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Towards a Spatial Social Policy: Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy by Adam Whitworth 9781447337904
RRP: $103.19$78.51Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography, the role of place in social policy scholarship and... -
Social Policy Review 29: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2017 by John Hudson 9781447336211
RRP: $110.93$85.27This edition presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past 12 months, from a group of internationally renowned authors. This collection offers a comprehensive discussion of some of the most challenging... -
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 by Glenn Muschert 9781447332886
RRP: $15.47$12.15The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors... -
Social Policy Review 28: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2016 by Menno Fenger 9781447331797
RRP: $110.93$85.27Drawing together a mix of internationally renown contributors, Social Policy Review 28 provides an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. With specially commissioned reviews of pensions, health care, conditionality and... -
Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Towards Equality and Democracy by Karel Williams 9781447331148
RRP: $110.93$85.27In this collection, innovative and eminent social and policy analysts, including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and Ted Benton, challenge the failing but still dominant ideology and policies of neo-liberalism. The editors synthesise... -
Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe by Shana Cohen 9781447331063
RRP: $34.82$26.88The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this book explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and UK that has evolved in response... -
Changing Communities: Stories of Migration, Displacement and Solidarities by Marjorie Mayo 9781447329329
RRP: $36.11$27.83Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings... -
Changing Communities: Stories of Migration, Displacement and Solidarities by Marjorie Mayo 9781447329312
RRP: $110.93$85.27Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings... -
Dimensions of Impact in the Social Sciences: The Case of Social Policy, Sociology and Political Science Research by Tina Haux 9781447324089
RRP: $55.46$43.00Impact has become a central part of the assessment criteria for academic worth. It has been adopted by many research funding bodies, and it is firmly embedded in the British Research Excellence Framework. However, a clear definition of impact remains... -
Delivering Social Welfare: Governance and Service Provision in the UK by Derek Birrell 9781447319177
RRP: $103.19$78.51As the system of governance and delivery of social welfare in the UK radically changes, this important new book argues that the extent of this change is such that it could be considered a fundamental transformation or even a revolution. It shows how a... -
Social Policy: Theory and Practice by Paul Spicker 9781447316091
RRP: $110.93$85.79Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social... -
Social Policy Review 26: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2014 by Kevin Farnsworth 9781447315568
RRP: $110.93$85.79Since the 2008 economic crisis, each year has brought new challenges to welfare states. This important annual volume with contributions from an exciting mix of internationally renowned experts within the social policy community examines the economic and... -
Inclusive Equality: A Vision for Social Justice by Sally Witcher 9781447300045
RRP: $37.40$28.75In an era of ongoing economic failures, as governments cut support to the poorest, the richest continue to get richer and those in-between are squeezed by rising costs and flagging incomes, the challenges for social cohesion - and for social justice -... -
Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy by Douglas J. Besharov 9781444335132
$95.40This book is a compilation of seminal articles on poverty and welfare in the United States that would work well as reading for graduate level courses in welfare, poverty, and evaluation. Articles from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management -... -
Social Policies and Social Control: New Perspectives on the 'Not-So-Big Society' by Malcolm Harrison 9781447310747
RRP: $110.93$85.79Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection... -
The Squeezed Middle: The Pressure on Ordinary Workers in America and Britain by Sophia Parker 9781447308935
RRP: $34.82$26.88As wages stagnate but living costs keep rising, the pressure on working people grows more intense. The issue of living standards has become one of the most urgent challenges for politicians in both Britain and America. 'The squeezed middle' brings... -
Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives by Daniel Beland 9781447306443
RRP: $110.93$85.79Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts... -
Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives by Daniel Beland 9781447306436
RRP: $36.11$27.83Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they... -
Social Policy Review 24: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2012 by Majella Kilkey 9781447304470
RRP: $110.93$85.79This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary... -
Digital, Class, Work: Before and During Covid-19 by John Michael Roberts 9781399502948
RRP: $32.24$26.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399502948Author John Michael RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy by Ian Greener 9781118816547
