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Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children
A Cross Country Study of Policies and Practice
Av Marit Skivenes, Ravinder Barn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1452 kr
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The book examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries. These countries include Australia/New Zealand, Belgium/the Netherlands, England, Estonia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Norway, and the United States--all …
Adjusting to a World in Motion
Trends in Global Migration and Migration Policy
Av BESHAROV, Douglas J. Besharov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1898 kr
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International migration has reached new heights since the 1960s. Altogether, some 215 million people live in countries other than their countries of birth, and according to surveys, another 700 million say they would leave their homes and move to another country if they could. Nations-both sending …
Welfare, Work, and Poverty
Social Assistance in China
Av Qin Gao
Inbunden, 2017
1202 kr
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Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao -- 20 years after its inception. Dibao serves the dual function of (a) providing a basic …
Work and the Social Safety Net
Labor Activation in Europe and the United States
Av Douglas J. Besharov, Douglas M. Call
Inbunden, 2022
964 kr
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During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy--with …
Child Welfare Removals by the State
A Cross-Country Analysis of Decision-Making Systems
Av Kenneth Burns, Tarja Pvsv m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1229 kr
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Child Welfare Removals by the State addresses a most important (but little-researched) legal proceeding: when the State intervenes in the private family sphere to remove children at risk to a place of safety, adoption, or in other forms of out-of-home care. It is an intervention into the private …
Improving Public Services
International Experiences in Using Evaluation Tools to Measure Program Performance
Av Douglas J. Besharov, Karen J. Baehler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1865 kr
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The government performance movement has been in full swing for decades around the world. So, why do so many public programs and organizations continue to underperform? A major reason is that measuring the types of performance that people value most -- real outcomes for citizens -- continues to be …
Decent Incomes for All
Improving Policies in Europe
Av Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1091 kr
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In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the forefront as a specific area for EU policy cooperation and coordination. Regrettably, however, little progress has been achieved so far, either at the …
Youth Labor in Transition
Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe
Av Jacqueline O'Reilly, Janine Leschke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1243 kr
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Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Youth Labor in Transition examines young people's integration into employment, alongside the …
Social Exclusion in Cross-National Perspective
Actors, Actions, and Impacts from Above and Below
Av Robert J. Chaskin, Bong Joo Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
962 kr
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Global processes have an increasing influence on local contexts and the nature and distribution of opportunities among populations across the globe. While capital and population mobility, advances in information and communications technology, and economic liberalization have fostered economic …
United in Diversity?
Comparing Social Models in Europe and America
Inbunden, 2009
1127 kr
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Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and social progress. As this political …
The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery
A Comparative Study
Av Palley
Inbunden, 2022
1901 kr
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This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. By examining the mix of public and private sector funding of healthcare services as well as the mix of public and private …
Children and Young People's Participation in Child Protection
International Research and Practical Applications
Av Katrin Kri^D%z, Mimi Petersen
Inbunden, 2023
794 kr
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Children's participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume that weaves together recent international contributions on the topic. This volume fills that gap, beginning with the …
Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth
Cross-National Trends and Challenges
Av James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1577 kr
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Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth: Cross-National Trends and Challenges addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems assess current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors. This includes dealing …
European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy
Av Stefanie Börner, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Inbunden, 2023
1043 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select open access locations.During the first two …
The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia
Inbunden, 2019
1091 kr
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Despite the twenty-first century's often being referred to as the Asian Century-indicating hope for economic growth and the rebalancing of the global order-population aging and stagnation present an existential threat to the success of China and other territories of Pacific Asia (namely Japan, …
The Korean State and Social Policy
How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy
Av Stein Ringen, Huck-ju Kwon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1536 kr
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There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable democratic polity? South Korea was long …
Social Policy and Citizenship
The Changing Landscape
Inbunden, 2012
2169 kr
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In both Europe and America, the landscape of social policies has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades, especially in endeavors to develop new welfare arrangements. How does this affect citizenship-at-large as defined by the Marshallian triad of personal, democratic, and social …
Activation or Workfare? Governance and the Neo-Liberal Convergence
Inbunden, 2014
1628 kr
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The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a shift in how welfare-states deal with those at the bottom of the income ladder. This shift involved the introduction/strengthening of work-obligations as a condition for receiving minimum income benefits - which, in some countries, was …
Child Protection Systems
International Trends and Orientations
Av Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1811 kr
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Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway. Focusing on the …
The Age of Dualization
The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies
Av EMMENEGGER, Emmenegger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1206 kr
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Poverty, increased inequality, and social exclusion are back on the political agenda in Western Europe, not only as a consequence of the Great Recession of 2008, but also because of a seemingly structural trend towards increased inequality in advanced industrial societies that has persisted since …
Counting the Poor
New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States
Av Douglas J. Besharov, Kenneth A. Couch
Inbunden, 2012
1985 kr
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The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To gauge whether a person is poor, European states often focus on a person's relative position in the income distribution to measure poverty while the United States looks …
Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction
How Successful Are European Welfare States?
Av Bea Cantillon, Frank Vandenbroucke
Inbunden, 2014
1811 kr
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This book examines the link between poverty on the one hand and labour market participation and the distributive capacity of welfare states on the other hand. It focuses on the working-age population and the evolutions in Europe during the 'good economic years' before the financial crisis. The book …
Caring for a Living
Migrant Women, Aging Citizens, and Italian Families
Inbunden, 2016
1283 kr
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Today's world is aging at a great speed, and although increased longevity represents one of the greatest achievements of the last century, the extension of life expectancy does not necessarily correspond to an extension of healthy lives. Aging populations, particularly those with a high percentage …
University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times
Av Paola Mattei
Inbunden, 2014
1536 kr
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Financial sustainability is one of the key challenges confronting Europe's universities today. Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of knowledge creation and development, which itself is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth, public funding of higher education in most …
Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition
Av BESHAROV, Douglas Besharov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1894 kr
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The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way …
