Social Policy category: 9249 books
The Paradox of Gender Equality
How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their...
The Politics and Civics of National Service
Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
This is a major contribution to our understanding of European integration.
It analyzes for the first time, in a highly systematic fashion, European integration as transnational political society formation in a common political space.
Four conceptual chapters discuss different approaches...
Engaging the Other
Public Policy and Western-Muslim Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public discourse, public opinion, and responses to government policy, this volume examines Western-Muslim relations and makes proposals for enhancing Self-Other interaction to improve societal harmony.
Understanding restorative justice
How empathy can close the gap created by crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it separates people, creating a ‘gap’. This...
The Welfare State as Crisis Manager
Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.
Justice and fairness in the city
A multi-disciplinary approach to 'ordinary' cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, ‘fairness’ and ‘justice’ within the city are key concepts in contemporary political debate. This book examines the theory and practice of justice in and of the city through a multi-disciplinary collaboration, which draws...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice ‘at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies currently face the result of globalisation or are...
Scandalous Bodies
Diasporic Literature in English Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship...
Unequal Europe
Social Divisions and Social Cohesion in an Old Continent
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This wide-ranging and comparative text reviews the major theoretical and substantive debates on social inequality in Europe. It provides a valuable dual focus on European society and individual societies while placing Europe in its wider global context.
Demonstrating the continued importance...
Teachers versus the Public
What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A comprehensive exploration of 21st Century school politics, Teachers versus the Public offers the first comparison of the education policy views of both teachers and the public as a whole, and reveals a deep, broad divide between the opinions held by citizens and those who teach in the public schools....
Counter-terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights
Securitizing Difference and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty. Demirsu presents a rich theoretical framework and a novel...
Economic Analysis of Suicide Prevention
Towards Evidence-Based Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and institutional settings...