$37.06By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy delves deeply into one of the central questions of the field for the last 20 years. Chronicles the trend towards... -
Solutions for Black America by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543986
RRP: $18.00$13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913543986Author Dr. Jawanza KunjufuFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams) 258g -
Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: From Entitlement to Charity by Shereen Ismael 9780888644619
RRP: $38.69$31.11In 2005, 1.2 million children in Canada were living below the poverty level. This represents a 20 percent increase since 1989, the year that the federal government unanimously passed a resolution to eliminate child poverty by 2000. To understand the... -
Altered State?: Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets by Beau Kilmer 9780833050342
$24.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833050342Author Beau KilmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 249g -
Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy by Laura Zakaras 9780833041845
$37.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833041845Author Laura ZakarasFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 326g -
Displacing Democracy: Economic Segregation in America by Amy Widestrom 9780812246599
RRP: $92.88$73.96In recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income... -
Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control by Tom K. Wong 9780804793063
RRP: $86.43$69.09Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries "do what they do" when it comes to their immigration policies... -
The Global Organ Shortage: Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses by T. Randolph Beard 9780804784092
RRP: $86.43$69.09Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United... -
Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico by Judith Teichman 9780804778251
RRP: $139.32$110.60With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels... -
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada by David A. Green 9780774812078
RRP: $121.26$97.95Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged? This volume closely examines these differing views through a careful analysis of the causes, trends, and dimensions of inequality to provide... -
The Assault on Diversity: An Organized Challenge to Racial and Gender Justice by Lee Cokorinos 9780742524767
$63.34The Assault on Diversityis an essential handbook on the complex network of conservative foundations, think tanks, legal advocacy groups, and coordinating structures working to undermine the historic gains of the civil rights movement. It contains... -
Marketing Democracy: Changing Opinion about Inequality and Politics in East Central Europe by David S. Mason 9780742501539
$63.92This groundbreaking work explores popular attitudes on social, economic, and political justice in the former communist states of Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and eastern Germany. Drawing on detailed opinion surveys conducted in 13... -
China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility by Chack-kie Wong 9780739113509
RRP: $51.60$45.43One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a... -
Immigration and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland by Professor Bryan Fanning 9780719075841
RRP: $25.79$22.99Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland addresses the impact of recent, rapid social, economic, political and cultural change on Irish society. It includes chapters on citizenship and constitutional change, returned emigrants, the... -
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform by Gunnar Almgren 9780231170123
RRP: $129.00$100.53While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship, Gunnar... -
Addressing Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Human Services: Multisystemic Approaches by Rowena Fong 9780231160803
RRP: $129.00$100.53The issue of racial disproportionality in the child welfare system, particularly as it impacts African American children and families, has long been a concern to practitioners and policymakers. However, disproportionality is not limited to the African... -
Organizing Equality: Dispatches from a Global Struggle by Alison Hearn 9780228011965
RRP: $43.86$35.99Struggles for equality happen in all corners of the world. While social and economic justice movements are specific to their different national contexts, identities, and forms of oppression, collaboration and coalition building are required if we are to... -
Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada by Will Kymlicka 9780195413144
$70.05Many people think that ethnocultural politics in Canada are spiralling out of control, with ever more groups making ever greater demands. This book offers a more balanced and optimistic picture. It argues that we have learned many important lessons... -
When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics: Running the Numbers on Health Reform by Robert P. Saldin 9780190255442
RRP: $50.30$41.72From all outward appearances, the American policymaking process has been revolutionized in the last half century. Beginning in the 1970s, new safeguards were put in place to prevent the kind of free-wheeling and sometimes reckless policymaking... -
Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman 9780061965517
RRP: $14.18$14.09When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted - most notably at a bar called Stonewall in Greenwich Village - in the summer of 1969, most religious traditions condemned homosexuality; psychiatric experts labeled people who were attracted to others of...