Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Madhusudan Subedi
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book focuses on health, healing and health care in Nepal. It presents an intriguing picture: the interplay between the natural processes that cause ill health or diseases and the socio-cultural processes through which people try to understand and cope with them. The work places medical tradition,...
Imprisoning Communities
How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities....
Culture and the Politics of Welfare
Exploring Societal Values and Social Choices
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This text offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states. It suggests new ways in which cross-national differences in culture might be measured and, using a range of approaches, utilizes these measures to explore the role culture plays in shaping differences in social policy frameworks across high income countries.
Poor Participation
Fighting the Wars on Poverty and Impoverished Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is that decisions made about those living in poverty or near-poverty are illegitimate, inadvisable, and non-responsive to the needs and interests of the poor...
The State and Healthcare
Comparing OECD Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the USA, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of healthcare systems.
Food Security in Australia
Challenges and Prospects for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures within the food system itself. Although Australia...
Active Ageing in the European Union
Policy Convergence and Divergence
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles, early retirement and incentives for deferral.
Global Politics of Health Reform in Africa
Performance, Participation, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding modalities and participation are used to shape health reform in African countries as well as the role of African actors, global policy elites and international donors within these processes.
Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa
A Multi-faceted Economic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Using a multidimensional approach, the authors hope to provide a broad view of poverty and a thorough account of the variables that contribute to it. As opposed to traditional studies of poverty, which focus...
Securing Pension Provision
The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries.
International Perspectives
Integration and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The international trend towards migration is growing rapidly and becoming increasingly complex. As the first-wave generation of migrants ages, their children and even grandchildren are reaching adulthood having spent their entire lives in the countries their families chose long ago. International...
Long-Term Care in Europe
Improving Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Drawing on research across a wide range of European countries, this book analyzes the key issues at stake in developing long-term care systems for older people in Europe with a focus on progression and improvement for policy and practice.
Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad
Next Generation Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the modern era, political leaders and scholars have declared the rule of law to be essential to democracy, a necessity for economic growth, and a crucial tool in the fight for security at home and stability abroad. The United States has spent billions attempting to catalyze rule-of-law improvements...
Globalization and Welfare Restructuring in China
The Authoritarianism That Listens?
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In the past few decades, the change in China’s welfare system has been characterised by a balanced distribution of benefits across social sectors and the institutionalization of welfare redistribution. This process has occurred without significant political change that would empower politically...