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Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia
Research and Policy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia. The scope of the chapters goes beyond the impact of current financial crisis to include the effect of economic deprivation families in Asia...
The Economics of Excess
Addiction, Indulgence, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Economics of Excess discusses both standard and behavioral economics as they apply to addiction, indulgence, and social policy. Chapter One provides a thorough discussion of economic models of addiction. The model developed in most detail takes into account both standard and behavioral approaches....
Marginalised Mothers
Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes...
Theorising Childhood
Citizenship, Rights and Participation
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure debates...
Ageing in Australia
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This stimulating volume examines the many faces of Australia’s ageing population, the social and health issues they contend with, and the steps being taken—and many that should be taken—to help ensure a more positive and productive later life. Individual and societal ageing are conceptualized...
Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery
Towards a Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Despite growing popular and policy interest in ‘new’ slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million ‘modern slaves’, interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on ‘modern slavery’.
This edited...
Broken benefits
What's gone wrong with welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn’t working, and without a change in direction, it will be even less fair in the future. Drawing on original...
Transnational Environmental Policy
Reconstructing Ozone
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving capacities...
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
The Continuing Evolution of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship, Gunnar Almgren argues that the ACA's primary significance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy.
by Shea K. Robison
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. This book presents one of the first detailed examinations of the political implications of epigenetics.
• Focuses on the latest developments in epigenetics, a subject...
Advancing Women in Science
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent...
Soulful Corporations
A Values-Based Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximising shareholder wealth to optimising stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters. This book makes a distinct contribution...
Socialism and Foreign Policy
Theory and Practice in Britain to 1931
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is intended as a contribution to the study of the relation of political ideas and governmental policies. It seeks to examine and evaluate the British Labour Party's early efforts to apply socialist theories to foreign policy actions. Since I have focused on these ideas and events, I have...