Social Policy category: 9249 books
Still Renovating
A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness, housing is once again an important issue. In Still Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the story of the rise and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The fourth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy maintains the text's inimitable and best-selling approach. Written by a wide range of experts in the field, it has been extensively updated and revised to take account of recent developments and debates and changing political and economic...
The Policy-Making Process and Social Learning in Russia
The Case of Housing Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Centering its study around three explanatory variables - actors, institutions and ideas - this book argues that Russia's hybrid institutional environment reduces the competition of policy ideas, both at the stage of policy elaboration by the community of state and non-state policy experts, and also at the stage of policy adoption by parliament.
Brain Gain
Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad. Rather than suffering from the "brain drain" of talented and educated individuals emigrating, the United States has benefited greatly over the years from the "brain gain"...
by Hartley Dean
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the international human rights and human...
Outside Justice
Immigration and the Criminalizing Impact of Changing Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Outside Justice: Undocumented Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System fills a clear gap in the scholarly literature on the increasing conceptual overlap between popular perceptions of immigration and criminality, and its reflection in the increasing practical overlap between criminal justice and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and workers. But despite local and global efforts and initiatives, the state of family policy in different areas of the world varies widely.
Through a cross-section...
Pathways to State Welfare in Korea
Interests, Ideas and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Why has Korean social policy developed differently from that of other East Asian countries? While in many respects Korea can be compared with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, where economic development has been the chief priority of state action, Korea has also implemented extensive welfare reform,...
Vulnerability and young people
Care and social control in policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often escape attention. This distinctive book...
by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies....
Migration and Integration in Singapore
Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Between 2000 and 2010, Singapore witnessed a huge influx of foreign migrants. The proportion of permanent residents in the total population increased from 7% to 11%, while the share of non-resident foreigners has risen from 19% to 25%. This was as much the result of the spontaneous movement of labour...
Policy change, public attitudes and social citizenship
Does neoliberalism matter?
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Neoliberal reforms have seen a radical shift in government thinking about social citizenship rights around the world. But have they had a similarly significant impact on public support for these rights? This unique book traces public views on social citizenship across three decades through attitudinal...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. This is a seminal collection. For the first time, leading scholars and practitioners from Taiwan join with counterparts from Britain to offer comparable commentary on key social policy and social service issues affecting their respective countries. The result...
The Economics of Immigration
Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The Economics of Immigration summarizes the best social science studying the actual impact of immigration, which is found to be at odds with popular fears. Greater flows of immigration have the potential to substantially increase world income and reduce extreme poverty. Existing evidence indicates...