Comparative Social Policy
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Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy
Edited by Bent Greve, Amílcar Moreira, Minna van Gerven
Research in social policy has been greatly influenced by the emergence of modern political economy in the late 1970s. The Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy offers a systematic, yet comprehensive, framework for understand...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality
Edited by Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Lindsey Macmillan
The Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality is motivated by a core question in social science: to what extent does one’s family background and childhood experience predict success in life? Bringing together experts in their res...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook on Public Policy and Food Security
Edited by Sheryl L. Hendriks, Suresh C. Babu
The Handbook on Public Policy and Food Security provides multi-disciplinary insight into food security analysis across the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As food security is an essential outcome and a part of sustainable...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook on Social Innovation and Social Policy
Edited by Stephen Sinclair, Simone Baglioni
Applying a critical perspective to stimulate dialogue and mutual learning between the interconnected fields of social innovation and social policy analysis, this dynamic Handbook investigates the often-contested relationship between thes...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Human Needs and the Welfare State
Bent Greve
This unique and forward-thinking book explores how we understand needs in relation to the welfare state and to what extent we can, if at all, measure need.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Single Parents and Child Support Systems
Edited by Kay Cook, Thomas Meysen, Adrienne Byrt
Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutiona...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creative Social Policy
Johannes Kananen
Innovative and forward-thinking in its approach, this book advocates for the liberation of people’s creative potential through the systematic transformation of work and capital. Providing a detailed account and analysis of current social...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Urban Social Policies
Edited by Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca, Elisabetta Mocca
The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Future of Social Care
Peter Beresford, Colin Slasberg
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care polic... -
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Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration
Edited by Giuseppe Sciortino, Martina Cvajner, Peter J. Kivisto
Adeptly navigating one of the most pressing issues on the current global agenda, this topical Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and research-based exploration of the sociology of migration. As well as highlighting the field’s ac...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Social Reformism 2.0
Maurizio Ferrera, Joan Miró, Stefano Ronchi
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Automation, digitalisation, the post-industrial transition and climate change are creating n...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare Chauvinism in Europe
Gianna M. Eick
The redistribution of welfare resources to migrants continues to polarise society. Not only politicians from the radical right but also from more mainstream parties are capitalising on the idea of ‘welfare for our kind’, or welfare chauv...eBook:Find out more$40.00