Social Policy category: 9249 books
Blazing the Neoliberal Trail
Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to remake...
by Irina Mukhina
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution...
by D. J. Summers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Despite the unique culture surrounding cannabis, this new industry follows the same economic principles as does any other agricultural product—that is, it would if the federal government allowed it to. Four distinct challenges prevent the cannabis industry from becoming fully legal and federally...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
An Agenda for the Nation
What are the biggest issues facing the country as Donald Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress take office?
Any new administration faces a myriad of issues and problems it must take on as it ascends to power. In this volume, Brookings scholars and others offer...
Jailed for Possession
Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
As rates of illegal drug use increase, the debates over drug policy heat up. While some believe penalties should be harsher, others advocate complete decriminalisation. Certainly, debate over the 'war on drugs' is not new. In the early 1920s, as the drive for Chinese Exclusion gathered steam, Canadians...
Civil Society Organizations, Unemployment, and Precarity in Europe
Between Service and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy.
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
by Rofiah Ololade Sarumi, Ann Strode
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This brief reference surveys the national policy of three representative African countries on the legal guardianship of children who are without parents or families. Focusing on the widely varying legal systems of Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, and Uganda, the authors highlight guardianship as emblematic...
Gender and HIV in South Africa
Advancing Women’s Health and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to investigate...
Beyond Marriage
Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community. With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the struggles for LGBT rights in the United...
Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific
Conference Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This publication presents highlights of a conference that gathered leading academics, policymakers, and international organizations to discuss the theory, practice, and policy considerations of regional public goods. Jointly organized by the Asian Development Bank Economic Research and Regional Cooperation...
Homeless Lives in American Cities
Interrogating Myth and Locating Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes.
Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity
Institutional Reforms and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical achievements, social inequalities, and responsiveness to patients and workers.
Systemic Design
Theory, Methods, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering. There are significant societal forces and organizational demands impelling...