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by Hartley Dean
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the international human rights and human...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Serving African American Children was initiated to present an African American perspective on child welfare issues affecting African American children. The chapters in this volume challenge the child welfare community to ensure that all African American children receive protection, nurturing, and...
The War Between the State and the Family
How Government Divides and Impoverishes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Patricia Morgan's core assumption is that the family is an extremely effective vehicle for raising the welfare of its members. If this is correct it is quite possible that the state can best support the family by doing very little--by not taxing the family heavily and by minimizing the subsidization...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring...
The White Welfare State
The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
The White Welfare State challenges common misconceptions of the development of U.S. welfare policy. Arguing that race has always been central to welfare policy-making in the United States, Deborah Ward breaks new ground by showing that the Mothers' Pensions--the Progressive-Era precursors to modern...
Publics, Politics and Power
Remaking the Public in Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
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"Very stimulating and intellectually exciting. In fact, I think it is one of the best books I have read for a long time." - Professor Carsten Greve, International centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business...
Trust beyond Borders
Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Will immigration undermine the welfare state? Trust beyond Borders draws on public opinion data and case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States to document the influence of immigration and diversity on trust, reciprocity, and public support for welfare programs. Markus M. L. Crepaz demonstrates...
Democracy and the Welfare State
The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together....
Welfare Reform
A Comparative Assessment of the French and U. S. Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens' obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance. Throughout the advanced industrialized nations, welfare reforms incorporate...
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children
Protecting the Vulnerable Under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare. Using case studies from Australia and Canada, it discusses aboriginal child welfare in historical and comparative perspectives and critically examines recent legal reforms and changes in the design,...
International Issues in Social Work and Social Welfare
Selections From CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
What is human trafficking, and where does it occur?
How have other nations exploited children as child soldiers, and what can be done about it?
Have violence and discrimination against women increased or decreased globally over the past decade?
The collection of articles in International Issues...
The Other Welfare
Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon’s daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI)...
Democracy Without Decency
Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues...
Stretched Thin
Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However,...