Central / national / federal government policies Books

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book engages in comparative socio-legal analysis to examine the contours of social justice in both countries.

This book navigates the uncharted territory where far-right populism intersects with climate change, presenting a nuanced examination that transcends traditional research boundaries.

This book proposes a new analytical framework that brings together the role of policies defining migrants as temporary and the role of migrant's own agency in perceiving their migration project as temporary or permanent. It was originally published as a...

This book explores the implications and significant ethical, social, economic and health challenges that an ageing world population presents. It provides valuable insights on concerns related to providing, organizing, planning and managing care of older...

Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency responses. This book's operational and theoretical insights will be useful for a range of readers, from...

This book provides an overview of China's distinctive community governance, examining its 2000-year history and describing its recent development under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

This book investigates the fast-learning experience of Covid-19's initial onset in a region long renowned for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of...

Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the landscape of program evaluation will be redefined by artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies. This book presents a pivotal resource for evaluators...

This volume traces India's developmental strategies and governance systems from state-led to market-driven models over seven decades, highlighting the disconnect between the values enshrined in the Constitution and the governance of policies.

First published in 1977, Arms Control and Technological Innovation is primarily concerned with three subjects: the causes of the arms race; the consequences of the arms race to the world; and the control of the arms race.

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level. It offers concepts, tools, and ways of thinking about how systems change that can be applied to the most wicked problems facing the world today.

Military disengagement from power in favour of a civilian government is not an uncommon phenomenon, especially in the developing world. First published in 1992, From Military to Civilian Rule is the first comparative study of the motives behind military...

Akreyi investigates the development of federal relations in Iraq from the adoption of the new Federal Constitution in 2005 to the Kurdistan independence referendum in 2017.

In an increasingly interconnected and digital world, this book provides comprehensive guidance on cybersecurity leadership specifically tailored to the context of public policy and administration in the Global South.

Continuing pressure on the funding of arts and culture in Europe is forcing cultural organizations to rethink their traditional ways of working. This book examines how an entrepreneurial arts organisation can leverage cultural philanthropy as alternative...

The book presents good practices in humanitarian assistance and empowerment of Ukrainian refugees in various areas.

This book discusses existing and future trends concerning the development of migratory policies between local and global levels, to understand the challenges and gaps in the protection of migrants. It explores international migration and its impact on...

This book introduces South Korea's public diplomacy and identifies and evaluates the goals and corresponding areas of current Yoon Suk Yeol administration. This book is a novel contribution to the field and will be of interest to researchers in...

This book explores the role of "home" in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, and temporary workers.

This book examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia. Of use to students and scholars of agri-food studies, Chinese studies and globalization with an...

Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability. A stellar line up of specialists, theorists, and practitioners in the field of development evaluation provide engaged analysis of key...

This innovative book investigates irregular migration by concurrently analysing the viewpoints of migrants, states, and their local populations.

This volume explores the nature, success, and challenges of governance innovations in South Asia. It compares innovations and reforms that have been undertaken specifically in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The book traces the journey of the Farmers' Movement of 2020-21 in India, as each essay dissects the socio-political dynamics, cultural nuances, and mass solidarity that underpinned the protests, including focussed analyses from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana,...

This book explores the political, economic, defence, and cultural relations of Poland with South Asia-Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka-since the late 1940s to the present. It examines how Polish...

This book critically analyses important social issues experienced in Australia, such as economic inequality, precarious work, unequal access to quality education and health care, housing insecurity, colonisation, racism and discrimination, activism and...

This book provides an account of the transformation of Chinese stakeholders' engagement in Internet governance, from normative contestation to integration, and from isolation to an industrial leadership role. The book concludes that Chinese stakeholders...

This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China's economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force...

This book compares the immigration policies of EU states and Asian countries-Germany, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam,- and Thailand-analyses the policy strengths and weaknesses of various political actors in the regions and...

This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests   critical systemic  pathways to  protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of rapid urbanisation places humanity...

This book is a comparative study of judge-managed court systems across Australia, Europe and North America. This book makes an original contribution to the literature of court administration by providing a framework for examining court-service models of...

This book examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia. Drawing on documentary and doctrinal legal analysis, this book investigates how, in the space of a single decade, Australian law makers set out to...

This book discusses the diversity and resilience in a hybrid regime where civil society organisations are either provided with complex sets of opportunities or face severe constraints. By studying the case of Iran between 1997 and 2013, it...

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies. The book demonstrates how PPP as a concept has grown over the years with many governments particularly from developing economies/countries...

This book focuses on an attractive theoretical subject as well as a practical issue, which analyses the inner relationship of economic growth and income distribution in China. During the forty years of China's reform and opening up many influential...

This book looks back to 40 years ago for the whole history of China's reform and opening-up and focuses on the role change of China in the relationship with outside world. In the first half part, the author explores China's economic reform...

This book is a joint endeavour of the three partner universities to develop a book with in-depth and state-of-art analysis for the academic community of East Asia and the world. Past disasters, like the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake in China and the 2011...

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly...

This book is the first of its kind to offer an understanding, analysis, and prediction of the state of civil society in Bangladesh in relation to development and democracy. It is  a research attempt to reveal the paradox found in developing...

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care...

This book celebrates the life and work of Peter Nijkamp, whose research provides a strong focus on regional science. His work follows a rigorous, comprehensive approach, centred around analytical modelling and methodological innovation. This edited...

This book takes an in-depth look at China's national economic development strategy promulgated by the CPC at its Nineteenth National Congress, held in October 2019, from a historical and scientific perspective.  Each of the fifteen chapters...

This book focuses on the global issue of ethnic problems and examines the theory and practice of how China addresses its ethnic problems from a macro perspective, following the guidelines formulated by the working conference on ethnic affairs of the...

This book provides an all-round analysis and exploration of the course, status quo and future of the Chinese Government's governance reform under the framework of government governance modernization. The authors bring their decades of experience in...