Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices introduces readers to the theory
and practice of crime prevention. Now in its third edition, this book argues for a combination …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

Comparative Federalism: A Systematic Inquiry, Second Edition is a uniquely
comprehensive, analytic, and genuinely comparative introduction to the principles and …

This study describes the level of government commitment in preventing domestic violence
(DV) toward Indigenous women in countries of the Global North. Seventy-two government …

This paper addresses two related puzzles. The first puzzle is that parts of the environmental
federalism literature suggest that federal states are ill-equipped to solve nation-wide or …

After a Coalition electoral victory in 2013, the Australian Office for Women was returned from
the periphery to the centre of government. This was contrary to the expectation that women's …

This article shows that the institutional design of Argentine federalism allows for differences
in the protective scope of the provincial domestic violence laws. It holds that the broad …

The present paper analyses and compares how federalism in Austria and Switzerland
affected climate change mitigation in the fully decentralized building sectors of the two …

A central puzzle in federalism research is that federal arrangements have been associated
with a variety of policy effects, ranging from emulation of policy innovations among sub …

The US federal government often devolves administrative processes and decision making to
state and local governments. Prior studies have found that the success of decentralization …