The Short Guide to Social Policy (Short Guides)
by John Hudson, Stuart Lowe, and Stefan Kuhner
What is social policy? Why is it important to you? Social policy is the means by which we improve the welfare and well-being of society. It determines how we support and care for disadvantaged people, who educates our children, why some countries have free healthcare, when people receive benefits, and what we should do about poverty, homelessness, ill-health and a multitude of other social problems and inequalities.This short but systematic introductory text offers a clear and concise overview o...
Herrschaft Durch Kader (Schriften Des Zentralinstituts Fur Sozialwiss. Forschung Der, #28)
by Gert-Joachim Glaener
Diese Arbeit ist im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens entstanden, das unter dem Arbeitstitel "Fachwissen in der Politik. Studien zum Wandel des Herrschafts- und Gesellschaftssystems in der DDR seit 1963" im Arbeitsbereich DDR-Forschung und -Archiv des Zentralinstituts fur sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung der Freien Univer- sitat Berlin durchgefuhrt wird. Im Arbeitsbericht des Instituts wird die Problemstel- lung dieses Projekts folgendermassen beschrieben: Das "Neue OEkonomische System der Planu...
Insights into Inclusive Growth, Employment and Wellbeing in India
by Arup Mitra
What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on. It begins by examining the sectoral composition of growth, revisiting the issues related to industry-services balance, and also brings out the spatial dimension of growth. On the one hand the industry does not seem to have played a major role in the context of employment g...
Managing Public Trust
This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust. It examines the current state of public trust, including a comprehensive global overview of both the research and practical applications of managing public trust by presenting research from seven countries (Brazil, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey) from three continents. The book is divided into five parts, covering the meaning of trust, types, dimension and the role of trust in management; the organiza...
Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi (Exploring Urban Change in South Asia)
This insightful volume examines the politics and contestations around urban space in India's national capital, Delhi. Moving beyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engages with ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed in this volume reveal the processes, relations, and logics through which the city's grand plans are executed. The contributors argue that urbanization is negotiated and muddled, particularly in the spaces occupied by informal lab...
Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces how for centuries emergent laws have combated alleged threats from unruly vagrants while largely ignoring causal factors like economic fluctuation, bad harvests, disease and war. It is argued that only educational and social reform will alleviat...
The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)
by Mechthild Roos
The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at first. Yet this book shows that the EP was much more influential in shaping Community policy in the early years of the integration process than either the founding Treaties or most existing scholarship would allow. It studies the EP's institutional evolution through the lens of Community social policy, a policy area with a particularly strong ideational dimensio...
In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up to the present. He covers the various forms of American media-books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. The tale is varied and interesting, replete with a stock of colorful characters such as Anthony Comstock, Mae West, Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, Opie and Anthony, Judy Blume...
Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy
by Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
This book is a compilation of seminal articles on poverty andwelfare in the United States that would work well as reading forgraduate level courses in welfare, poverty, and evaluation. * Articles from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management -considered to be one of the leading forums for the exploration ofpoverty and welfare - presented in a single volume * Presents high-quality research, performed over many years by awide range of individuals and organizations * Includes articles on pover...
Inclusion, Disability and Culture (Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity, #3)
This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world. It presents auto-ethnographic perspectives on disability across cultures, societies, and countries by documenting individuals' personal narratives, thought processes and reflections. Chapter authors share cross-cultural perspectives within and across various countries, such as India, Australia, United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Croatia, Brazil, South Africa, and Qatar....
A renowned founding mother of the feminist movement issues a passionate challenge to fellow activists and to anyone who cares about women's issues or social progress: If we want to move forward and have impact in the 21st century, we must transform our 18th century organizational structures and outdated 20th century strategies
Life Expectations of the People (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path)
This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness. Based on large-scale survey data combined with the corresponding sociological theory for analysis, it presents detailed information, compelling arguments, and well-founded conclusions, offering insights into the commonalities and differences between these two countries' dreams.
Assessing Social Impact of Social Enterprises (SpringerBriefs in Business)
by Cecilia Grieco
This book explores the diversity of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) models and outlines a self-assessment on models to support social entrepreneurs. The chapters trace the concept and origins of social entrepreneurship and elicits current implementation of SIA models by social enterprises. The comprehensive review of over seventy five SIA models will be especially useful for social entrepreneurs and researchers.
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism about the effectiveness of government withered as the free market failed, and it seems safe to say that Keynesian economics would not have flourished if the depression had not occurred. While this sev...
Feminist struggles have targeted corporate capital, male-dominated social structures, and patriarchal ideas and culture. The contest with the state, however, has provided the most substantial focus. The public sector is an employer of great numbers of women; women are the largest consumers of state services; the state regulates both the capitalist economy and the private household; struggle with the state has brought about change that is favourable to women's lives. Or has it? This collection l...