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The gender dimension of social change: The contribution of dynamic research to the study of women's life courses
ISBN: 9781861343321 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transformations that are now taking place in women's lives are of great interest to social scientists and policy makers, yet we know very little about the impact of this social change over time. This new study uses longitudinal data - information gathered over a considerable period of time - to provide new insights into the changing dynamics of lives of women today. In particular, it explores the potential of longitudinal or life course analysis as a powerful tool for appreciating the gender dimension of social life.The contributors view the data from a policy perspective and use...
The transformations that are now taking place in women's lives are of great interest to social scientists and policy makers, yet we know very little a...
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Social Policy Review 14: Developments and Debates: 2001-2002
ISBN: 9781861343789 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Policy Review 14 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. Chapters have been purposely chosen to review a varied and interesting selection of social policy developments in Britain and internationally, and to set current policy developments in a broader context of key trends and debates.
Social Policy Review 14 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals...
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Human Dignity and Welfare Systems
ISBN: 9781861344311 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pro-'workfare' governments justify their policies by claiming 'workfare' helps enhance self-esteem and promote the dignity of unemployed recipients. On the other hand, welfare activists argue that 'workfare' suppresses the dignity of unemployed persons. This book examines the concept of human dignity in this context and attempts to clarify its meaning. For the first time, it formulates a framework for evaluating the dignity of welfare recipients; uses this framework to explore the dignity of unemployed persons in four different welfare systems: UK, Sweden, China and Hong Kong and compares the...
Pro-'workfare' governments justify their policies by claiming 'workfare' helps enhance self-esteem and promote the dignity of unemployed recipients. O...
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Developing User Involvement: Working Towards User-Centred Practice in Voluntary Organisations
ISBN: 9781861345370 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is based on an action research project which involved service users, managers, staff and trustees. It identifies enablers of and barriers to increased user involvement. It also describes emerging approaches and important themes. It will help practitioners, managers and trustees plot their own journeys towards increased user involvement.The report: proposes 'user-centred user involvement', distinguishing it from 'management-centred user involvement', as a tool for analysing whose interests are served; vbTab]highlights critical factors that enable change, such as: leadership style,...
This report is based on an action research project which involved service users, managers, staff and trustees. It identifies enablers of and barriers ...
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The Changing Face of Welfare: Consequences and Outcomes from a Citizenship Perspective
ISBN: 9781861345929 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. The book applies a dynamic and change-oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Several dimensions of change are analyzed simultaneously: changes in the discipline...
There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary ap...
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Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance
ISBN: 9781861346520 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention is given to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies."Administering welfare reform" presents a critical analysis of governance practices in welfare administration and examines shifts in the participants, practices and processes of welfare administration. It presents original empirical case...
While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical cas...
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Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking Fairness in Diverse Societies
ISBN: 9781861349347 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social justice is a contested term, incorporated into the language of widely differing political positions. Those on the left argue that it requires intervention from the state to ensure equality, at least of opportunity; those on the right believe that it can be underpinned by the economics of the market place with little or no state intervention. To date, political philosophers have made relatively few serious attempts to explain how a theory of social justice translates into public policy.This important book, drawing on international experience and a distinguished panel of political...
Social justice is a contested term, incorporated into the language of widely differing political positions. Those on the left argue that it requires i...
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Social Welfare and Religion in the Middle East: A Lebanese Perspective
ISBN: 9781861349538 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As religion continues to regain its centrality in both academic and policy circles around the world, this book presents a new framework which examines the complex social and political dynamics shaping social welfare in the Middle East. Based on an in-depth study of the major Muslim and Christian religious welfare organisations in Lebanon (including Hezbollah), and drawing upon supplementary research conducted in Iran, Egypt and Turkey, the book argues that religion is providing sophisticated solutions to the major social and economic problems of the Middle East. It will be of use to students...
As religion continues to regain its centrality in both academic and policy circles around the world, this book presents a new framework which examines...
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Adequacy of Retirement Income After Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe: Eight Country Studies
ISBN: 9780821377819 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All countries in the former transition economies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe have undertaken public pension reforms of varying depth and orientation, often with the support of the World Bank. Although the reformed public pension schemes provide broad benefit adequacy, in most cases additional measures are needed to achieve fiscal sustainability in an aging society. 'Adequacy of Retirement Income after Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe: Eight Country Studies' assesses the benefit adequacy of the reformed pension systems for eight countries--Bulgaria, the...
All countries in the former transition economies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe have undertaken public pension reforms of varying depth and ...
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Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge
ISBN: 9780815703112 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working Longer investigates the prospects for moving the average retirement age from 63, the current figure, to 66.
Working Longer investigates the prospects for moving the average retirement age from 63, the current figure, to 66.
