Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy – serie
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Crime and Social Exclusion
Av JONES FINER, Catherine Jones-Finer m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
324 kr
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Via a mutual concern with social exclusion, the agendas of criminology and social policy have begun to overlap far more in recent years. The two fields have always shared a common concern with class, and more recently with race and gender, but remained rigorously differentiated until crime …
New Risks, New Welfare
Signposts for Social Policy
Häftad, 2000
297 kr
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This exceptional collection, the third in the Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy series, explores the profound changes currently underway which will have significant implications for the future of social policy. New Risks, New Welfare provides a look at the likely developments in social …
Environmental Issues and Social Welfare
Av Cahill, Fitzpatrick m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
342 kr
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This topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare. Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues. Presents a challenging socio-environmental agenda for social policy. …
Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy
Häftad, 2014
298 kr
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By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy delves deeply into one of the central questions of the field for the last 20 years. Chronicles the trend towards evidence-based policy over the last decadeAssesses the …
New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market
Av Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
303 kr
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Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy. Explores how reducing the level of UK benefit …
Welfare of Food
Rights and Responsibilities in a Changing World
Häftad, 2003
358 kr
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The critical role of food in contemporary policy, in the UK, Europe and internationally, is explored in a comprehensive and readable account of current issues, including food rights, patenting, safety, aid, choice and poverty. This landmark collection explores the critical role of food in …
Making a European Welfare State?
Convergences and Conflicts Over European Social Policy
Av Taylor-Gooby, Peter Taylor-Gooby
Häftad, 2004
312 kr
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This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly changing field. Covers developments across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to …
Migration, Immigration and Social Policy
Av Jones Finer, Catherine Jones Finer
Häftad, 2006
310 kr
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This thought-provoking and controversial collection tackles a subject of urgent international concern – migration, immigration and social policy. Presents forthright yet realistic analyses of key issues. Contributors are drawn from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, and bring a wide …
Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside
Häftad, 2007
297 kr
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This book focuses attention upon rural social policy and welfare issues within selected areas in the US, Australia, continental Europe and Britain as well as in countrysides within less industrialised India and Mexico. This edited collection adds to the new genre of geopolitical and socio-economic …
Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes. Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, …
Times They Are Changing?
Crisis and the Welfare State
Av Bent Greve
Häftad, 2012
297 kr
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The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world. Provides comprehensive and in depth coverage of changes in welfare states as a …
Business of Research
Issues of Policy and Practice
Av Catherine Jones Finer, Gillian Lewando Hundt
Häftad, 2001
259 kr
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The politics and practice of social research nowadays amount more to a form of business activity, than to a scholarly pursuit. This collection of specially commissioned papers offers an unrivalled introduction to the realities and pitfalls of undertaking funded research, with reference to a …
Crime and Social Policy
Häftad, 2012
247 kr
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Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders. Provides an invaluable examination of the …
Contracting-out Welfare Services
Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
Av Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine
Häftad, 2015
247 kr
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Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation …
Overstretched
European Families Up Against the Demands of Work and Care
Häftad, 2005
259 kr
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Overstretched provides fresh perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis, offering an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policies in a new light. A collection of essays providing new perspectives on the reality of …
Living in Dangerous Times
Fear, Insecurity, Risk and Social Policy
Av David Denney
Häftad, 2009
247 kr
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Through a series of essays by leading social public policy experts, Living in Dangerous Times analyzes the impact of fear on the development of social policy in the UK in the post 9-11 - and 7/11 - world. Incorporates an approach that pushes back traditional views of what the study of social policy …
