10 Reducing Inequality

Handbook on Gender and Social Policy

Edited by Sheila Shaver

Providing a state of the art overview, this comprehensive Handbook is an essential introduction to the subject of Gender and Social Policy. Bringing together original contributions and research from leading researchers it covers the theo...

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Children''s Lives in Southern Europe

Edited by Lourdes Gaitán, Yannis Pechtelidis, Catarina Tomás, Natália Fernandes

This interdisciplinary book provides a sociological view of the contemporary experiences of children in Southern Europe. Focusing on regions deeply affected by the 2008 economic crisis, it offers a detailed investigation into the impact ...

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Handbook on Global Social Justice

Edited by Gary Craig

In the fifty years since Rawls’ seminal work A Theory of Justice, the concept has been debated with those on the political right and left advocating very different understandings. This unique global collection, written by a group of inte...

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Austerity, Retrenchment and the Welfare State

Bent Greve

Are we living in an age of permanent austerity? In this insightful book, Bent Greve provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of welfare states since 2000, exploring the ways by which austerity can be measured and quantified. Through d...

Hardback (2020)

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The Relational Nordic Welfare State

Edited by Sakari Hänninen, Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä, Paula Saikkonen

The success of the Nordic welfare state is well known, but the key drivers of its remarkable expansion are not. This book explores the relationships between citizens that constitute the normative groundwork of Nordic societies, arguing t...

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Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification

Edited by Ronald S. Burt, Yanjie Bian, Lijun Song, Nan Lin

This insightful book explores the spread of ''social'' network imagery in three areas of sociology – social capital, social support, and China – using as its protagonist a man active in all three: Nan Lin. Social Capital, Social Support ...

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Social Policy After the Financial Crisis

Ian Greener

Incorporating insights from political economy and behavioural psychology, this radical book provides an up-to-date account of the dilemmas facing social policy this decade: where did we go wrong, and what we can do about it?

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European Welfare States and Globalization

Ali Hajighasemi

This timely book assesses how Europe’s welfare states have dealt with the challenges of globalisation and the financial crisis. It asks whether the European Union has adopted a general strategy for dealing with four major threats to the ...

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Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones, Mahmood Messkoub

This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region b...

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Globalizing Welfare

Edited by Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle, Sven E.O. Hort

From the welfare state’s origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is p...

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Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality

Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Rolph van der Hoeven

This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient d...

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