Social Policy category: 9249 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook is the first of its kind to fully explore the interconnections between social justice and education for citizenship on an international scale.
Various educational policies and practices are predicated on notions of social justice, yet each of...
Double Bubble
Inside Britain's Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Double Bubble is the third book of 'The Chemsex Trilogy', and details what can happen to you after a period of continuous Chem fuelled sex parties, when you finally find yourself to the windward of the law. Prison in any case is a frightening experience, but for a gay man it's terrifying. This book...
After Adoption
Direct Contact and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements...
by David Chan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
It is clear that public trust plays a critical role in developing a vibrant economy and a strong society. A reasonably high level of public trust will enable the public, the Government, and the various organisations and groups in the different sectors in Singapore to work together to build a cohesive...
When Cultural Policies Change
Comparing Mexico and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
How can change in cultural Policy be explained? Through a comparative and historical analysis, this research sheds new light on the emergence, institutionalization and transformation of the cultural policies of two major Latin American countries: Mexico and Argentina.
Elodie Bordat-Chauvin’s investigation...
Israel’s Invisible Negev Bedouin
Issues of Land and Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population. In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to settlements in Siyag. The explicit...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On 21-22 April 2010, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized a social protection conference in Manila. Interest in social protection has been growing since the global financial crisis heightened awareness of the many millions of people in Asia and the Pacific who live in poverty or vulnerable situations....
Funding Inclusive Education
The Economic Realities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2003.Funding for pupils with special educational needs has created resource management difficulties for schools and budgetary control problems for LEAs. Special educational needs is a frequent area of LEA overspending. These issues are particularly important as the...
by Ochnavi Atatoj
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Common Contents
I. MANIFESTO
[ Here is explained what this party means, why it is so important and unique, which are the basic requirements of its policy, in economic and social aspects, and why it is a must for contemporary decaying capitalist society. ]
0. Introduction
Exploitation
Money
Allowances...
Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society
Rights, Belonging, Intimate Life and Spatiality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their...
Tax and Benefit Policies in the Enlarged Europe
Assessing the Impact with Microsimulation Models
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book offers the first systematic assessment of income redistribution in Eastern Europe, within a comparative European perspective, and it demonstrates the future research potential of microsimulation techniques in this region. The book's chapters are based on a unique instrument -- EUROMOD: the...
A World of Three Zeros
The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet
Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating...
Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe
An Economic and Social Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.
Variations of the Welfare State
Great Britain, Sweden, France and Germany Between Capitalism and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In the burgeoning literature on welfare regimes and typologies, this comparative study offers a stimulating new perspective. Kaufmann, the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany, emphasizes norms, culture and history, in contrast to political economy approaches. Comparing Britain, Sweden,...