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East Asian Welfare Modelby Roger Goodman; Gordon White; Huck-ju Kwon
Routledge 1998; US$ 68.95Offers the first broad-ranging study of the development and implementation of various welfare systems in East Asia, unfolding the reality behind the rhetoric in this important area. more...
Social Security Reform in Advanced Countriesby Toshihiro Ihori; Toshiaki Tachibanaki
Routledge 2002; US$ 200.00This book brings together internationally-renowned scholars to evaluate the effect of recent social security reforms in advanced countries (pension programmes in particular) and to suggest policy reforms for the future. more...
Who Speaks for the Poorby R. Allen Hays
Garland Science 2001; US$ 44.95This book addresses the central question of how the interests of the poor gain representation in the political process by examining the interest group system. more...
The Politics of Pension Reformby Giuliano Bonoli
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 34.00European pension systems are increasingly under pressure. In this book Giuliano Bonoli examines policymakers' efforts to cope in the context of public support for existing pension schemes and the implications of an ageing population. The book compares and assesses the process of pension policy-making in the UK, France and Switzerland. more...
The Plot Against Social Securityby Michael A. Hiltzik
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Relentless and ominous, the drumbeat echoes across the land: Social Security is on the verge of bankruptcy. These repeated warnings have become a dismal article of faith for the millions of Americans who pay Social Security taxes and expect to collect benefits someday. But they are flatly untrue. Social Security today is on a stronger financial footing than it has been for decades. The Plot Against Social Security will explain who is really behind the efforts to reform this system and will show that the most frequently proposed fixincreased privatizationwill damage it beyond repair by undermining retirement security for generations to come. Award-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik also offers a clear set of remedies... more...
How Social Security Picks Your Pocketby Joseph Fried
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 28.95Social Security is no bargain, but few Americans are aware of the staggering waste and inequities built into the system. This easy-to-read, opinionated and thoroughly documented book expands the debate to the areas of disability abuse, fraud, and inequita more...
Critical Cultural Policy Studiesby Justin Lewis; Toby Miller
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 129.95Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader brings together classic statements and contemporary views that illustrate how everyday culture is as much a product of policy and economic determinants as it is of creative and consumer impulses. more...
Security Studiesby Paul D. Williams
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 49.95Organized around the key themes apparent in contemporary debates taking place within the field of Security Studies, this is the most comprehensive textbook available on the topic. more...
Social Programs of Swedenby Albert H. Rosenthal
University of Minnesota Press 1967; US$ 67.50In his forward to this book, Marquis Childs, author of the classic work Sweden: The Middle Way, comments: There has been a great deal of emotional writing about the effort of the labor government in Stockholm to regulate capitalism and provide a decent s more...
Social Security as a Human Rightby Eibe Riedel
Springer 2007; US$ 139.00An International Expert Workshop on the Right to Social Security was held in April 2005 at the German Institute for Human Rights, whose purpose was to highlight specific issues of the right to social security. This volume provides an insight into the challenges on social security as a human right. more...









