Social Policy category: 9249 books
Assessing the Open Method of Coordination
Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national influence of the Open Method of Coordination in Social Inclusion and Social Protection (pensions and health/long-term care), at the European Union level and in ten EU Member States.
School Funding and Student Achievement
Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan,...
Population Change in the United States
Socioeconomic Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This new volume maps the complex interplay of demographic and socioeconomic changes in the United States, where rapid aging and ethnic diversification are merely the most salient of the many issues with major long-term implications. Drawing on The United States Census Bureau’s post-2010 detailed...
by Mark Robert Rank
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty. One Nation, Underprivileged unravels this disturbing paradox by offering a unique and radically different understanding of American poverty. It debunks many of our most common myths about the poor, while at the...
Social Quality
From Theory to Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This collection sets out the latest research on the concept of 'social quality', developing its theoretical foundations and applying it to pressing policy issues such as the future of the European Union and sustainable global development.
Europe: One Continent, Different Worlds
Population Scenarios for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
On the threshold of a new century the organisers of the European Population Conference 1999 (EPC99) in The Hague decided not only to highlight the population trends that Europe is facing today but also the changes in the 21 st century that are set to shape the future of Europe. They decided to focus...
Quality of Secondary Education in India
Concepts, Indicators, and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book provides useful insights into quality issues in secondary education in India and addresses the important questions of why there is need to improve the quality of education; how one can measure the quality of education; and the ways to improve quality. The analysis in this book is conceptually...
by Brijesh C. Purohit
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,. Further, it discusses various measures for defining inequity in each of these aspects, and employs different indices for...
Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America
Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The...
Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief
Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional function of static state power, it is here revealed that asylum decisions at borders respond to a complex cultural...
CAPITALISMO, APOLOGIA DA “VITA ACTIVA” E DANO EXISTENCIAL
Dissertação de Mestrado - Coleção "Filósofos do nosso tempo"
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 9, 2017
(a5, 114 páginas)
“A vida sem o exercício do pensar é não somente pobreza de espírito, uma vez que espírito em filosofia significa ideia, mas também escravidão...".
Sócrates dizia que "o ser que somente trabalha, come, bebe, faz sexo e dorme não é um homem, mas um escravo...
Divorce, Families and Emotion Work
'Only Death Will Make Us Part'
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
“This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce.” —Arlie Hochschild, University of California, USA
“This rich, evidence-informed narrative provides a frank, ‘up close and personal’ portrait of the aftermath of...
by D. C. Zook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
One of the unfortunate by-products of our current approach to diversity has been the creation of an enclave society. Since the benefits of diversity are apportioned by group identity, diversity encourages us to find our own group and then "stick with our own kind." The result is inter-group...
Institutionalization of State Policy
Evolving Urban Housing Reforms in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Using fresh evidence and a novel methodological framework, this book sheds light on how institutions have driven economic reform in China's urban housing sector. The book systematically analyzes the developmental role of the state in China, with rich empirical evidence to show how decentralization...