Sociology and Social Policy

Governance, Globalization and Public Policy

Edited by Patricia Kennett

Governance, Globalization and Public Policy is concerned with exploring the nature of the policy arena in the context of globalization and the reconstitution of the state. The contributors to this book seek to broaden, extend and integ...

Paperback (October 2009)

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Hardback (March 2008)

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The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy

Edited by Rune Ervik, Nanna Kildal, Even Nilssen

This book considers the role of international organizations and their promotion of ideas and recommendations in social and health policy. It explores a wide range of organizations, scrutinizing their ideas-based content, their role as po...

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Defiance in Taxation and Governance

Valerie Braithwaite

This innovative book presents a theory of tax defiance, integrating five years of research on people’s hopes, fears and expectations of the tax system and the authority that administers it.

Hardback (August 2009)

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Long-run Growth, Social Institutions and Living Standards

Edited by Neri Salvadori, Arrigo Opocher

This engaging book contains a set of original contributions to the much-debated issues of long-run economic growth in relation to institutional and social progress.

Hardback (July 2009)

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Population Ageing, Pensions and Growth

John Creedy, Ross Guest

This highly topical book explores key issues in evaluating the long-run implications of population ageing for pensions, taxation, intergenerational equity and social welfare.

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Public or Private Economies of Knowledge?

Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin

This book presents an analytical framework for understanding the shifting ‘great divide’ in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel economic sociology of innovation, based on the ‘instituted economic process’ app...

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The Impact of the WTO

Trish Kelly

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nine environmental and health disputes that have been adjudicated at the WTO since 1995. The investigation concludes that criticism of the WTO has been overstated and, s...

Paperback (June 2009)

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Hardback (November 2007)

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Women and Employment

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi

How is women’s employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women’s employment and addresses the challenges facing women today.

Paperback (2009)

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Education and Inequality Across Europe

Edited by Peter Dolton, Rita Asplund, Erling Barth

The relationship between education and income inequality is of fundamental importance. In this book, an international group of renowned contributors focus on patterns of inequality and their relationship to education using recent data fr...

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Taxing the Working Poor

Achim Kemmerling

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market.

Hardback (June 2009)

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Social Policy in an Ageing Society

David Reisman

Around half the world’s population live in countries where the fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and where life expectancy is increasing dramatically. Using Singapore as a case study, Social Policy in an Ageing Society exp...

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