Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Richard Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution. He studied economics at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago and has taught at Cornell, UCLA, Brandeis, and Amherst. He has published over 45 books and written countless articles and op-ed pieces. Paul...
by Vicky White
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Social work is currently undergoing major change in its policies, organization and day-to-day practice and much has been written about the feminist presence in social work. In particular, feminist social work has focused on the role of women social workers in developing distinctive forms of practice,...
Marginality and Crisis
Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa extends the scope and understanding of the effects of globalization and its forces on Africa. With each chapter written by specialists who recognize that the future of Africa is entwined with that of the rest of the world, this...
The Changing Face of the Heartland
Preparing America's Diverse Workforce for Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
As baby boomers retire over the coming decades, one of the big questions facing the American economy is whether the younger, more diverse generation will be prepared to fill the demands of the workforce. In the next Brookings Essay, Jennifer Bradley, founding director of the new Aspen Institute Center...
by Zaijun Yuan
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
In its propaganda, the Chinese Communist Party does not deny the value of “democracy”, but it insists that democracy in China can be only “socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics”. The most essential nature of such “democracy” is that it is under the single-party system and it...
Understanding Child and Family Welfare
Statutory Responses to Children at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
How do workers around the world balance risk and support to ensure that their practice meets the ever-changing needs of children and their families?
Renowned authors Marie Connolly and Kate Morris join forces to explore the frameworks and ideas which have shaped contemporary child and family...
Social Justice Theory and Practice for Social Work
Critical and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book offers a much-needed critical overview of the concept of social justice and its application in professional social work practice. Social justice has a rich conceptual genealogy in critical theory and political philosophy. For students, teachers and social workers concerned with empowerment,...
The Making of Global Health Governance
China and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
A study of governance in the emerging global domain, this book traces the evolution of global public policy making by focusing on four entities: a globalizing sector (health); a global disease (HIV/AIDS); a global organization (the Global Fund); and a major sovereign state (China).
by Catherine E. De Vries
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence. No time in its history has it looked so economically fragile, so unsecure about how to protect its borders, so divided over how to tackle the crisis of legitimacy facing its institutions, and so under assault of Eurosceptic...
TURKEY SINCE 2002
JUSTICE, FREEDODOM, DEMOCRACY
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What philosophy or approaches did the Justice and Development Party implement to achieve such change?
What are some of these recognized economic developments that the critics are calling the “miraculous development”?
How did President Erdogan manage to rid the country from the influence...
The Governor's Solution
How Alaska's Oil Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Oil-Rich Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake.
The Governor's Solution features...
Gender, HIV and Risk
Navigating structural violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi.
Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns
Changing the Rules of Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively successful and can be of great significance for developing countries...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting...