Despite significant improvements in leprosy (Hansen's disease) treatment and outlook for
patients since the introduction of multidrug therapy (MDT) 3 decades ago, the global …

This paper discusses four dimensions of the capitalist state's role in economic and social
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In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of
migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and …

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex
interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and …

Local governments do not stand alone— they find themselves in new relationships not only
with state and federal government, but often with a widening spectrum of other public and …

Why do we compare nations? How do we compare nations? What are the'big issues' in
comparative politics? Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics provides students with the …

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most
accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review …

That there is a" digital divide"—which falls between those who have and can afford the latest
in technological tools and those who have neither in our society—is indisputable. Virtual …

abstract This article examines the specific mechanisms that have allowed global financial
markets to penetrate deeply into the activities of US cities. A flood of yield-seeking capital …