Social Policy category: 9249 books
Caring for Children
Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers. The contributors explore the complex issues surrounding caring for children,...
Interrogating the Theory and Practice of Communication for Social Change
The Basis For a Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A new addition to the Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change series, this book sets the stage for subsequent books by identifying and analysing the current gaps in the field. It critically reviews the theory, practice and strategies of Communication for Social Change in relation to occurring structures, policies and discourses.
Fertile Matters
The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted as a major social problem for the United States. Due to fear-fueled news reports and public perceptions about the changing composition of the nation's...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times.
Health, Risk...
by David Chan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
When policymakers, communities or advocates make decisions and take actions, they do so with the purpose of achieving some desired goal. But sometimes, unintended consequences occur. These are outcomes that are not the ones intended by the purposeful decision or action.
Unintended consequences...
Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro
Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview...
Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors
The New Face of Young Adulthood in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America* *is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how emerging adulthood impacts the lives and behaviors of young people. Salvatore provides an insightful examination of the...
Deadly Spin
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information...
From Here to Prosperity
An Agenda for Progressive Prosperity based on an inequality-busting strategy of Income for me, wealth for we
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Are you angered by the high level of inequality but frustrated about what to do? From Here to Prosperity tells you how we can resolve this together. It is not another lengthy, learned work on the extent of the problem, it is about how to fix it, build a sustainable economy and bring greater social...
by David L. Boren
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A powerful wake-up call to all Americans
With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. A powerful wake-up call to Americans, A...
Welfare Beyond the Welfare State
The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare...
by Michelle Norris
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal welfare regime which forces households to rely mainly on the market to maintain...
by Zephyros Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
ObamaCare is a complex law that will affect every single American.
Everyone has an opinion about ObamaCare, but few people actually understand how the Affordable Care Act works. ObamaCare Simplified navigates you through the intricacies of the health care law and explains...
by Jim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.
Operating...