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Overcoming population vulnerability to water scarcity in the Arab region: demographic, economic, educational and cultural factors by United Nations: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia 9789211283792
RRP: £24.95£20.26Population dynamics can contribute to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, and as a consequence to water scarcity that consists of the most significant environmental challenge in the Arab region. This report endeavors to analyse the... -
Trust, voice, and incentives: learning from local success stories in service delivery in the Middle East and North Africa by Hana Polackova Brixi 9781464804564
RRP: £33.95£28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464804564Author Hana Polackova BrixiFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications -
Widodo's Employment Creation Law, 2020: What Its Journey Tells Us about Indonesian Politics by Max Lane 9789814951913
RRP: £6.95£5.85During 2020, the Widodo government introduced a new Bill for parliamentary consideration. This was the Employment Creation Law. It was also known as the Omnibus Law as it introduced amendments to seventy-four other existing laws on a wide range of... -
Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture by Srirupa Chatterjee 9781439922521
RRP: £29.99£27.38Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture is the first volume to analyze the myriad conceptualizations of South Asian women’s body issues in film, literature, advertising, and other media. Showing how body image... -
Community and Local Governance in Australia by Paul Smyth 9780868407753
RRP: £22.95£18.72This book examines the resurgence in Australia of locality-based social policy (concerned with the spatial dimensions of disadvantage), after the political failures of the market oriented approach to regional reform. The book proposes that these trends... -
Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education: Case Studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia by Felipe Barrera-Osorio 9780821379769
RRP: £21.95£17.94While public-private partnerships in education in the United States have received a lot of attention, research on such partnerships elsewhere has been limited-even though such partnerships have been steadily gaining prominence, particularly in developing... -
The Urban Poor in Latin America by Marianne Fay 9780821360699
RRP: £21.95£17.94The urbanization of Latin America has also lead to the urbanization of its poor. Today about half of the region's poor live in cities. Yet the phenomenon of urban poverty is not one that is well studied or well understood, and policy makers across Latin... -
Financial Sector Dimensions of the Colombian Pension System by Heinz P. Rudolph 9780821371176
RRP: £12.95£10.98'Financial Sector Dimensions of the Colombian Pension System' provides an assessment of the funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for both accumulation and payout phase. It suggests that the lack of portfolio diversification... -
HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Central Asia: Country Profiles by Joana Godinho 9780821357989
RRP: £12.95£10.98HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Central Asia: Country Profiles is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The countries of Central... -
Building America's Schools and Colleges: The Federal Contribution by Willis Rudy 9780845348857
RRP: £25.95£21.04The present volume, in reviewing the history of successive presidential policies toward education, demonstrates how this field attained its contemporary position as an essential commitment of the government and people of the United States. From earliest... -
Money, Mandates and Local Control in American Public Education by Bryan Shelly 9780472035595
RRP: £26.95£21.81Pointing to the disparities between wealthy and impoverished school districts in areas where revenue depends primarily upon local taxes, reformers repeatedly call for the centralisation of school funding. Their proposals meet resistance from citizens,... -
The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada by Terry Boychuk 9780472109289
RRP: £73.00£58.95This comparison of American and Canadian health care takes a fresh and analytical approach to the topic by systematically specifying the historical dynamics that gave rise to such radically different systems of health insurance in the first instance... -
Social Science and Policy-making: A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century by David L. Featherman 9780472067695
RRP: £28.95£23.36This collection of essays examines how the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform and later, especially after World War II, as a tool in federal policymaking and policy analysis. It also uses arenas of policymaking, such as... -
Communication for rural development by Mario Acunzo 9789251079942
RRP: £114.00£93.47The Communication for Rural Development Sourcebook is a needed and timely resource to improve a wide range of FAO undertakings aimed at achieving food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural development, climate adaptation and disaster risk... -
What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism by Edward J. Latessa 9781455731213
£39.11This book offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Over the last several decades, research has clearly shown that rehabilitation efforts can be effective at reducing recidivism among criminal... -
Living Together: Mending a Fractured America by Sheila Suess Kennedy 9781089303299
RRP: £17.50£14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781089303299Author Sheila Suess KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 227g -
Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America by Diane Perrons 9781847204974
RRP: £47.95£42.98Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with reference to... -
