-30) - Massimo De Giuseppe * Religious Conflict and Catholic Resistance in 1930s Oaxaca - Jean Meyer * A Revolution in Local Catholicism?: Oaxaca, 1928-34 - Edward Wright-Rios * "The Priest's Party": Local Catholicism and Panismo in Huajuapam de León - Benjamin Smith

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: What Works in Crime Prevention? David Weisburd, David P. Farrington, and Charlotte Gill.- Chapter 2: Developmental and social prevention David P. Farrington, Friedrich Losel and Maria M. Ttofi.- Chapter 3: Community interventions Charlotte Gill.- Chapter 4: Situational prevention Kate J. Bowers and Shane D. Johnson.- Chapter 5: Policing Cody W. Telep and David Weisburd.- Chapter 6: Sentencing and deterrence Amanda E. Perry.- Chapter 7: Correctional programs David B. Wilson.- Chapter 8: Drug interventions Katy R. Holloway and Trevor H. Bennett.- Chapter 9: Qualitative data in systematic reviews Mimi Ajzenstadt.- Chapter 10: Evidence mapping to advance justice practice Michael S. Caudy, Faye S. Taxman, Lienshang Tang and Carolyn Watson.- Chapter 11: Economic analyses Jacqueline Mallender and Rory Tierney.- Chapter 12: Conclusion: What Works in Crime Prevention Revisited David Weisburd, David P. Farrington, and Charlotte Gill. Trade Review“What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons From Systematic Reviews, a volume in the Springer series on evidence-based crime policy, is a timely collection of 12 compendious chapters written by leading scholar … . Weisburd et al. is currently the best sourcebook of “big data” on correctional programs and would appeal to varied audiences, such as criminal justice policymakers and practitioners; crime prevention researchers and scholars; and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in criminology courses.” (Arthur J. Lurigio, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol, 61 (40), October, 2016)​Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: What Works in Crime Prevention? David Weisburd, David P. Farrington, and Charlotte Gill.- Chapter 2: Developmental and social prevention David P. Farrington, Friedrich Losel and Maria M. Ttofi.- Chapter 3: Community interventions Charlotte Gill.- Chapter 4: Situational prevention Kate J. Bowers and Shane D. Johnson.- Chapter 5: Policing Cody W. Telep and David Weisburd.- Chapter 6: Sentencing and deterrence Amanda E. Perry.- Chapter 7: Correctional programs David B. Wilson.- Chapter 8: Drug interventions Katy R. Holloway and Trevor H. Bennett.- Chapter 9: Qualitative data in systematic reviews Mimi Ajzenstadt.- Chapter 10: Evidence mapping to advance justice practice Michael S. Caudy, Faye S. Taxman, Lienshang Tang and Carolyn Watson.- Chapter 11: Economic analyses Jacqueline Mallender and Rory Tierney.- Chapter 12: Conclusion: What Works in Crime Prevention Revisited David Weisburd, David P. Farrington, and Charlotte Gill.

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Book SynopsisMost Americans are more aware of the workings of the federal government than of their own state governments. But these “laboratories of democracy” constitute perhaps the most creative components of the American political experiment.This book serves as a guide for students of government and provides a historical context for understanding the forces at work in the state’s political system. Among the states, Tennessee’s unique blend of legislative and executive powers is, in some respects, far more a product of personality than political ideology. This second edition describes these often colorful leaders and the issues they grappled with, including education, health care, corrections, economic development, and other key factors. A full analysis of government institutions embodied in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches is supplemented by added attention to county government and public administration.Fully up to date, this edition also provides key chapters on the media, political campaigns, and the rising dominance of the Republican Party in recent decades. In addition, it focuses on how a new generation of politicians—among them, Governor Bill Haslam, House Speaker Beth Harwell, and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero—have emerged to carry on the legacy of state leadership.

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Book SynopsisThe Mississippi Secession Convention is the first full treatment of any secession convention to date. Studying the Mississippi convention of 1861 offers insight into how and why southern states seceded and the effects of such a breech. Based largely on primary sources, this book provides a unique insight into the broader secession movement.There was more to the secession convention than the mere act of leaving the Union, which was done only three days into the deliberations. The rest of the three-week January 1861 meeting as well as an additional week in March saw the delegates debate and pass a number of important ordinances that for a time governed the state. As seen through the eyes of the delegates themselves, with rich research into each member, this book provides a compelling overview of the entire proceeding.The effects of the convention gain the most analysis in this study, including the political processes that, after the momentous vote, morphed into unlikely alliances. Those on opposite ends of the secession question quickly formed new political allegiances in a predominantly Confederate-minded convention. These new political factions formed largely over the issues of central versus local authority, which quickly played into Confederate versus state issues during the Civil War. In addition, author Timothy B. Smith considers the lasting consequences of defeat, looking into the effect secession and war had on the delegates themselves and, by extension, their state, Mississippi.

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Book SynopsisThis book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to the developing of policymaking and, in general, to the understanding of social phenomena. It draws from the experience and data of a large-scale project, RECRIRE, funded by the H2020 program that mapped the symbolic universes across Europe after the economic crisis. It further develops the relationship between culture and policy-making discussed in two previous volumes in this series, and constitutes the ideal third and final element of this trilogy. The book is a useful tool for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers attentive to the cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.Table of ContentsPART I. Framework.- Chapter 1. The meaning of culture and the call for policies of cultural development.- Chapter 2. Cultural theories and Policies.- PART 2. Field explorations.- Chapter 3. What to do. Cultural and symbolic components of place-based policy for migrants' inclusion.- Chapter 4. Innovation and institutions: Reframing policies and the culture of local administration.- Chapter 5. Economic policies as a driver of cultural development.- Chapter 6.The dialectic between demand and supply in welfare domain. How does policies can survive in context of high personality intensity.- Chapter 7. How, where and when culture matters. A meta-analysis of the case studies.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: culture and the need to re-politicize policy making.- PART 3. Discussion.-Chapter 9. Commentary.

