Social Policy category: 9249 books
Health Divided
Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The United States’ health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine. Seeking to explain how this division came to be, what alternative paths might have been taken, and how this shapes the contemporary landscape, Daniel Sledge offers...
The Aging Networks, 8th Edition
A Guide to Programs and Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
"The eighth edition of Aging Networks is particularly well-suited for use in the classroom, and can be used or adapted for a wide variety of disciplines including gerontology, social work, public health, public administration, nursing and other health professions... This small volume is not only...
by Nick Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and...
Innovation, Complexity and Policy
Contributions from 30 years of innovation policy research in Austria
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book brings together a set of contributions that show the breadth and depth of the scientific work of Josef Fröhlich and his influence on Austrian research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy. It is edited in honour of the occasion of his retirement as Head of Innovation Systems Department...
Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below
Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. It highlights that welfare states are hard pressed to reform in order to cope with ongoing socio-economic and demographic challenges....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos. It also looks at the changing demographics in Mexico and its impact on the health and financial well-being of aging Mexicans and Mexican Americans....
Injustice (revised edition)
Why social inequality still persists
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more...
Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition
Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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Back to the Present: Rethinking Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift
The question of “risk” and “risk assessment” in child welfare are explored in chapter 10. Callahan and Swift explain the managerial, medical, and legal influences that...
Building a Collaborative Advantage
Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Homelessness is not a historical accident. We know that it is the disastrous outcome of policy decisions made over time and at several levels of government. Yet conventional theories in political science and public administration fail to explain why some approaches have worked while others have failed.
Drawing...
What Is "Your" Race?
The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different "race"...
by M. Palley
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In a social and political environment that has become more accepting of gender equity, women's health issues have emerged in the forefront of the social policy agenda of the United States. The organized women's movement has been successful in many of its endeavors to improve opportunities for women...
Comparative Policy Studies
Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries.
Investing in Children
Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book provides the most current thinking on effective interventions in the lives of criminal offenders. Original articles by leading criminologists provide in-depth analyses of “turning points” in the desistance process experienced by criminal offenders. An understanding of the sources of...