Social Policy category: 9249 books
Dream and Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Helen Taylor Greene, William G. Jones, Athena M. King, Taj'ullah Sky Lark, Jamela M. Martin, Marcus L. Martin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Amardo...
Public Policy For Women
The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2009
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations...
The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State
The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy provides the analytical connections showing students how issues and actions are translated into public policies and institutions for resolving or managing health care issues and crises, such as the recent attempt to reform the national health care system....
Influence of Public Policy on Small Social Enterprises
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Social enterprises boost the economic landscape and benefit causes that are important to society in general. Examining the role of public policy within these small initiatives will produce more effective methods for these two avenues to work together. Influence of Public Policy on Small Social Enterprises:...
Towards a Society with Social Protection for All
A Concise History of Social Security Transformation in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. As such, it begins by investigating the establishment of the Insurance System in the early period, then moves on to the planned economy period, the Cultural Revolution period,...
Sociology and Social Policy
Essays on Community, Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range...
Shaping Global Health Policy
Global Social Policy Actors and Ideas about Health Care Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.
Rethinking Neoliberalism
Resisting the Disciplinary Regime
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world. For decades now, neoliberalism has been in the process of becoming a globally ascendant default logic that prioritizes using economic rationality for all major decisions, in all sectors of society, at the collective level...
by Loek Groot
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists. Since the late 1970s, unemployment is the primary problem...
Welfare Hot Buttons
Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2002
Welfare Hot Buttons provides one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy change in three Western countries: Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period when three "third way"...
New Labour's State of Health
Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In this timely and unique work, Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of problems in the National Health Service. Debates from political theory, political economy and public administration are used to examine health...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Assessment of Population Health Risks of Policies
Gabriel Guliš, Odile Mekel, Balázs Ádám, and Liliana Cori, editors
Public health continues to evolve as professionals work not only to prevent disease and promote well-being but also to reduce health disparities...
Capability-promoting policies
Enhancing individual and social development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked...