Regionala och lokala styrelseorgans politik

Östra Blekinge stod och föll med omvärlden. Hoppfullhet eller hopplöshet? Sådant bestämdes i Stockholm. Att denna avkrok under en kort, berusande tid skulle bli ett av Europas hetaste IT-kluster lät som ett av den luttrade lokalbefolkningens bittr...

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För göteborgarna har diskussionen om Västlänken resulterat i ett historiskt stort engagemang. Få frågor har gett upphov till så många insändare och debattartiklar i tidningarna. Tre stora demonstrationer har genomförts. Två nya partier har bildats...

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Sjukvården är den fråga som flest väljare i Sverige tycker är allra viktigast. På flera ställen i Sverige anordnas demonstrationer mot krisen i sjukvården. Men vad är egentligen orsaken bakom sjukvårdens kris? Vilka politiska beslut, eller brist p...

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Ett interkulturellt perspektiv handlar om att skapa förutsättningar för en kultur av demokratiska, inkluderande möten. En kommunal organisation behöver verka för detta på flera sätt. Dels genom ett medvetet fokus på bemötande och mellanmänskliga r...

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This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists have turned environmental governance in Latin America...

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As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and 2011, the period of our best growth, there was also a substantial decline in the number of people below the poverty line. Since 2011, however, there...

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Short Circuiting Policy examines climate and energy politics over several decades to understand why US states are not on track to meet the climate crisis. It argues that electric utilities and clean energy companies battle over policy, and their r...

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Why did 34 states reject implementing a core part of Obamacare they said they would like, especially given the threat of losing control to the federal government? This book examines the role of governors, the Tea Party, and other interest groups i...

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Restorative Justice has become an important new way of thinking about crime, responsive regulation an influential way of thinking about business regulation. In this volume, John Braithwaite brings together his important work on restorative justive...

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Ungoverned and Out of Sight explores conflicting policy solutions in the highly decentralized U.S. homeless policy space. Alongside detailed case studies, it provides recommendations for policy makers to improve existing systems and deliver polici...

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The Associational Economy focuses on the ways firms are rediscovering the importance of regions in their quest to improve competitiveness through innovation. Evidence from firm and governance practices in four European regions supports more genera...

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Dismantling Public Policy seeks to develop a comparative approach to understanding policy dismantling. It looks at the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of existing policies.

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The emergence of new technologies and business models has required a pro-active role from public authorities in defining the rules of evolving markets before issues cement. This book surveys the key areas of the digital economy that demand policy ...

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In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security became the paramount concern of virtually everyone involved in governing the United States. While the public's most enduring memories of that time involve the actions of the Bush admini...

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"Barbara M. Hobson . . . makes a compelling case for the reform of prostitution policy in . . . Uneasy Virtue. [This volume] demonstrates an effective analytical approach to understanding public policy and its impact on prostitution policy. ....

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Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal...

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Can governments do anything right? Can they do anything at all about the problems of poverty and inequality? Despite the recent boom in the U.S. economy, many millions of Americans have been left behind. Poverty rates remain higher than in most ot...

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A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government. Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens capacity to influence, let alone control, their governments. Drawing on over eight decades of state-leve...

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Gerard Comeau, a retiree living in rural New Brunswick, never thought his booze run would turn him into a Canadian hero. In 2012, after Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into his home province, police officers p...

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From the growth of a multi-billion-dollar high-technology corridor in Malaysia to conflict over housing development in Chicago, the practice of regional and local economic development around the world is both dynamic and diverse. Regional and Loca...

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Success and failure are key to any consideration of public policy but there have been remarkably few attempts to assess systematically the various dimensions and complex nature of policy success. This important new text fills the gap by developing...

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A major new introduction to the UK planning system. It outlines the evolution and use of the new spatial planning approach which is increasingly adopted at all levels of the UK planning system from European through to the national, regional, sub-r...

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What does local self-government look like in the absence of sovereignty? From the beginning of its occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israel has experimented with different forms of rule. Since the 1990s, it has delegated certain governing respo...

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Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understa...

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Unplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, can cause significant hardships for rural communities by destroying critical stocks of fuel, fodder, food, and building materials. It can also have prof...

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Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (ILO). In this thought-provoking book, Edward Lorenz addresses the challenge laid down by the Presiden...

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Civil rights rhetoric has been central to the debate over U.S. immigration policy since at least the 1960s. A coalition of interest groups, including churches, ethnic organizations, civil rights groups, and employer associations has played a funda...

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Over the past century, solutions to natural resources policy issues have become increasingly complex. Multiple government agencies with overlapping jurisdictions and differing mandates as well as multiple interest groups have contributed to gridlo...

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After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such progr...

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