Handbook on East Asian Social Policy by Misa Izuhara 9781782548669
RRP: £52.95£49.45Dramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies. Since the 1990s and in response to national as well as global pressure, there have been... -
The New Politics of Old Age Policy by Robert B. Hudson 9780801894916
£27.67As the aging population of the United States continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny and have sparked heated debates. This revised and updated edition of The New Politics of Old Age Policy explains the politics behind... -
Rethinking Community Policing in International Police Reform by Deniz Kocak 9781013292101
RRP: £24.95£21.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292101Author Deniz KocakFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor by LeRoy Chatfield 9780826360878
RRP: £29.95£21.06The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields... -
Reforming Healthcare: What the Public Needs to Know by Lindsay Lee Pratt 9780595292134
RRP: £9.99£7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595292134Author Lindsay Lee PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 150g -
Injecting Incentives Into the Solution of Social and Environmental Problems: Social Policy Bonds by Ronnie Horesh 9780595153749
RRP: £10.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595153749Author Ronnie HoreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversity PressPublisher iUniversity PressWeight(grams) 222g -
Social Democratic America by Lane Kenworthy 9780199322510
RRP: £23.99£19.29For decades, scholars and commentators have differentiated the US from Europe by pointing to the relative weakness of the American social welfare state. European social democracies-particularly the Nordic ones-have erected broad and deep social insurance... -
The Price of Safety: Hidden Costs and Unintended Consequences for Women in the Domestic Violence Service System by Sara Shoener 9780826521217
RRP: £69.00£55.78Specialized public resources for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are increasingly common and diverse--from protection order courts and dedicated domestic violence units in police precincts to a vast network of community-based emergency... -
The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America by Beatrix Hoffman 9780807849026
RRP: £42.95£40.21The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for... -
All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health by Merlin Chowkwanyun 9781469667676
RRP: £29.95£24.13Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In... -
Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect by Richard A. Couto 9780807848241
RRP: £46.95£38.30The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in... -
Yield For Oncoming Greatness: Capping Capitalism by Matt N Tabrizi 9780996210003
RRP: £19.95£15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996210003Author Matt N TabriziFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Thinking Hat PressPublisher Thinking Hat PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection by Leonard James Schoppa 9780801474453
RRP: £23.99£17.76Contrary to all expectations, Japan's long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation's malfunctioning economic structure. The country's basic social contract has so far proved resistant to reform, even in the face... -
Social Security and Medicare for the New Millenium by Dr Maurice Youakim 9780595141890
RRP: £8.99£6.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595141890Author Dr Maurice YouakimFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 168g -
Cooked? the Homosexualization of the Entire American Culture by Jo Coleman 9780979821219
RRP: £9.99£6.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979821219Author Jo ColemanFormat PaperbackImprint Unity PressPublisher Unity PressWeight(grams) 136g -
Sandy Hook: A Man Sold A Gun by Michael R Weisser 9780692945025
RRP: £14.95£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692945025Author Michael R WeisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Teetee PressPublisher Teetee PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics by Malcolm Dean 9781847428486
RRP: £50.00£38.95Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper's longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. Drawing on four decades of top-level Whitehall... -
Health Care and Its Costs by Carl J. Schramm 9780393956719
£19.12It seems clear though that this massive spending has not improved the health of Americans. It is clear too that as the population ages, there must me major changes in America's health care delivery system. Is it feasible for the American government to... -
Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781845426262
£117.53This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by lower fertility... -
Democracy's Hidden Heroes: Fitting Policy to People and Place by David C. Campbell 9781439924587
RRP: £21.99£18.79Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These “hidden heroes” struggle to align universal rules and compliance... -
Democracy's Hidden Heroes: Fitting Policy to People and Place by David C. Campbell 9781439924570
RRP: £71.00£60.09Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These “hidden heroes” struggle to align universal rules and compliance... -
Flak-Catchers: One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America by Lindsey Lupo 9780739138106
RRP: £97.00£89.54Flak-Catchers explores the ways in which riot commissions-the institutional bodies appointed by an executive in the aftermath of a race riot to determine a riot timeline, investigate causes, and offer prescriptions for change-have dealt with racial... -
Is the Good Book Good Enough?: Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy by David K. Ryden 9780739150597
RRP: £104.00£95.57The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They...