Michael J Prince: 11 books
Adapting the Beat Poets
Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years,...
Pauvreté invalidante et Citoyenneté habilitante
Un projet du Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Le projet Pauvreté invalidante, citoyenneté habilitante est un projet de recherche quinquennal
(2008-2014) des Alliances de recherche des universités-communautés (ARUC), financé par le
CRSH et dirigé par le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance...
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic...
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship
A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded Community
University Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians with
Disabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-Principal
Researchers....
Struggling for Social Citizenship
Disabled Canadians, Income Security, and Prime Ministerial Eras
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation...
by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical...
Rules and Unruliness
Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and...
Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises
Shifting Budgetary Domains and Temporal Budgeting
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crunch, a pending era of budgetary austerity looms over Canada. Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises provides a roadmap through the difficult fiscal decisions that have characterized contemporary federal politics across four decades. The authors provide...
by Pamela A. Smith, Amy Maida Wadsworth, William McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.
Including a range of personal, academic and clinical...