This Handbook looks at how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed by the world s largest political party in the world s longest-ruling Communist regime, China is undergoing a transitional period of rapid economic and social development. How this period is managed will have significant implications for the Chinese state and its population concerning China s governance structures and economy, as well as the country s justice, public health, education and internal/external security concerns. This transition to a...
This Handbook looks at how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed...
This is a major new volume in the 'Routledge International Handbooks' series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other likely (Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Korea) as well as possible (Vietnam, The Philippines, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Colombia and Argentina) candidates for emerging economy status. Chapters on theories surrounding emerging markets (including the Beijing/Washington Consensus debate) offer an overview of current issues in development economics, in addition to providing an...
This is a major new volume in the 'Routledge International Handbooks' series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRICS count...
Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, and political implications. This collection of essays from leading researchers examines the history, dynamics and impact of Internet gambling in a global context.
Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, and political implications. This collection of ...
It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive overview of current perspectives, techniques and approaches to the analysis of sport policy around the world. The book introduces a diverse range of approaches to policy analysis across the full range of political and societal contexts, including developed and developing economies; state-centric,...
It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and o...
This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies, tracing the emergent issues at stake in the discipline and examining Leisure Studies fundamental connections with cognate disciplines such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Sport Studies and Tourism.
This book contains original work from key scholars across the globe, including those...
This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge dev...
This handbook's clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies.
This handbook's clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical socio...
This volume reviews the state of the field of world-systems analysis. World-systems analysts study the structure of the relationships among people, organisations, and states and how those relationships change over time.
This volume reviews the state of the field of world-systems analysis. World-systems analysts study the structure of the relationships among people, or...
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation to climate change has received comparatively little attention. However, this area is is critical and a central pillar of any adaptation strategy or plan and is the economic dimension, which therefore merits the increase in attention it is receiving.
This book deals with the difficulties that face the economics of...
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all region...
In the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established disciplines and from relatively young ones. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and deep space for consideration of the place of science and technology in the world, past and present. This title seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the field by presenting work which...
In the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, me...
