Recent national reports suggest that nearly 1,000,000 families with children experience homelessness and that this number is rising (National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009; U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2010; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2011). Families experiencing homelessness are disproportionately more likely to have experienced economic, health, and social risk fact...

This paper describes how municipalities in the state of Ceará (Brazil) were encouraged to compete to obtain a Municipal Seal of Approval, based on their performance in meeting children's needs and rights. It describes how the programme was implemented, including the criteria used to judge performance, the communication strategy to encourage municipal participation and the measures taken to avoi...

This paper provides an overview of European Healthy Cities Network (EHCN) organized by the WHO Regional Office Europe. The focus is on the third of five phases covering the period 1998-2002. Fifty-six cities were members of the WHO-EHCN and over 1000 European cities were members of national networks. Association with WHO has given municipalities legitimacy to move into a domain often associated...

The study assessed leaders' perceptions of adolescent alcohol use as a public health issue in 28 small communities in northern Minnesota, as part of formative evaluation for a community-based intervention to reduce adolescent alcohol access and consumption. One hundred and eighteen leaders from five key community sectors were interviewed about their perceptions of social, health and alcohol-rel...

This essay analyses the consolidation of authoritarian rule in Hungary by focusing attention on ruling party’s workfare programme, which has become cornerstone rural poverty governance. It is argued, basis ethnographic research carried out author and secondary literature, that successfully tamed angry politics born dislocations caused neoliberal restructuring. consolidated post-peasant hegemoni...

How did Belgian and Dutch mayors experience their own role that of local government during the first few months COVID-19 outbreak? This question was addressed by drawing on three analytical perspectives (functional, territorial, political) systems using a qualitative case study design. Interestingly, position leeway not differ much crisis months. The type virus scope outbreak necessitated centr...

The article analyzes the intergovernmental relations developed during last 30 years, in context of an apparent unitary and decentralized State, Peru. analysis was carried out from perspective local governments. research interpretive phenomenological type to account for social imaginary mayors regarding centralism, recentralization, conflicts functions, competencies between government actors. It...