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Making Social Policy Work
The Policy Press 2007; US$ 39.95Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice? These are some of the questions discussed in this collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy... more...
The Activation Dilemma
The Policy Press 2008; US$ 99.00This ambitious book explores the employment effectiveness of minimum income schemes, and provides the first comprehensive examination of its dependency on how the rights and obligations of the recipients are defined. more...
Well-Being
The Policy Press 2008; US$ 99.00This book considers what makes us happy, using a new approach that directly addresses the circumstances under which high subjective well-being is experienced, often with surprising results. more...
The Federal Nation
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 110.00This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues. more...
No Growth without Equity?
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 34.99Equity and growth are central concerns for development. They are often treated as separate questions, both in economic and social analysis and development policy. This separation is neither good theory nor good practice. This book examines the relationship between equity and growth in Mexico. The central thesis is that Mexicos poor growth performance... more...
World-Regional Social Policy and Global Governance
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 128.00This volume explores the case for and the prospects of the development of world-regional social policies as integral elements of a pluralistic, equitable and effective system of global governance. Focusing on transnational regionalism, this book examines the trajectory and crossing over of the three strands of scholarly analysis within the past... more...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 74.99Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common challenges that children and their families throughout the nation face: child care, family medical leave, special needs, parent education, preventing/addressing child maltreatment, witnessing partner violence, father involvement, and the justice system. Social scientists from multiple... more...
Human Rights from Below
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 50.00This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other. more...
A Generation of Change, a Lifetime of Difference?
The Policy Press 2009; US$ 39.95This original book provides an overview of changes in social and fiscal policy since the 1970s, using an original and unique lifetime simulation approach to analyse how changes in these policies would affect people of low median and high income living in 1979, 1997 and 2008 if they lived their whole lives under the policy rules in place in these years. more...
Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It
Encounter Books 2010; US$ 5.99The fight against ObamaCare is just beginning. The new health law, signed on March 23, 2010, destroys our constitutional rights. For the first time in history, the federal government will dictate how doctors treat their privately insured patients. That will affect you, no matter what brand-name health plan you have. Worse, some hospitals will stop... more...









