Social Policy category: 9249 books
Ending Zero Tolerance
The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Ending Zero Tolerance answers the calls of grassroots communities pressing for integration and increased education funding with a complete rethinking of school discipline.
In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with stories about schools issuing draconian punishments for relatively innocent...
Tajikistan
Country Gender Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The resurgence of conservative patriarchal values in Tajikistan have led to the rise of early marriages and polygamy, compromising women’s and girls’ opportunities to realize their full potential to live quality lives, and have deterred women from fully participating in and benefitting from development....
Unequal Coverage
The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The Affordable Care Act’s impact on coverage, access to care, and systematic exclusion in our health care system
The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years...
by Clément Carbonnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to support the development of household services across Europe. It highlights the impact of these costly policies on the creation of low quality jobs and on labour market dualisation, and questions their social and economic outcomes.
Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions
Actions and Strategies for Spatial and Regional Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Europe’s population is ageing and decreasing. Demographic change is making not only regional and territorial adaptation necessary, but also new region-specific spatial planning and regional development. This publication focusses on demographic change and its implications for the economy and social...
The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
Challenges and Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political,...
Justice and Conflicts
Theoretical and Empirical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Central to the book are questions concerning the existence and the characteristics of justice motives, and concerning the influence that justice motives and justice judgements have on the emergence, but also the solution of social conflicts. Five main themes will be addressed: (1) “Introduction...
The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market
Early Childhood Education and Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.
Contesting Water Rights
Local, State, and Global Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people’s struggles for rights to water have intensified. In this context, this book examines the role of the ambivalent state in local struggles for water, which are deeply intertwined with global...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
The book deals with the role of the international level in securing or supplementing national welfare functions. The authors evaluate the role of international labour law, social rights as human rights, the World Trade Organisation, non-governmental organisations and international taxation law, in...
Human Suffering and Quality of Life
Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress....
The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine
A Social Science Critique
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This book provides the first detailed examination and critical assessment of the field to be made by social science.
China's Economic Growth: Towards Sustainable Economic Development and Social Justice
Volume II: The Impact of Economic Policies on the Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present. The author investigates China's domestic and international policies, the impact of these policies on economic growth, and their effect on the quality of life for the people of China. In the first volume, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in societies with social democratic welfare states committed to redistributive politics.