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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Over the past few years, e-government has been rapidly changing the way governmental services are provided to citizens and businesses. These services improve business and government exchange capability, provide a new way to discover and share information, and play a part in the evolution of future technologies....
Public Services
A New Reform Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Griffiths, Kippin and Stoker bring together many of the country's leading academic and policy experts to explore the long-term challenges facing public services, and ask what the role of government, citizens and society should be in addressing them. The book sets out a new reform agenda, exploring...
A Policy Travelogue
Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy élites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light...
by Caroline McGee
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Based on the first-hand accounts of children and their mothers regarding their experiences of both domestic violence and support services, this is the first book to examine children's experiences of a range of service provision in response to domestic violence. It seeks to encourage a more effective...
Dismantling Solidarity
Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political...
Social Purpose Enterprises
Case Studies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce who lives on the margins...
Voices for Children
Rhetoric and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why has public policy neglected the development phase of young Americans' lives not only in substantive dollars spent, but also in program design and implementation?...
American Dream
Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
This is a major contribution to our understanding of European integration.
It analyzes for the first time, in a highly systematic fashion, European integration as transnational political society formation in a common political space.
Four conceptual chapters discuss different approaches...
Mothers in Poverty
A Study of Fatherless Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages...
The Unmaking of Man
Disability and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction...
Technology and the Future of Work
The Impact on Labour Markets and Welfare States
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Changes in the labour market demand new solutions to mitigate the potentially dramatic wiping away of jobs, and this important book offers both analysis and suggestions for change. Bent Greve provides a systematic and vigorous assessment of the impact of new technology on the labour market and welfare...
Exploiting Childhood
How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?
Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting...
by Ramesh Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.