Social Policy category: 9249 books
European Youth Labour Markets
Problems and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This timely analysis examines the complex state of youth unemployment across Europe and offers cogent policy suggestions for addressing this longstanding societal problem. The findings reveal numerous national and regional factors affecting youth joblessness—not only market and economic challenges,...
Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society
A New Culture War for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resources of a finite planet at the top 1% have made the world an inhospitable place to many families. Parents are left alone to deal with the big societal...
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis
Reasoning about Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book describes argumentative tools and strategies that can be used to guide policy decisions under conditions of great uncertainty. Contributing authors explore methods from philosophical analysis and in particular argumentation analysis, showing how it can be used to systematize discussions...
Gender and Family in European Economic Policy
Developments in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000. Equal pay policies, parental leave reforms, corporate quotas and electoral quotas have raised pressing questions about the effectiveness in promoting equal participation, as...
Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe
The ‘Catching Up’ -- A Myth or a Strategy?
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe explores the way in which social sciences, in comparison with other sciences in Europe, have been divided by the political orders of West and East. As part of the field of science policies in Europe, this book contributes to the...
The Italian welfare state in a European perspective
A comparative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is a need to understand the Italian welfare state, but as yet it has received little academic research attention. The Italian Welfare State in a European Perspective is the first book to explore the evolution of Italy's welfare state in the decades since the ‘Trente Glorieuses’ (1945–75)....
Citizens in Europe
Civic Activism and the Community Democratic Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject. This lack of knowledge nourishes the citizens’ detachment from the European Union and itself emerged in well known cases such as the French and Dutch referenda on the Constitutional...
Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa
Governance Below the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire. Over half of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and about a quarter are undernourished. If factors such as armed conflicts in the region, the impact of climate change, or the widespread presence...
Crime, Victims and Policy
International Contexts, Local Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This book provides critically examines how recent international developments in victims theory and policy are experienced within specific local contexts. The chapters approach key criminological issues including the experience of criminal justice agencies, policy formulation, the construction of victim identities and the 'discovery' of new victims.
Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy
Comparative Politics of Long-Term Care in Advanced Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them. This book accounts for the variations in elderly care policy by combining statistical analysis with historical case studies of Sweden, Japan and the USA.
Creating Target Publics for Welfare Policies
A Comparative and Multi-level Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics. It examines how these populations are identified and constructed by policy making. The contributors apply the classic theoretical question about who gets what, when, and how, but also suggest the revisiting of...
On Global Aging
Old-Age Income Systems in the EU and Other Major Parts of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nearly all countries in the world are experiencing an aging of their populations due to declining fertility rates and rising longevity. Aging has been the subject of much discussion in the last decade, often expressed in alarmist language. On Global Aging presents a more optimistic look on the effects...
The squeezed middle
The pressure on ordinary workers in America and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
As wages stagnate but living costs keep rising, the pressure on working people grows more intense. The issue of living standards has become one of the most urgent challenges for politicians in both Britain and America. 'The squeezed middle' brings together experts from both sides of the Atlantic to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.