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Just Institutions Matterby Bo Rothstein
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 42.00In this book Bo Rothstein seeks to defend the universal welfare state against a number of important criticisms which it has faced in recent years. He combines genuine philosophical analysis of normative issues concerning what the state ought to do with em more...
Social Democracy and Rational Choiceby Henry Milner
Routledge 1994; US$ 170.00This will appeal to readers interested in comparative institutional and policy analysis, and in particular to those concerned with the future of the welfare state and the latest developments in the Nordic countries. more...
The Transformation of Welfare States?by Nick Ellison
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 44.95Provides a 'political sociology' of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. This work focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes, and is of interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Sociology and Social Policy. more...
Welfare Disciplineby Sanford F. Schram
Temple University Press 2005; US$ 24.95Rethinking the American understanding of poverty, welfare, and the language used to describe them more...
Welfare and Wellbeingby Pete Alcock; Howard Glennerster; Ann Oakley
The Policy Press 2001; US$ 41.95Despite its continuing relevance to current social policy issues both in the UK and internationally, much of Richard Titmuss's work is now out of print. This new book brings together a selection of his most important writings on a range of key social policy issues, together with commentary on these from contemporary experts in the field. This book has a companion volume, Private complaints and public health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service edited by Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker (The Policy Press, 2004). more...
Welfare States in Transitionby Gosta Esping-Andersen
Sage Publications Ltd. 1996; US$ 63.00This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the current welfare state crisis and highlight evolving trends for welfare policy. Different welfare states are shown to manifest different forms of crisis. Among the symptoms of crisis, Welfare States in Transition suggests that the effect of popluation ageing is exaggerated, and an at least equally fundamental challenge lies in the revolution of the modern... more...
Major Thinkers in Welfareby Vic George
The Policy Press 2010; US$ 99.00Focusing on a range of welfare issues this book examines the views, values and perceptions of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century, including Plato, St Aquinas, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft and Marx. more...
The Assessment Center Handbook for Police and Fire Personnelby Charles D. Hale
Charles C Thomas 2010; US$ 36.95Assessment centers continue to be widely used as the preferred and accepted manner of evaluating potential members of police and fire departments as a part of their standardized promotional examination process. This third edition of this most successful book expands upon the concepts and principles of the first two editions and introduces new innovations. Chapters have been extensively edited and reformatted. New sections have been added covering the tactical EMS problem and public education exercises. An entirely new chapter, âBest Practices in Assessment Center Exercises,â provides many examples of how candidates can achieve superior performance in many different kinds of assessment exercises. An additional... more...
Diminishing Welfareby Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 42.00Particularly in the 1990s, social welfare programs have been cut back in a number of countries. Indeed, the phrases ending welfare as we know it or dismantling the welfare state have been used to describe this trend. In this analysis by well-recognized social welfare scholars, the nature and extent of changes in social welfare programs in key industrial or post-industrial countries is scrutinized.||Determining if and how social welfare and employment rospects have been cut back in the United States, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Japan helps to identify the population groups hardest hit by cutback. In the United States, for example, poor, single-mother families have suffered major reductions in income... more...
Selbstmanagementby Anita Bischof; Klaus Bischof
Haufe Lexware Verlag 2009; US$ 3.20Hauptbeschreibung Selbstmanagement ist eine Schlüsselkompetenz, die den Alltag erleichtert. Dieser TaschenGuide hilft Ihnen, den Arbeitstag in den Griff zu bekommen und Ihre beruflichen Ziele zu erreichen - mit Checklisten, vielen Tipps und einfachen Lösungen für die Praxis. INHALTE:- Wie Sie sich selbst besser einschätzen.- Wie Sie Ihre Ziele finden und verwirklichen können.- Wie Sie Ihre Zeit richtig managen.- Wie Sie effektiv mit anderen zusammenarbeiten. more...









