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Transforming Private Landlords
Wiley 2010; US$ 120.00This book explores the origins, extent and implications of this revival in the fortunes of private landlordism. It presents an in-depth, scholarly analysis of private landlords, the rationales for and ways in which governments have sought to revitalise investment in residential lettings, and their success in doing so. It also assesses the extent to... more...
Joint Approaches to Social Policy
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 91.00This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review... more...
Migration and welfare in the new Europe
The Policy Press 2011; US$ 99.00Providing innovative insights, this book moves the debate on migration and integration policies in the enlarged European Union and its member states onto new terrain. more...
Social policy in China
The Policy Press 2008; US$ 39.95This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China's welfare polices since its conception of an open-door policy of 1978. more...
Justice beyond 'Just Us'
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 89.95Notions of justice and community in the United States are increasingly challenged by trends like immigration, multiculturalism, and economic inequality. Gregory W. Streich offers a fresh re-examination of the normative ideas of justice and community by exposing the ways in which notions of justice and community overlap in American politics and public... more...
Thwarting Consumer Choice
AEI Press 2010; US$ 28.99In Thwarting Consumer Choice, Gary E. Marchant, Guy A. Cardineau, and Thomas P. Redick contend that mandatory GM labeling laws actually harm consumers by pushing genetically modified foods off the market. more...
The Risk of Social Policy?
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 130.00The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections. This book contributes to the existing literature... more...
Richard Crossman
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 84.00"Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!" - Richard Crossman, "Diaries Vol. 1". As a politician and personality, Richard Crossman was anything but the deferential public servant he mocked so concisely. This revealing biography of the dedicated radical Labour politician offers the most complete picture of his colourful... more...
Relationship-Based Social Work
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2010; US$ 32.95This book provides a thorough guide to relationship-based practice in social work, communicating the theory using illustrative case studies and offering a model for practice. This book will be an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and post-graduate social work students, practitioners on post-qualifying courses and all social work professionals. more...
Richard Crossman and the Welfare State
I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 89.00Generally remembered as a notorious diarist rather than a serious political figure, Richard Crossman's imposing presence in Harold Wilson's Cabinet during the 1964-1970 Labour governments proved, not least to himself, a disappointment. However, in this new reassessment, Stephen Thornton rescues Crossman's political achievements from obscurity.... more...