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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 edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters derive from and speak to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South. They focus on presenting the alternative realities of Southern cities as critical analytical lenses that can build up to the theorisation of the Southern urban with a potential to (re)understand the contemporary urban world. The contributions explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods. In doing so, the volume breaks apart the linear modernity that urban theory from the North relies on. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery). - Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies. - Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua). - Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee). - Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón). - Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina. - (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe). - Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck). - Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern. - Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia). - Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda). - Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha). - Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson). - Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado). - Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu). - Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery)

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Book SynopsisThis open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and it is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy.The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics.Table of ContentsNetworks of Global Social Policy Diffusion: The Effects of Culture, Economy, Colonial legacies, and Geographic Proximity.- The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building.- Networks of Global Policy Diffusion. The Introduction of Compulsory Education.- The Global Diffusion of Adult Basic Education.- The Emergence of Healthcare Systems.- Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of an Emergent Field of Social Policy.- Origins of Family Policy: Prerequisites or Diffusion.- From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILO’s C111.- The Diffusion of Workplace Anti-discrimination Regulations for the LGBTQ+ Community.- Critical Summary and Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisAn overview of housing and the urban poor South of the Sahara.- Part 1: Embracing inequality in the production process.- Housing facilities challenges for internally displaced households in Bonaberi-Douala, Cameroon.- Housing delivery for the poor in informal settlements:  Contrapuntal urbanism in a postcolonial context of Windhoek, Namibia.- Land assembly for social housing developments and the advancement of spatial transformation: Case of the Aloe Ridge social housing project in Msunduzi Municipality.- From passive victims of elite housing policies to formal decision-making spaces for impactful delivery: Lessons from efforts of urban social movements in Zimbabwe.-Best practices for designing and building alternative models of smart affordable housing for low-income families.- Part 2: Housing finance.- Uncovering the inadequacies of South Africa's housing finance system: A deep dive into the persistent housing challenges.- The search for housing finance in contested housing schemes in post-2000 housing schemes in Harare.- Part 3: Balancing the formal and informal - Innovative trends.- Sport and recreational facilities as catalysts for development and social change in low-income human settlements in Greater Kokstad Municipality, South Africa.- Strategies for sustainable public housing programmes in Bauchi State, Nigeria.- Urban gatekeepers’ perception and challenges of planning implementation in north-central Nigeria.- Inclusionary housing and mixed-use development as a strategy to house the urban poor: Proposal for a selected precinct of Bloemfontein, South Africa.- (De)Constructing tenure prospects in emerging housing schemes – A case study of Harare.- Gender inequality and access to adequate housing provision in Buea, south west of Cameroon.- Backyard dwellings in the City of Cape Town: Implications for urban management.- Housing the urban poor – An Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisWas können chinesische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus dem japanischen Wirtschaftsboom und der anschließenden Stagnation lernen? Dieses Projekt zielt darauf ab, den Wachstumsmechanismus und die Determinanten der nachhaltigen Entwicklung in China im Vergleich zu den japanischen Erfahrungen institutionell und empirisch zu untersuchen. Dies ist die erste Herausforderung bei der Durchführung einer vergleichenden Studie über Chinas und Japans Wirtschaftswachstum und Entwicklung. Unser Ziel ist es, den Übergang des Wirtschaftssystems und seinen Einfluss auf die chinesische und japanische Wirtschaft aus makro- und mikroökonomischer Sicht zu untersuchen. Dieses Buch wird für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Wissenschaftler der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft und Wissenschaftler, die sich mit der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Chinas oder Japans befassen, von Interesse sein.Table of Contents1 Einleitung.- 2 Vergleiche des chinesischen und japanischen Entwicklungsprozesses aus wirtschaftlicher und politisch-ökonomischer Sicht.- 3 Handel, ausländische Direktinvestitionen und Wirtschaftswachstum.- 4 Das digitale China: Die vierte industrielle Revolution mit chinesischen Merkmalen.- 5 Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung in China: Vergleich mit der japanischen Erfahrung.- 6 Die Finanzinnovation in der Kapitalflußrechnung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Evidence from Japan.- 7 Human Capital Agglomeration Effect and Regional Inequality.- 8 Environmental Policies and Water Resource Management.- 9 Dual Economic Structure, Surplus Labor and Rural-Urban Migration.- 10 Household Consumption and Manufactural Industry Upgrading.- 11 Enterprise Ownership Reform and Wage Gaps between Public and Private Sectors.- 12 Mitgliedschaft in der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas und Lohnunterschiede zwischen Parteimitgliedern und Nichtmitgliedern.- 13 Auswirkungen der Gewerkschaften auf die Arbeitsbedingungen.- 14 Gleichstellungspolitik und geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede auf dem Arbeitsmarkt.- 15 Reform der staatlichen Rentenpolitik und Erwerbsbeteiligung.- 16 Erbschaftsmotive und Sparverhalten älterer Menschen.- 17 Einkommen, Einkommensungleichheit und subjektives Wohlbefinden.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction of Beautiful Countryside.- Rural Communities and Its Development.- Case Study of Shatan Village, Yutou Town.- Case Study of Shishitan Village, Yutou Town.- Case Study of Shangfeng Village, Yutou Town.

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