Social Policy category: 9249 books
Higher Education and Regional Growth
Local Contexts and Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The specialisation, knowledge and innovation brought about by universities often play a key role for the economic success of cities and regions. Yet higher education is also increasingly regarded, in some European countries and regions, as an economic sector in itself, whereby the measure of success...
The Cup, the Gun and the Crescent
Social Welfare and Civil Unrest in Muslim Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This book considers developments in social and welfare policy in Islamic countries from an indigenous and academic perspective, rather than through the hegemonic lens of Western social policy. Contributors from across the Islamic world describe varying responses to the challenges of globalisation, socio-religio-political developments, and often of significant levels of civil conflict.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 economic crisis. Bringing together leading European social policy researchers, it shows that the EU’s responses to the sovereign debt crisis...
Undernutrition and Public Policy in India
Investing in the future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Despite substantial economic growth, India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country, and examines the effectiveness of policies designed...
Global Tobacco Control
Power, Policy, Governance and Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated tobacco in the modern era. It identifies major policy change from the post-war period and uses theories of public policy to help explain the change.
Displaced by Development
Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This compilation is a rare attempt to apply gender analysis to development-induced-displacement and resettlement in the Indian context. It brings together leading scholar-activists, researchers and contributors from people’s movements to critique and draw attention to the injustices perpetrated...
Marriage and Values in Public Policy
Conflicts in the UK, the US and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Marriage is a site of political conflict. It is a controversial issue in the UK, Australia and the US where there is a clash of values between neoliberal governments and diverse groups either strongly opposing or supporting marriage. In the meantime, fewer couples are marrying, while other family...
Care Work
Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition of the current workforce (more than a million in the UK alone), the knowledge and education needed for care work, and the significance...
Red Light Labour
Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but little new insight into sex work.
Red Light Labour addresses Canada’s new legal regime regulating sex work through the analysis of past and present...
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
Embraced By the Welfare State?
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement. Over the past few decades, public procurement has had to evolve conceptually and organizationally in the face of unrelenting budget constraints, government downsizing, public demand for increased transparency in...
Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy
A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Praise for
Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy
A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions
"Bruce Jansson's thoughtful and innovative book will appeal to students in social work, nursing, and public health as well as those working in the health field of practice. The case examples are...
Marijuana is Safer
So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert revisit...
by Caroline Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book examines the topical issue of global drug policy and outlines five steps that could be taken to improve its effectiveness. A public criminology approach is applied to explore not only what could be done, but also why it matters and how it could be achieved. It argues that more effective...