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Leroy H Pelton
[Paperback 1999]
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Offering a new way of thinking about liberalism and public policies, this book contends that group-based policies, predicated on all manner of group construction, pervade public policy. Such policies are grounded in group distinctions that include not only race, ethnicity, gender, and age, but current and past behavior, employment status,... more
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Norbert Finzsch ,
Dietmar Schirmer ,
David Lazar
[Paperback 2002]
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In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance. Identity and Intolerance attempts to show how German and American societies have historically confronted and currently confront matters of national, racial, and ethnic... more
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Mark Birkin ,
Ilan Katz ,
John Pinkerton
[Hardbound 2003]
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The delivery of effective family support is a key global child welfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutes family support or what the best ways are to evaluate it. Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically offers a full review of the conceptual and operational problems involved... more
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Yair Zalmanovitch
[Paperback 2002]
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National Research Council
[Hardcover 1991]
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This book offers up-to-date information, looking at how the family and the workplace arrived at their current relationship and evaluating the quality and the cost of care for dependents in this nation.... more
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Thomas J Sullivan
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Many serious social problems threaten the United States and the world. By studying these problems, students will gain the tools and the insight that will enable them to analyze problems and solutions on their own. Intended to be a training manual for the study of social problems, this book explores... more
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Roger Goodman
[Hardcover 2002]
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Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and... more
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World Bank Group
[Hardcover 2006]
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Supporting young people's transition to adulthood poses important opportunities and risky challenges for development policy. Are education systems preparing young people to cope with the demands of changing economies? What kind of support do they get as they enter the labor market? Can they move freely to where the jobs... more
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Paul Spicker
[Hardcover 2010, 1st Edition]
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This classic textbook has now been revised, enlarged, and fully updated. It contains an entire new section on politics and policy, including new material on the nature of policy, the role of the state, international social policy, law and social policy, consultation and stakeholder involvement, partnership working, policy analysis, and... more
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Barbara Bruns ,
Alain Mingat ,
Ramahatra Rakotomalala
[Hardcover 2005]
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This book seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Where do we stand today in relation to the target of universal primary completion? Is universal primary completion achievable by 2015? What would he required to achieve it? The book includes a CD-ROM containing a "hands-on" version of the simulation... more
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Christopher Pierson
[Paperback 1998, 2nd Edition]
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An updated edition of one of the most widely used texts covering debates over the welfare state. First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive... more
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Tomas Frejka ,
Jean Paul Sardon
[Paperback 2010]
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"This is a tour de force in cohort fertility analysis, a deep and powerful piece of work. It is a striking demonstration of the force of really detailed empirical analysis of excellent and comprehensive data, with the data looked at from every angle and judiciously extrapolated into the future. It... more
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Gareth Stedman Jones
[Paperback 2008]
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In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against... more
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Rodney E Hero
[Paperback 2000]
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The distinctive thesis of Faces of Inequality is that a state's racial and ethnic composition, as much as any other factor, shapes its political processes and policies. To understand state politics, therefore, we must consider them from the perspective of social diversity. Scholars have broadly acknowledged that racial and ethnic... more
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Kenneth R Hammond
[Paperback 2000]
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From the O.J. Simpson verdict to peace-making in the Balkans, the critical role of human judgement--complete with its failures, flaws, and successes--has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgement and its impact on events that take place in... more
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Ian Gough ,
Geof Wood ,
Armando Barrientos
[Paperback 2008]
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Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare--operates in the poorer regions of the world. Making an important contribution by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America, it develops a... more
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Jan Rus
[Paperback 2003]
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The Maya Indian peoples of Chiapas had been mobilizing politically for years before the Zapatista rebellion that brought them to international attention. This authoritative volume explores the different ways that Indians across Chiapas have carved out autonomous cultural and political spaces in their diverse communities and regions. Offering a consistent... more
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Sara Arber ,
Claudine Attias Donfut
[Hardcover 2000]
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This collection brings together a range of leading researchers and theorists from across Europe to advance a sociological understanding of generational relations, in terms of the state and the family and how they are interlinked. Authors examine how changes, such as cuts in welfare provision, migration, urbanization and individualisation influence... more
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Barrie Houlihan ,
Anita White ,
Houlihan Barrie
[Paperback 2002]
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This text traces the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy. It explores the emergence of sports development from the early years of public policy for sport in the 1960s to the contemporary era. This analysis is set against... more
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R Edwards ,
Rosalind Edwards ,
Judith Glover
[Paperback 2001]
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This spirited and informed collection of papers by leading analysts addresses key questions related to welfare, citizenship and risk including: the nature of insecurity and social protection; the balance between inequality and egalitarianism; the relationship between governments and citizens; the parameters of citizenship; and the impact of risk assessment and... more
