Social Policy category: 9249 books
Citizens By Degree
Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of socioeconomic status and political engagement....
Happiness Around the World
The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
This IEG evaluation, requested by the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors, represents the first independent evaluation of the PSIA experience. The evaluation finds that:• The PSIA approach has appropriately emphasized the importance of assessing the distributional impact of policy actions, understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistribution. It addresses the role of international actors in shaping social policy and discusses the problems and possibilities of new alliances for global social justice.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, “illegal” migrants, and convicted criminals. Scholars have analyzed this development primarily through the lens of immigration...
by Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Which underlying problems pose the greatest threat to British society in the 21st century? A hundred years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty, alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading...
China's Urban Health Care Reform
From State Protection to Individual Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide...
Mothers of the Municipality
Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Highlighting women's activism in Halifax after the Second World War, Mothers of the Municipality is a tightly focused collection of essays on social policy affecting women. The contributors – feminist scholars in history, social work, and nursing – examine women's experiences and activism, including...
Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America
A Space for Social Citizenship?
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health. They analyse the impact of regional organizations on social citizenship following political struggle and contestation.
Irish Insanity
1800–2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and provided...
Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression
Strategies for Challenging the Rise of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression provides a much-needed engagement with questions of justice and reform within the current phase of global capitalism, one that is marked not only by significant social inequality, but also political bifurcation. It offers guidance on progressive strategies...
by Bryan Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In the last decade Ireland’s immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. Now in the midst of an economic crisis the integration of immigrants has become a topical issue. Drawing extensively on demographic data and research on immigrant lives, immigrant participation in Irish politics and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social problems and those who experience them. Identities of 'risky' or 'safe', 'responsible' or 'irresponsible' are being increasingly applied, not only to everyday life but also to professional practice.
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering
History and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what measures...