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The Immigrant Queen Peter Taylor-Gooby 9781836280606
Booksplease Price: $23.77Hated as a foreigner, despised as a woman, I became First Lady of Athens Aspasia falls passionately in love with Pericles, the leading statesman of Fifth Century Athens. Artists, writers and... -
Risk in Social Science by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780199285969
Booksplease Price: $78.30This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology, although it will also be useful... -
Welfare States under Pressure by Peter Taylor-Gooby
Booksplease Price: $120.64Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has... -
Reframing Social Citizenship by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780199546718
Booksplease Price: $66.86Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and... -
Risk, Trust and Welfare by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780333764930
Booksplease Price: $52.10This book contains new theoretical discussion and new empirical evidence on the way people think about and cope with the risks and uncertainties of modern life. The national surveys cover areas... -
Reframing Social Citizenship by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780199546701
Booksplease Price: $79.71Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and... -
New Paradigms in Public Policy by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780197264935
Booksplease Price: $73.92This book reviews some of the most challenging developments in British society as they are understood by policy-makers and by academics. The key point is that academic debates identify a range of... -
Public Opinion, Ideology and State Welfare Peter Taylor-Gooby 9781041131205
Booksplease Price: $139.47Public Opinion, Ideology and State Welfare (1985) provides a comprehensive explanation of the patterns of ideas about the welfare state held by both academics and by the general public. It argues... -
Choice and Public Policy: The Limits to Welfare Markets by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780333731314
Booksplease Price: $58.45Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets. Choice and Public... -
Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9781403993175
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $56.13The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy... -
Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare: Social Policy Directions in Uncertain Times by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9783030093273
Booksplease Price: $91.44This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues,... -
New Risks, New Welfare: The Transformation of the European Welfare State by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780199267279
Booksplease Price: $80.90This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative understanding of social policy in Europe. New social risks arise from... -
Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare: Social Policy Directions in Uncertain Times by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9783319757827
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.79This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues,... -
After Austerity: Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780198790273
Booksplease Price: $52.48European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented... -
After Austerity: Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780198790266
Booksplease Price: $136.74European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented... -
The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9781137328106
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous... -
Making a European Welfare State?: Convergences and Conflicts Over European Social Policy by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9781405121163
RRP: $28.06Booksplease Price: $26.82This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly... -
Dependency Culture Hartley Dean 9780745012261
Booksplease Price: $86.78First published in 1992. In this volume the authors discuss that although the idea that the main object of social security is to regulate the lives of poor people rather than to relieve their poverty... -
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions by Raymond Plant 9780415557931
Booksplease Price: $75.41This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social... -
The End of the Welfare State?: Responses to State Retrenchment by Stefan Svallfors 9780415463263
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent... -
The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis by Peter Starke 9780230285255
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment... -
Mapping Welfare Attitudes in East Asia: Cultural and Political Trajectories by Trude Sundberg 9781447357025
RRP: $103.19Booksplease Price: $85.20East Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing, creating an increasing need for research that can help to establish sustainable and legitimate welfare systems. This original... -
The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK by Lutz Leisering 9780230272057
Booksplease Price: $59.70Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The... -
European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment by Giuliano Bonoli 9780745618111
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.08European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses... -
Major Thinkers in Welfare: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective Vic George (Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent) 9781447305842
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.88This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues, and... -
Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy: Popular Deservingness Opinions and their Interaction with Welfare State Policies by Tijs Laenen 9781839101885
Booksplease Price: $143.32This important book builds a bridge between the literature on popular welfare deservingness and social welfare policies. It examines the relationship between the two, exploring the close... -
The Failure of Anglo-liberal Capitalism by C. Hay 9781137360502
Booksplease Price: $54.64Colin Hay argues that the crisis in which we are still mired is best seen as a crisis of growth and not as a crisis of debt. It is a crisis of and for an excessively liberalised form of capitalism... -
Introduction to Social Policy Analysis: Illuminating Welfare by Stephen Sinclair 9781447313915
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.03In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences... -
Introduction to Social Policy Analysis: Illuminating Welfare Stephen Sinclair (Glasgow Caledonian University) 9781447313922
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.11In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences... -
Ending child poverty: Popular welfare for the 21st century? Robert Walker (Department of Social Policy) 9781861341990
Booksplease Price: $29.71In the Beveridge Lecture, delivered on 18 March 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his government to abolishing child poverty within 20 years. He concluded that the present-day welfare state... -
Major thinkers in welfare: Contemporary issues in historical perspective by Professor Vic George 9781847427069
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.43This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues, and... -
Public and Private Social Policy: Health and Pension Policies in a New Era by Daniel Beland 9780230527331
Booksplease Price: $60.09Exploring the increasing involvement of the private sector in social policy, this collection examines the complex relationship between the public and private sectors from an international... -
Remaking Community?: New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods Andrew Wallace 9781138251540
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $43.51New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance. An important example of this was how... -
Remaking Community?: New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods by Andrew Wallace 9780754678540
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.98New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance. An important example of this was how...