Comparative Social Policy

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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Globalisation and Social Development

Edited by Ludo Cuyvers

The impact of globalisation on social development is a critical issue for both developed and developing countries. In Globalisation and Social Development, leading experts investigate this from the perspective of European, and more speci...

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The Global Market for Higher Education

Tim Mazzarol, Geoffrey N. Soutar

The authors of The Global Market for Higher Education discuss this industry from a strategic and services marketing perspective and suggest a model to explain how to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage. The book draws on more tha...

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The Price of Virtue

Vivien Foster, Susana Mourato, David Pearce, Ece Özdemiroglu

The authors of this pioneering book attempt to address this problem by utilizing survey techniques, originally developed in environmental economics, to place an economic value on the benefits provided by the voluntary sector in the UK.

Hardback (April 2001)

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European Working Lives

Edited by Steve Jeffreys, Frederik M. Beyer, Christer Thörnqvist

The contributors examine global trends such as the decentralisation of industrial relations and the revival of neo-liberalism, and discuss them from a theoretical and empirical perspective. They go on to argue that these global trends ca...

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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...

Hardback (2000)

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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 ...

Hardback (2000)

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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...

Hardback (2000)

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Paperback (November 1999)

Globalization and the Welfare State

Ramesh Mishra

Globalization and the Welfare State is highly accessible and will be welcomed by students and scholars of social policy, social work, political science and sociology as well as by policymakers in international organizations and government.

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Hardback (1999)

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Education Policy

Edited by James Marshall, Michael Peters

There have been dramatic changes in education policy throughout the world in the final quarter of the 20th Century. This important volume presents an invaluable collection of previously published and specially commissioned articles whic...

Hardback (1999)

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Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism

Edited by Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen

This authoritative collection brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars in an increasingly important area of study. Social scientists and political analysts are becoming more and more aware of the importance of lon...

Hardback (1999)

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