Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Lance T Izumi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing in addition to huge spending commitments...
Considering Marijuana Legalization
Insights for Vermont and Other Jurisdictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Marijuana legalization is a controversial and multifaceted issue that is now the subject of serious debate. In May 2014, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill requiring the Secretary of Administration to produce a report about various consequences of legalizing marijuana. This resulting report...
Islamistische Drehscheibe Schweiz
Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Moscheen
Language: German
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Die Angst vor Terroranschlägen greift um sich und beginnt das Leben vieler Menschen zu dominieren. Dennoch versäumt
es die Politik, den Organisationen und Financiers, die den Nährboden zur Radikalisierung junger Muslime bereiten, das Handwerk zu legen. Saïda Keller-Messahli befasst sich seit Jahren...
Discovering the Cause and the Cure for America’S Health Care Crisis
A Physician’S Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The health care system remains in crisis, and its hurting the overall economy. Join an insider as he examines the problem and offers solutions.
Everyone knows that there are severe challenges when it comes to health care delivery and financing these days. Even so, not many people are offering...
Security, Citizenship and Human Rights
Shared Values in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Security, Citizenship and Human Rights examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, 'equalities' and the shifting discourses of 'shared values' and human rights in contemporary Britain. The book argues that British citizenship and human rights policy is being remade and remoulded...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book explains the background to and effect of the law passed by the National Assembly of Wales, giving general effect to the UNCRC in the exercise of governmental powers, both in terms of furtherance of children’s rights in Wales and in terms of its implications for multi-level governance spanning...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it...
The Public Option
How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
A solution to inequalities—in health care, retirement, education, recreation, communication—is as close as the public library, post office, community pool, or elementary school. The Public Option shows that opportunities to develop reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options are all around us.
Endangering Prosperity
A Global View of the American School
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. In Endangering Prosperity, a trio of experts on international...
Serving Students Who Are Homeless
A Resource Guide for Schools, Districts, and Educational Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Schools and districts are seeing unprecedented numbers of students and families living without residential stability. Although the McKinney-Vento Act has been around for over two decades, many district- and site-level practitioners have a difficult time interpreting and implementing the Act’s mandates...
Europe Managing the Crisis
The politics of fiscal consolidation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Studies of the recent financial crisis have been largely dominated by economists, but the similarities and differences between European countries' response reflect both economic and political perspectives which have resulted in considerable differences in their decisions.
Drawing on uniquely...
Private Intergenerational Transfers and Population Aging
The German Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the forthcoming decades the industrialized countries will experience a demographic transition that is unprecedented in history. While the transition's impact on public pension schemes has extensively been examined, its implication for private intergenerational transfers has gone almost unnoticed...
by M. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The focus of this book is on how community comes to influence political behaviour; it takes an interdisciplinary approach blending the fields of community psychology, sociology, and political science.
Public Sector Employment Regimes
Transformations of the State as an Employer
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'model' employer.