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Critical Cultural Policy Studies
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95Critical 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...
Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japan?s involvement in Asia-Pacific security multilateralism after the end of the Cold War with special reference to the ARF. Giving an in-depth account of new developments in Japan?s... more...
Social Security as a Human Right
Springer 2006; US$ 129.99An 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...
Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or a privatized system of personal accounts. In general, centralized systems offer low administrative costs, but are potentially subject to political mismanagement and appropriation. Privatized account systems,... more...
Privatizing Social Security
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 37.50This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing... more...
The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Social security is the largest and perhaps the most popular program run by the federal government. Given the projected increase in both individual life expectancy and sheer number of retirees, however, the current system faces an eventual overload. Alternative proposals have emerged, ranging from reductions in future benefits to a rise in taxrevenue... more...
Conflict and Development
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 42.95Over the past decade, a new awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict reconstruction. This book explores the complexity of the links between violent conflict (usually civil wars) and development,... more...
Grounding Security
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00In examining mechanisms currently conceived as affording security, Weisbrod considers both emotional and financial components such as the role of the family and insurance. The book also explores the use of state power in its provision of security for in more...
Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 45.00Our current social security system operates on a pay-as-you-go basis; benefits are paid almost entirely out of current revenues. As the ratio of retirees to taxpayers increases, concern about the high costs of providing benefits in a pay-as-you-go system has led economists to explore other options. One involves "prefunding," in which a person's withholdings... more...
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 45.00The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in life styles enable retirees to live longer than ever before, the stress on national budgets will increase substantially. In Social Security Programs and Retirement around... more...









