Social Services & Welfare 100

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison. Half will be back in prison within just three years. Many former prisoners who reoffend return home to their o……続きを見る

This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures “in” and “for” agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions ……続きを見る

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life? This edited collection examines various dimensions of wellbeing among older people, including its measurement; social, environmental and ……続きを見る

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing. The issue of public……続きを見る

This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. It retraces debates on war from the formation of European states, the rise of Mercantilism, to Colonialism, Imperia……続きを見る

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a socially constructed category, it combines……続きを見る

This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the policy-specific learning process. In so doing, it provides insights int……続きを見る

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation. At the level of super-states, the constituen……続きを見る

Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state. In this book, Åsbjørn Melkevik corrects this common reading of the classical liberal tradition by introd……続きを見る

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to per……続きを見る

America's health care system is at a crossroads, faced with rising costs, quality concerns, and a lack of patient control. Some blame market forces. Yet many troubles can be traced directly to perva……続きを見る

This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of it……続きを見る

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people’s lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people’s everyday unde……続きを見る

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For genera……続きを見る

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on LGBTQ-parent families. The new edition of the textbook provides updated information and expands on the range and depth of current researc……続きを見る

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The indus……続きを見る

Ein wichtiges Buch für alle, die mit Pflege zu tun haben - von einem Altenpfleger, der weiß, wovon er spricht. Die Altenpflege hat einen schlechten Ruf. Sie wird mit gehetztem Personal, schlechtem E……続きを見る

The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child psychology, part Cowan's own story, and part that of……続きを見る

Il libro, curato dal direttore di Harvard Business Review Italia, Enrico Sassoon, è composto da circa 20 saggi suddivisi in cinque sezioni che toccano tutti i principali temi di primario interesse p……続きを見る

This bold new textbook represents a significant step forward in social policy teaching by combining comparative and global perspectives. Introducing readers to a wide spread of international challen……続きを見る

This second edition of a widely respected textbook is one of the few resources available to provide an overview of human need, as a key concept in the social sciences. Taking an approach encompassin……続きを見る

La intervención social se ha consolidado en las últimas décadas como un campo particular de acción encaminado a modificar la realidad, en particular la de las capas de población más desfavorecidas y……続きを見る

This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups ……続きを見る

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence. The core idea is that need-based distributive justice may have so……続きを見る

Este libro presenta diferentes experiencias de análisis de las prácticas profesionales (APP) del campo social y educativo en Francia. A partir de la exposición del trabajo realizado por Beatrice Bos……続きを見る

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South. Without the safety net of……続きを見る

De fleste af os har vores kendskab til politiafhøringer fra tv-serier og film, hvor barske og højtråbende politibetjente med alle midler presser den sigtede til at tilstå. Men hvordan foregår en afh……続きを見る

This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation. The resulting difference in……続きを見る

This book focuses on neglected skin diseases and conditions in resource-poor countries through the lens of livelihoods. These diseases, when neglected, not only affect the skin, but also joint movem……続きを見る

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfa……続きを見る