Social Policy category: 9249 books
European Governance and Democracy
Power and Protest in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union and its member states. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet analyze the influence of supranational governance on democratization through...
Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China
100 Years after the Xinhai Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China. The authors examine three key areas of domestic change...
Health Action Zones
Partnerships for Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. Written by members of the team undertaking the national evaluation of HAZ, this book examines the initiative’s development...
'An Impartial Umpire'
Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding...
Compassion
A Global History of Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present. Along the way, Alvin Finkel assesses the impacts of economic developments, colonialism, political arrangements, gender, race, and social class...
Wealth and the wealthy
Exploring and tackling inequalities between rich and poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap. Aimed at a broad social science and public readership, this book draws on new data on wealth to answer the following key questions: What is wealth? Who has got it? Where might we...
Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what...
After '08
Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? After ’08 examines how global institutions,...
New philanthropy and social justice
Debating the conceptual and policy discourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is a broad consensus that traditional philanthropy has the potential to be transformative and address inequalities and injustices, as well as provide relief to the poor. Over the last two decades individual capitalists and private corporations have become increasingly involved in philanthropy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women’s care responsibilities. The book studies the complex combination of and the relationships between local political processes, policies, institutions,...
by Christine Everingham
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. Social welfare is the focus of much discussion and there is a broad spectrum of political opinion that agrees on the need for urgent reform. The literature informing these policy debates draws on a diversity of theoretical traditions and discourses concerned...
Refugee Children
Towards the Next Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The last twenty years have seen unprecedented numbers of refugee children entering Western countries. Many of these children will have experienced the atrocities of war and issues concerning their care and treatment are high on the agenda of research bodies, policy makers and service providers.
Refugee...