Dimensions of Inequality in Canada (Equality | Security | Community)
Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged? This volume closely examines these differing views through a careful analysis of the causes, trends, and dimensions of inequality to provide an overall assessment of the state of inequality in Canada. Contributors include economists, sociologists, philosophers, and political scientists, and the discussion ranges from frameworks for thinking about inequality, to original analyses usin...
Der Integrierte Aussenseiter (Europhaische Hochschulschriften, #508)
by Karl-Heinz Hucke
Schon Hesses fruhe Helden erscheinen wie radikale Aussenseiter der Gesellschaft - und sind doch nur deren bewusstlose Abbilder: integrierte Klischees herrschender Ideologie, welche bis heute gebraucht wird zur alltaglichen Entmundigung der Individuen."
Becoming an American
by Us Commission on Immigration Reform and Barbara Jordan
This is a story of how a group of largely provincial civil servants and politicians came together in the face of neoliberal hegemony to advance the national child Benefit, national children's, Agenda and Social Union Framework Agreement. This study peers behind the ideology of media-speak to show how Canadian federalism was made to work and where it failed to work. It peers deeply into the Canadian political economy to understand the role of these social programs in the context of globalization....
The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference. Yet with the U.S. Surgeon General estimating that approximately 20% of young people display signs of psychological problems, the need for such services - particularly for interventions that not only address mental health issues but also reinforce protective factors - is considerable. Evidence-...
Communes and the Venezuelan State (Social Movements in the Americas)
by Anderson Bean
Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 3,000 communes have been constructed. In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean offers a critical analysis of these experiments in popular and workers' power and their potential for societal transformation within and beyond Venezuela. Drawing on exte...
Across the Great Divide
Amid the policy gridlock that characterises most environmental debates, a new conservation movement has emerged. Known as "collaborative conservation," it emphasises local participation, sustainability, and inclusion of the disempowered, and focuses on voluntary compliance and consent rather than legal and regulatory enforcement. Encompassing a wide range of local partnerships and initiatives, it is changing the face of resource management throughout the western United States. Across the Great D...
Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I (Sustainable Development Goals)
This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts. As a global and long-standing issue, violence against women is gaining public visibility across the African continent with some states announcing a national crisis warranting immediate redress. At the global level, the elimination of all forms of violence against all women and girls forms a key part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender...
Social Justice in Contemporary Housing (Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy)
by Helen Taylor
Philosophy is not usually seen as a guidance for modern housing policy, but in this new book, Dr Helen Taylor argues that there is something innovative, unusual, and worth discussing about the application of philosophy to housing. The philosophical framework used within this book is John Rawls’ conception of justice as fairness. The UK has gone through several shifts in housing policy over the past decade, most recently by introducing the controversial ‘Bedroom Tax’, in an effort to make more cu...
Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany
by Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos
During the first half of the twentieth century, Canada's and Germany's responses to questions of national membership consisted of discriminatory policies aimed at harnessing migration for economic ends. Yet, by the end of the century, both countries were transformed into highly diverse multicultural societies. How did this remarkable shift come about? Triadafilopoulos argues that, after the war, global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions, opening th...
Every year, over 1.3 million people apply to visit, work, or settle in Canada and discover that their future rests in visa officers’ hands. How do these officers decide who gets in? Seeking answers to this question, Vic Satzewich gained access to eleven overseas visa offices. Points of Entry reveals immigration officers in action as they determine credibility and risk. Contrary to popular opinion, individual bias rarely enters into their decisions. Instead, a combination of experience, organizat...
The Europeanisation of Industrial Relations
by Wilhelm Eberwein, Jochen Tholen, and Joachim Schuster
This title was first published in 2002: Although the economic integration of the European Union is far-advanced, its social dimension remains under-developed. Often there is uncertainty about, and lack of information on, the economic, social and legal situation of employees in the other EU countries. This study investigates this situation. It acknowledges the term "Europeanization" as being in no way clearly defined, but offers an interpretation of the Europeanization of industrial relations as...
Power and Transnational Activism (Rethinking Globalizations)
This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, r...
Imagining Europe as a Global Player (Multiple Europes S., #46) (Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes, #46)
by Christoffer Kolvraa
This book argues that since 2001 the primary discursive context for articulating a European identity within the EU has increasingly become the idea of a common foreign policy for Europe. A new grand project of making Europe a true global player is being put forth and it is this as yet unrealised ideal that European citizens are now being asked to identify with. The author examines European identity as an ideological construction that seeks to elicit emotional and affective attachment to the poli...
The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental re-appraisal. It is now commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy' in which responsibility for welfare and social care is shifted from the state to the family and community. This text critically assesses the range of academic and political debates around the questions such a shift raises, exploring how far social solidarity is possible when social inequality has become so in evidence in the last two decades of...
Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century (Studies in Politics, Security and Society, #9)
This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and social aspects of radicalism and terrorism. A portion of the contributions are of a theoretical nature, they constitute an attempt at constructing analytical frameworks for studies on the two phenomena...
Chancen Fur Das Deutsche Gesundheitssystem
by Both Professors Michael E Porter and Clemens Guth
Die Kosten im deutschen Gesundheitssystem steigen, zugleich werden Qualitatsprobleme immer offensichtlicher - trotz aller Reformbemuhungen. Die Autoren gehen davon aus, dass nicht Kostenkontrolle, sondern die Steigerung des Patientennutzens das Ziel ist, das alle Akteure vereinen kann. In zwoelf Empfehlungen erklaren sie, wie sich Leistungserbringer im Wettbewerb um Qualitat organisieren sollten, wie Krankenkassen eine aktivere Rolle spielen und das Vergutungssystem kunftig Exzellenz in der Vers...
Serving the Nation (New Directions in Native American Studies)
by Julie L. Reed
Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy - a form of what today might be called social welfare - based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated for the social good, was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of such traditions in shaping the alternative social welfare system of the Cherokee Nation, as well as their...
Ending Hunger Now
by George S McGovern, Bob Dole, and Donald E. Messer
"Ending Hunger Now" brings together three powerful voices behind a shared conviction: that helping the millions who lack basic provision for food has become a religious imperative and human priority. Writing for congregations and individuals of faith, McGovern, Dole, and Messer appeal to the religious ethical foundations for action against hunger. Informative, inspiring, and filled with practical personal involvement and political commitment to the cause.
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering (Routledge Contemporary Japan)
by Naonori Kodate and Kashiko Kodate
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what measures the government, universities and research institutes are taking to address this issue. This book sheds light on historical developments and the current gender equality situation in Japan, through th...
Environmental Issues and Social Welfare (Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy)
This topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare. * Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues. * Presents a challenging socio--environmental agenda for social policy. * Examines a wide range of themes and topics which link the environment and social policy and welfare.