Social Policy category: 9249 books
Media Policies Revisited
The Challenge for Media Freedom and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to investigate the media's freedom and independence, and the media policy processes, institutional spaces, regulatory practices and instruments that can support the development of free and independent media in Europe.
Group Integration and Multiculturalism
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
With immigration fulfilling the role of population maintenance in many Western democracies, how should newcomers be welcomed? Pfeffer argues that states ought to promote group integration for communities that have settled through immigration, facilitating the development of group institutions that enable communication with the receiving society.
Doctors and Demonstrators
How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries’ shared heritage. Doctors and Demonstrators looks beyond simplistic cultural or religious explanations...
by Sherrow O. Pinder
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable,...
The Global Organ Shortage
Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United States, for instance, more than 10,000 people die...
Configuring Health Consumers
Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
by Dhurba P. Rizal
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2001
Decentralization of power and wealth from the center to the periphery is the best arts of democratic good governance. It is equally crucial for mobilizing the people of different social origins and bringing them together in the tasks of nation building on one hand, and transformation on the other.
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Over the past 30 years, rapid urbanization and economic growth have transformed the cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). But this unprecedented urbanization has highlighted challenges that demand significant changes to basic urban management and planning policies. This report is based on...
Pension Reform in Six Countries
What Can We Learn From Each Other?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
AxeI Borsch-Supan and Meinhard Miegel The provision of retirement income is a dynamic system that needs to be adapted constantly to the ever changing economic and societal environment. Sometimes, incremental adaptations suffice; sometimes, however, larger reform steps are necessary. We see this evolutionary...
Combatting Jihadist Terrorism through Nation-Building
A Quality-of-Life Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
This book focuses on the drivers of Jihadist terrorism and explains how a better understanding of these drivers can lead to more effective counterterrorism policies all over the world. It builds on results of the extensive body of quality of life studies to document the historical, geo-political,...
Knowing Governance
The Epistemic Construction of Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage?
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This volume is concerned with food poverty and action on food (in)security. The context is a global one; as the developed world faces a problem with overconsumption and chronic diseases, the developing world is addressing the double burden of hunger and over consumption. Even in the developed world,...
Raising the Race
Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to “have it all,” raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet...
Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings
Navigating Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications...