Social Policy category: 9249 books
Schooling for Life
Community Education and Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, schools and communities find themselves struggling with concerns of youth violence, child poverty, and race relations in an economy mired in recession. In Schooling for Life, esteemed community educator Dale E. Shuttleworth brings his rich experiences...
Prison Break
Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
American conservatism rose hand-in-hand with the growth of mass incarceration. For decades, conservatives deployed "tough on crime" rhetoric to attack liberals as out-of-touch elitists who coddled criminals while the nation spiraled toward disorder. As a result, conservatives have been the motive...
Performing Policy
How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author shows how, over the span of 20 years, the USA's cultural policy sector radically redefined US artists' practices without cohesively articulating the expectations of artists' new role.
A New Reality
Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future provides a startling, fresh new message of understanding, perspective and hope for today’s tense, rapid-fire, kaleidoscopically changing world.
A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future provides a startling, fresh new message...
In Pursuit of Equity
Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social...
by Malcolm W. Klein, Cheryl L. Maxson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is a crucial update and critical examination...
by Vic George, Paul Wilding
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies. It documents the effects of globalization on economic growth, income distribution, poverty, education, health, social care and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's...
Immigration Policy in Europe
The Politics of Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
Previously published as a special issue of West European Politics, this edited volume evaluates the extent to which a policy gap between inputs and outcomes exists with regard to immigration control. In exploring an expanded migration policy-field which includes the extreme right, the media and actors, this book goes beyond traditional analyses tha
by Global Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
This joint publication from Global Policy and the Observer Research Foundation provides information on key urban challenges facing India, and directions the country could take to absorb and manage future growth. Five aspects responsible for achieving sustainable urbanisation are reviewed: Urban population...
Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America
Promise and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
This book is a follow-up volume to Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas: Policy Innovation for Same-Sex Relationships published by Lexington Books in 2010. It sheds light on regional, national, and individual-level factors that have led to major developments for same-sex relationship equality in Latin...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
with foreword by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA
This book critiques U.S. public policy about communication and offers guidelines to improve public safety and create strong democratic communities. The lack of effective emergency...
Claiming India from Below
Activism and democratic transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Going beyond electoral politics and government, this volume broadens the scope of the functioning of democracy in India, and explores citizens’ role in the implementation of public policy. It looks at the ways in which extra-parliamentary power monitoring devices such as public institutions, citizens’...
Is Anyone Listening?
Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Domestic violence is in the public eye as never before, but how often are abused women consulted or involved in the new services and policies? This book investigates, and reveals that the voices of survivors of domestic violence are often simply not heard; silenced, the women themselves become invisible.
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