Social Policy category: 9249 books
Disillusioned Decades – Ireland 1966–87
From Seán Lemass to Mass Unemployment
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1987
From Seán Lemass to mass unemployment: Ireland changed between 1966 and 1987 and, Tim Pat Coogan argues in Disillusioned Decades, not for the better
The year 1966 was one in which to take stock: fifty years since the Rising, what had the Republic achieved? In Disillusioned Decades, Ireland’s...
Choice and Coercion
Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories were inspired...
Crow After Roe
How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard In Womens Health And How We Can Change That
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
2013 will mark the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of the most divisive rulings ever to shape American politics. In recent years, attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade have reached a fevered pitch. Since 2010 hundreds of bills banning or creating roadblocks to abortion access, contraception, and...
Behind Bars
Surviving Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any other time in American history, staying alive and well - both mentally and physically - is tougher than ever.
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have...
God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for...
Fascinating Hindutva
Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
In the present socio-political scenario of India, Dalits have emerged as a major force in the electoral arena and politically mobilising them has almost become a compulsion for all political parties.
Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation is a deconstruction of the fascinating...
by Sara Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field.
Remedy and Reaction
The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States...
The New World of Economics
A Remake of a Classic for New Generations of Economics Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time. In a very real sense,...
by Robert P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
With nearly two-thirds of younger Millennials (age 18-24) registered to vote, college-age Americans are a significant voting bloc. As the second installment of a two-part study, Public Religion Research Institute’s new 2012 survey gives voice to their voting preferences and voter engagement, views of the current state of government, and perspectives on affirmative action programs.
Next Generation Democracy
What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The problems of the 21st century are of unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care: all of these are political issues that could be managed with ease on a much smaller scale. But with an enormous global population, that kind of change is...
The Global Auction
The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging...
Alternatives to Privatization
Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative...