Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Malcolm Torry
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen’s income (also known as a basic income). It tests for two different kinds of financial feasibility as well as for psychological, behavioral, administrative, and political viability, and then...
Charity Law and Social Inclusion
An International Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity law framework and the needs of the socially marginalized in some leading common law nations: the US, England and Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
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Recreational Drug Consumption
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Recreational drug policies and regulations are complex issues with many dimensions. This book attempts to answer several questions raised in current drug policy debates. Developing cost-effective drug programs and policies require a sound knowledge of drug users and their characteristics and the relationship...
The Reform of Health Care
Shaping, Adapting and Resisting Policy Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare policy and practice. This is an international text bringing together contributions from around the globe and covers a wide range of different discussions in relation to the policy/practice gap.
The Library and the Workshop
Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism. In particular, it challenges the idea that social democracy has gone "neoliberal," arguing that so-called Third Way policies seem to have brought out new aspects of a thoroughgoing social...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book examines potential economic opportunities that countries can experience when fertility rates fall and the average life expectancy of the working age population increases. It presents detailed demographic and economic analysis of middle-income countries throughout the world in order to show...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The main object of this book is to explain some of the mechanisms of integration and secession among regions from the point of view of game theory. To attain this goal, the incentives of regions in a country to unite or to secede and the conditions in the way for the member countries of a federation...
Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia
Trends, Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It maps governance challenges and analyzes current trends from the perspectives of democracy, public policy, and public institutions. Regional public administration and governance systems have undergone...
by Andrea Bonomi Savignon, Luca Gnan, Alessandro Hinna
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The complex and ever-evolving relationship between the public sector and civil society at large is high on the policy and political agenda for the transformation of administrative and socio-economic systems in most developed countries. In this context, citizen associations, private businesses and...
Advising in austerity
Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK, presenting a rare and rich view of the world of advice...
Housing Economics
A Historical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book discusses Japanese conceptions of power and presents a complex, nuanced look at how power operates in society and in politics. It rejects stereotypes that describe Japanese citizens as passive and apolitical, cemented into a vertically structured, group-oriented society and shows how citizens...
Appalachian Legacy
Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunities, improved human capital,...
High Time
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Canada has become the first G7 country to legalize cannabis, and the world is watching. The primary concern facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” is whether it can be done without making the situation...