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Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
ISBN: 9780061715648 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who Turned Out the Lights? is an entertaining and nonpartisan guide to the current U.S. energy crisis from Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, coauthors of the breakout bestseller Where Does the Money Go? At once light-hearted and fun--like Jon Stewart's America: The Book and Stephen Colbert's I am America (and So Can You )--and deadly serious, Who Turned Out the Lights? helps readers understand what's really at stake in the energy debate, an intelligent answer to the partisan Capital Hill squabbling between the "Drill, Baby, Drill" and "Every...
Who Turned Out the Lights? is an entertaining and nonpartisan guide to the current U.S. energy crisis from Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, coaut...
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The Peter Townsend reader
ISBN: 9781847424051 / Angielski / Twarda / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday. It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of his work is exceptional, including research on the UK's inner city deprivation; older people contemplating retirement; exclusion on the basis of class, race, gender, age, and disability; individual versus state responsibility for health; the social purposes and viability of residential institutions and hospitals; child and extended family development; and persistent poverty. This reader is a collection of his most distinctive work. The Peter Townsend Reader looks...
In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday. It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of his work is except...
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The Un Secretariat's Influence on the Evolution of Peacekeeping
ISBN: 9780230572492 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a unique analytical framework, the UN Secretariat's Influence on the Evolution of Peacekeeping reveals deep insights in the UN's peacekeeping decision-making and shows that even international bureaucracies with limited autonomy can shape international politics.
Using a unique analytical framework, the UN Secretariat's Influence on the Evolution of Peacekeeping reveals deep insights in the UN's peacekeeping de...
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Social Policy Review 16: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2004
ISBN: 9781847424716 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease on life and has been reorganized to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and internationally. The new look of this edition is designed to provide readers with up-to-date information about developments and changes in core UK social policy areas. Additional chapters provide in-depth analyses of topical issues from an international perspective, while the new themed section examines the changes that have taken place in UK welfare since the first Thatcher government came to power twenty-five years ago.
Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease on life and has been reorganized to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and i...
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Social Policy Review 15: UK and International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781847424709 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. This volume combines issues such as globalization, Europe and pensions with examination of the current and historical contexts of social policy. Chapters have been purposely chosen to review a varied and interesting selection of topical social policy developments and to set these in a broader context of key trends and debates.
Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals...
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Pensions Health Retirement
ISBN: 9780674048669 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a careful analysis of pension data collected by the Health and Retirement Study, a unique survey of people over the age of fifty conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Aging. The authors studied pensions as they evolve over individuals' work lives and into retirement: how pension coverage and plans change over a lifetime, how many pensions workers have by the time they retire and what these pensions are worth, what pensions contribute to individual retirement incomes, and how trends and policy changes affect retirement plans. The book... This book presents a careful analysis of pension data collected by the Health and Retirement Study, a unique survey of people over the age of fifty... |
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Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis
ISBN: 9780062023476 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A book that manages to be entertaining and irreverent while serving as an informative primer on a subject that is crucial to the future of all Americans."
--New York Times Before you vote in a national election, you should ask yourself: Where Does the Money Go? The acclaimed and essential work by Scott Biddle and Jean Johnson has been updated to reflect the recent financial crisis and the sweeping legislation passed by the Obama administration in its first years. Nonpartisan and well-balanced, Where Does the Money Go? is a candid, eye-opening, and... "A book that manages to be entertaining and irreverent while serving as an informative primer on a subject that is crucial to the future of all Americ...
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Do Investment Regulations Compromise Pension Fund Performance?: Evidence from Latin America
ISBN: 9780821344880 / Angielski / Twarda / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Draconian' regulations have created distortions in asset management, limited opportunities for diversification, and, as a consequence have hampered, the performance of pension funds. This volume shows that the return to retirement assets, expected replacement rates, and, hence, the net welfare gain from pension reform is lower under a draconian regulatory framework than under a more liberal pension fund investment regime. Important policy conclusions of the paper are that existing regulatory regimes should be liberalized as soon as possible to allow pension fund investments in a wider array...
'Draconian' regulations have created distortions in asset management, limited opportunities for diversification, and, as a consequence have hampered, ...
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New Policies for Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions: Industrial Organization Models and Investment Products
ISBN: 9780821382769 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mandatory defined contribution pension markets are present in a growing number of countries around the world. But despite their popularity, policymakers continue to struggle with two key policy concerns. On the one hand, a number of design shortcomings encourages pension firms to charge high administrative fees. On the other hand, the global crisis that started in 2007 has reignited the debate on whether pension participants bear excessive investment risk. Both are valid policy concerns as their incidence can imply higher than expected levels of poverty among old age individuals. Both...
Mandatory defined contribution pension markets are present in a growing number of countries around the world. But despite their popularity, policymake...
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Human Security: From Concept to Practice - Case Studies from Northeast India and Orissa
ISBN: 9789814324892 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human security is a paradigm for security, development and justice. This book suggests practical applications of the human security concept, such as human security mapping, the human security governance index and human security impact assessment. It uses Northeast India and Orissa as case studies.
Human security is a paradigm for security, development and justice. This book suggests practical applications of the human security concept, such as h...
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