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 Diversity of Democracy
Edited by Colin Crouch, Wolfgang Streeck
Revisiting the now classical literature on neo-corporatism in light of current research and theory, the contributors illustrate the enormous influence of the ‘neo-corporatist debate’ on modern political science, political sociology, and ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World
Edited by Giuliano Bonoli, Toshimitsu Shinkawa
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pensi...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Families, States and Labour Markets
Tommy Ferrarini
Tommy Ferrarini uses a macro-comparative, longitudinal and institutional approach to study the origins and the consequences of those institutions affecting family policy in eighteen post-world war welfare democracies. This book argues t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation
Maurice Mullard
This book deals with the nature of contemporary globalisation. Maurice Mullard aims to show that globalisation is not an inescapable, unstoppable process somehow beyond human control, rather that it represents, and is being shaped by, a ...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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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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Flexible Working and Organisational Change
Edited by Bram Peper, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes, Laura den Dulk
The central aim of this book is to consider to what extent changes in organisations and in the nature of jobs are compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The bo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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Economy and Morality
Yuichi Shionoya
Economy and Morality is a remarkable contribution to economic ethics exploring key philosophical issues including efficiency versus justice and liberty versus excellence. Its unique emphasis is the economics of virtue, which is concerned...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe
Edited by Eleni Apospori, Jane Millar
Issues of poverty and social exclusion are high on the European policy agenda. The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe reports findings from a study funded by the European Commission, using data from the European Community Household P...
