Social Policy category: 9249 books
Kids First
Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
It may "take a village to raise a child," but most American families are struggling, with diminishing social support, to do the job on their own. While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on...
The H-Spot
The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it.
For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done,...
Uneasy Partners
Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value...
American Politics, Then & Now
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
James Q. Wilson is one of America's preeminent public policy scholars. For decades, he has analyzed the changing political and cultural landscape with clarity and honesty, bringing his wisdom to bear on all facets of American government and society. This is a collection of fifteen of Wilson's most...
Simulation Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
Risk Need Responsivity (RNR) Modeling for the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The use of simulation modeling in criminal justice dates back to the 1970s. Early models were developed to capture the realities of the criminal justice system, to identify what changes were needed, and how small changes would affect the overall picture. Significant time and effort were devoted...
Intersectionality and Politics
Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Cutting-edge research on the intersection of race, gender, and politics
Traditionally, there has been a significant lack of empirical attention given to the ways in which race/ethnicity, gender, and political representation overlap. Intersectionality and Politics is the groundbreaking collection...
The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics
The Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’, and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism, protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins,...
The 2012 French Presidential Elections
The Inevitable Alternation
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book argues that a combination of economic downturn, policy choices and personal unpopularity meant that the Right-wing incumbent faced an almost impossible task in holding onto power for another five years.
Reclaiming the American Dream
Proven Solutions for Creating Economic Opportunity for All
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Unlocking the American Dream
At a time when deep divisions headline the national discourse on equality, Reclaiming the American Dream: Proven Solutions for Creating Economic Opportunity for All uses real-world examples to illustrate how America can evolve to include everyone in its promise...
A Discussion on Chinese Road of NGOs
Reform and Co-governance by Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book reflects the author’s views on NGO development in China and includes recent papers, reviews, and policy suggestions he has written. This collection introduces the current state of research on NGOs and their development in China to an English-speaking audience, allowing them to understand China’s social reforms, which center on NGOs.
Population Dynamics in Muslim Countries
Assembling the Jigsaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The book discusses the demographic changes in Muslim countries. It thereby focuses on topics such as the demographic dividend and the demographic transition, labour market challenges, health care, universal education and gender issues. These challenges are addressed at a country level and include...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth. This book develops a poverty profile for India in view of the ongoing national and global efforts toward ensuring inclusive growth and bringing poverty levels down. This poverty profile will enable...
Modern Slavery
The Margins of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.
by G. Kolodko
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind. Focusing not only on what happens in the economic sphere but also on cultural, social, political, demographic, technological, and ecological processes. It employs a holistic approach to answer fundamental questions about the course of the future.