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This book provides a concise political and sociological introduction to social policy, helping readers to grasp the nature of social programs and the political struggles surrounding them. It takes a broad comparative and historical viewpoint on the United States, using an international perspective to...

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada,...

This book provides a concise political and sociological introduction to social policy, helping readers to grasp the nature of social programs and the political struggles surrounding them. It takes a broad comparative and historical viewpoint on the United States, using an international perspective to...

For generations, debating the expansion or contraction of the American welfare state has produced some of the nation's most heated legislative battles. Attempting social policy reform is both risky and complicated, especially when it involves dealing with powerful vested interests, sharp ideological disagreements, and a nervous public.

The Politics of Policy Change compares and contrasts recent developments in three major federal policy areas in the United States: welfare, Medicare, and Social Security. Daniel Beland and Alex Waddan argue that we should pay close attention to...

Covering six decades through the beginning of the current century, Beland chronicles how Social...

Gesund und glücklich sollen ihre Kinder sein, das wünschen sich alle Eltern. Doch oft sind sie unsicher, was denn nun das Beste für ihr Kind sei, und haben viele Fragen:
Woran lassen sich wirklich schwere Krankheiten erkennen, was ist die beste kindgerechte Behandlung, und in welchen Fällen kann man selbst etwas tun? Wann sind sanfte Heilmethoden angebracht, und wann wirkt Schulmedizin besser? Wie kann man Erste Hilfe leisten, und welche Fragen sind beim Thema Impfungen wichtig? Wie können Säugling und Kleinkind gesund ernährt werden, und woran sind Nahrungsmittelallergien zu...