Comparative Social Policy
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Social Planning
Edited by Jessie P.H. Poon, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
This volume presents a careful selection of the key contributions to social planning produced by leading scholars in the field. It addresses the many ethical and distributional matters which enter into planning processes. Many of these c... -
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The Economics of Crime
Edited by Isaac Ehrlich, Zhiqiang Liu
This authoritative and comprehensive collection contains the most important published papers and articles on the economics of crime. It presents a variety of different perspectives and will be an essential reference source for both resea... -
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Public Pensions and Immigration
Tim Krieger
The rapid ageing of societies in many industrialized countries threatens the stability of unfunded public pension systems. An immigration policy that accepts young workers would appear to be a simple solution to the challenge, by increas...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital]()
The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital
Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Working Mothers in Europe
Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert
Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater
Duncan A. Thomas, Roger R. Ford
This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water sector, which institutions and industries are frighteningly ill-equipped to tackle or even accept. It sugges...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economics of Social Policy
Peter G. Rosner
This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies. -
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Work, Family and Childcare
Joris Ghysels
Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Exclusion and European Policy
Edited by David G. Mayes, Jos Berghman, Robert Salais
The purpose of this book is to analyse one of the most pressing social problems of recent years, namely exclusion. The authors bring a richness of perspective, drawing on the experiences of eight European countries and a range of discipl... -
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Income Maintenance Policy
Edited by Michael Hill
This authoritative collection, which includes a new introduction surveying the fields, contains key contributions from the comparative literature on the politics of income maintenance policy. In recent years theoretical work has been do... -
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Social Environmental Research in the European Union
Michael R. Redclift, Elizabeth Shove, Barend van der Meulen, Sujatha Raman
This book explores the making of international social science, and the parts which academics, policymakers and research managers play in creating European social environmental research. The authors present and analyse a complex picture ... -
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The Foundations of the Welfare State
Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Deborah Mitchell
This three-volume compendium reproduces all the key texts on the welfare state – its rise and fall, its varying rationales and instrumentalities, its different forms in different periods and different places. Political history and socia...
