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Handbook on Urban Social Policies
Edited by Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca, Elisabetta Mocca
The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Pandemic Recovery?
Edited by Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon
This timely book offers an integrated and pragmatic approach to understanding recovery from all types of shock. Whilst particular focus is given to identifying and exploring various aspects of recovering societies in the context of COVID... -
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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements
Edited by Laurence Cox, Anna Szolucha, Alberto Arribas Lozano, Sutapa Chattopadhyay
This cutting-edge and authoritative Handbook covers a broad spectrum of social movement research methodologies, offering expert analysis and detailed accounts of the ways by which research can effectively be carried out on social movemen... -
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Teaching Peace and Conflict Studies
Susan F. Hirsch, Agnieszka Paczyńska
This insightful book guides instructors on how to introduce undergraduate and postgraduate students to the interdisciplinary work of Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS). Mindful that many students come to PACS with a desire to create posit... -
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Research Handbook on Urban Design
Edited by Marion Roberts, Suzy Nelson
With the UN-Habitat estimating that by 2035 the majority of the world’s population will be living in metropolitan areas, this cutting-edge Research Handbook explores the emerging field of urban design and its place in contemporary schola... -
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EU Cohesion Policy
Edited by Nicola F. Dotti, Ida Musiałkowska, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Julia Walczyk
This engaging and topical book comprehensively explores the complexities surrounding the EU Cohesion Policy, which has been addressing regional and urban development across Europe since the 1980s. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, i... -
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Bringing Bourdieu's Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis
Edited by Vincent Dubois
Laying down the foundations of a critical sociological approach to the interdisciplinary domain of public policy, this insightful book presents the first systematic reflection on the use of Bourdieu’s theory of social fields to analyse p... -
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Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions
Edited by Francesco Curci, Daniele Chiffi
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. Offering a novel and interdisciplinary approach, this thought-provoking book critically anal... -
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Handbook of Teaching Public Policy
Edited by Emily St.Denny, Philippe Zittoun
Pragmatic, progressive and global in its approach, this Handbook centres around the key question: How can we teach public policy? Presenting a wide variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, it expertly examines current appr... -
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Handbook on Measuring Governance
Edited by Peter Triantafillou, Jenny M. Lewis
Measuring governance has become an increasingly important feature of modern societies, with organizations and institutions expected to prove their worth by quantifying their activities and results. This unique Handbook maps historical de... -
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Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work
Edited by Martha Garcia-Murillo, Ian MacInnes, Andrea Renda
With the advancement in processing power and storage now enabling algorithms to expand their capabilities beyond their initial narrow applications, technology is becoming increasingly powerful. This highly topical Handbook provides a com... -
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The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell
Douglas Torgerson
Illuminating and timely, this book explores in depth Harold Lasswell’s prominent and controversial 20th century proposal for the ‘policy sciences’. With his extraordinary contextual focus, Lasswell stands apart as unique in the policy l...