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The Italian welfare state in a European perspective
A comparative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is a need to understand the Italian welfare state, but as yet it has received little academic research attention. The Italian Welfare State in a European Perspective is the first book to explore the evolution of Italy's welfare state in the decades since the ‘Trente Glorieuses’ (1945–75)....
by Lisa Merkel-Holguin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
As we approach the year 2000, infant mortality rates, child placement dilemmas, and appropriate socialization of children continue to challenge the field of child welfare. It is thus especially significant to reflect on the history of child welfare. The carefully selected topics explored in this volume...
Welfare in an Idle Society?
Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying...
Good times, bad times (revised edition)
The welfare myth of them and us
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent – healthcare, education, pensions, benefits – is the centre of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare...
Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression
A Critical Review of Anti-Discriminatory Policies in Health and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice (ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) form a trinity of concepts, nested into one another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years. They tend to have developed as forms of practice panaceas and as a result have...
Clear blue water?
The Conservative Party and the welfare state since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book takes an authoritative look at Conservative Party policy and practice in the modern era. The book takes as its main starting point the progressive One...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2002
`A good foundation for those intent on further research' - ChildRight
`It is intelligent, lively, clear, and well written' -Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent at Canterbury
`This is an excellent source book which is up-to-date and covers key debates on childhood in an accessible...
by Glennerster, Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The challenge of meeting the growing cost of welfare is one of the most pressing issues facing governments of our time. Glennerster’s authoritative Understanding the cost of welfare assesses what welfare costs and how it is funded sector-by-sector. The book is written in a clear, accessible style,...
by Asbjørn Wahl
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neo-liberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjørn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across Europe, identifies the most important challenges and presents practical proposals...
Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context
Patterns of Welfare Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This is the first book providing a comprehensive and systematic empirical assessment of the post-communist welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of their Western European counterparts. Based on the classical typologies of welfare regimes, the study systematically compares 26 European...
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"...
Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe
Social Assistance, Activation and Care for Older People
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are widely debated within European public policy, but few systematic studies assessing the effects of changing divisions of power for policy-making have been carried out....
Politics of Segmentation
Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a historical comparison of Italy and Germany post-1945, the book shows how a high...
The end of the Irish Poor Law?
Welfare and healthcare reform in revolutionary and independent Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the growing historiography of the twentieth century which moves beyond political history, and demonstrates that concepts of respectability, social class and...