Social Policy category: 9249 books
Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
Sweden and Poland Compared
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father’s role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon grounded in cultural patterns...
The Quest for Drug Control
Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Between 1960 and 1980 various administrations attempted to deal with a rising tide of illicit drug use that was unprecedented in U.S. history. This valuable book provides a close look at the politics and bureaucracy of drug control policy during those years, showing how they changed during the presidencies...
by el-Sayed el-Aswad
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region. It focuses on both internal / local and external / global drivers impacting their well-being particularly in the domains of economy, health, and education. Additionally, it presents...
Governing diversity
Migrant Integration and Multiculturalism in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
During the 2000s, the European Union has witnessed a significant change in terms of integration policies for immigrants.
This book intends to address the relationship between, on the one hand, cultural diversity resulting from migration, and, on the other hand, social cohesion and social justice...
Selfish Generations?
The Ageing of New Zealand’s Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Our present welfare state has little good reason to survive much longer, and we will have to find a new basis for its continued existence.’ So writes David Thomson as he offers an unflinching perspective on how different generations have fared under the social welfare policies of governments since...
Entrepreneurial and Innovative Practices in Public Institutions
A Quality of Life Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This volume discusses the importance of adopting entrepreneurial and innovation practices in the public sector, as mechanisms for detecting, dealing with and including citizens’ social needs, with a reflection on positive determination of their quality of life. It focuses on critical reflection...
Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income
The desirability and implementation of an unconditional income
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
In the five years since Money for Everyone was published the idea of a Citizen’s Basic Income has rocketed in interest to an idea whose time has come. In moving the debate on from the desirability of a basic income this fully updated and revised edition now includes comprehensive discussions on...
Small Voluntary Organisations in the 'Age of Austerity'
Funding Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
This book analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK. Using Bourdieu’s later work on state power, the author argues that these competitions for grants, loans and contracts are neoliberal funding ‘games’. Such games tempt grassroots...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all European welfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-based studies and comparative chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial crisis, 2) demographic change, and 3) the balance between...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Social protection is now considered a development milestone and an important tool in combating poverty. Interventions can include, for example, health insurance, public works programs, guaranteed employment schemes, or cash transfers targeting vulnerable populations groups.
This innovative...
Ferraris for all
In defence of economic progress
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed 'growth scepticism'. Prosperity is accused of encourage greed, damaging the environment, causing unhappiness and widening social inequalities. Ferraris...
Labor Markets and Social Security
Issues and Policy Options in the U.S. and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
John T. Addison and Paul J. J. Welfens Because inflation seems moribund in OECD countries, stubborn unemployment became the top policy priority of the 1990s. Unemployment has increased in many countries, reaching critical levels for unskilled and young workers in most continental EU countries. Europe's...
Labor and Employment Relations in a Globalized World
New Perspectives on Work, Social Policy and Labor Market Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization. It describes contemporary developments and ways in which labor relations systems are evolving around the world and in Turkey. Authors combine the latest information with in-depth insights on a variety...
The Age of the Inquiry
Learning and Blaming in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did...