This book examines gender assumptions in family policies in East Asia, particularly in relation to work-family balance. Reconciling paid and unpaid work has become an important issue for academics and policymakers in Western welfare stat...
This book presents 13 pioneering essays on policy over- and underreaction by Moshe Maor, a leading authority on disproportionate policy responses. Maor construes disproportion in an empirical rather than normative manner to improve our u...
Edited by Vasilis Galis, Helene O.I. Gundhus, Antonis Vradis
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.
Taking a critical approach, this book advances understanding of the social, legal and ethica...
Edited by Adrián Zancajo, Clara Fontdevila, Huriya Jabbar, Antoni Verger
This Research Handbook analyses global trends within education privatization and marketization, two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy. An international array of expert contributors present illuminating case stud...
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues on governance in various tourism research, policy, and development contexts. Expert contributors examine the relationship between governance, sustainability, resilien...
Exploring the impacts of the severe disruption caused by COVID-19 on major cities, Peter Karl Kresl expertly expands upon the nature of the challenges this has posed. He examines the policies that local leaders can adopt to limit long-la...
In the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, contributing authors present novel ways to conceptualise environmental harm and describe its contemporary manifestations, identifying how to combat these crimes to ensure a sustainable fu...
The theory of education as expanding dialogue outlined in this insightful book shows how education can be designed to support the collective intelligence and global citizenship we need in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene an...
This updated third edition of the Introduction to Comparative Public Administration explores the cultural, organizational, personnel and financial aspects of public administration across a wide range of European countries. The authors pr...
Edited by Alessio M. Pacces, Edoardo D. Martino, Hossein Nabilou
Comparative Financial Regulation investigates the key drivers of divergence and convergence in financial regulation and analyses the consequences in terms of market efficiency, investor protection and financial stability. It adopts a bro...
Edited by Syahirah Abdul-Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Jen Nelles, Tim Vorley
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.
As the world faces new complex challenges, we need innovations in how public policy can supp...
Agnieszka Szpak, Robert Gawłowski, Joanna Modrzyńska, Paweł Modrzyński, Michał Dahl
With illustrative case studies on international organizations and transnational city networks across Europe, this innovative book argues that cities are becoming more active participants in international law-making and challenging the pr...