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Social Security

  • Shaping South East Europe's Security Community for the Twenty-First Centuryby Sharyl Cross; Savo Kentera; Radovan Vukadinovic; R. Craig Nation

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00

    In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe. They attempt to conceptualize and realize security as a cooperative endeavour for collective good, in contrast to security narratives driven by power and national egotism. more...

  • Subjects of Securityby Robin Cameron

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00

    This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Cameron develops an original framework which inverts the traditional analysis of foreign policy in order to interpret its impact upon subject formation through everyday practises of security and social regulation. more...

  • The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About Itby Peter Taylor-Gooby

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 30.00

    The NHS, education, social care, local government, employment services, social housing and benefits for the poor face major challenges from a government determined to entrench a radical and divisive liberalism permanently in British public life. This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts that bear most heavily on women, families... more...

  • From Bin Laden to Facebookby Maria Ressa

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2013; US$ 46.00

    Maria A Ressa has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal ( High-Profile Journalist Reshapes Her Role in Terrorism Fight )The two most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia — a Malaysian and a Singaporean — are on the run in the Philippines, but they manage to keep their friends and family updated on Facebook. Filipinos connect with... more...

  • China's Pension Systemby Mark C. Dorfman; Robert Holzmann; Philip O'Keefe

    World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 24.99

    Comprehensive reform of China’s pension and social security system is an essential element of achieving its objectives of a harmonious society and sustainable development. Over the past few years, the Government has considered various options and initiated several significant measures. In 2009 the authorities established a national framework for... more...

  • Municipal Policing in the European Unionby Daniel Donnelly

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00

    The book applies a model of municipal policing to compare a number of police systems in the European Union suggesting that in the future local communities will have some form of police enforcement mechanism that will not always include the sworn police officer. more...

  • Inclusion and Resilienceby Joana Silva; Victoria Levin

    World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 24.99

    The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific analysis; and (b) open up and inform a debate... more...

  • Minimum Income Protection in Fluxby Ive Marx; Kenneth Nelson

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    Drawing on data from across Europe and the US, this book comparatively analyzes the current state of minimum income protection policies and explores the prospects for their improvement. more...

  • Carers and their rightsby Luke Clements; Dr Hywel Francis

    Cargo Publishing (UK) Ltd 2012; US$ 7.29

    Carers and their Rights is Carers UK?s definitive guide to carers? rights to support from health and social services, as they care unpaid for ill, frail or disabled friends or family members. Written by solicitor and community care law expert Professor Luke Clements, this fifth edition includes updates based on a number of statutory and case law developments... more...

  • Introduction to Social Securityby John Ditch

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95

    Social Security forms a major area of government policy and social expenditure. Government activity in this area impacts directly on all citizens, and consequently social security policy is the focus for much debate. People are affected by social security whether by funding it through taxation, or using it when claiming unemployment or other benefits.... more...