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The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK
ISBN: 9780230272057 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The contributing authors compare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyse the regulatory role of the EU.
Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise t...
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201,72 zł |
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Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland
ISBN: 9781847427038 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical engagement with the state of social policy a decade after Scotland s devolution in the UK, this book focuses on the successive Scottish administration s key vision of greater social justice as it pertains to the analysis of its social policy. Arguing that such analysis must be located in wider debates about social justice, it shows how the devolution process has affected the making, implementation, and impact of Scotland s social programs. Looking at a range of topics, including income inequality, work and welfare, criminal justice, housing, education, and health, the contributors...
A critical engagement with the state of social policy a decade after Scotland s devolution in the UK, this book focuses on the successive Scottish adm...
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436,43 zł |
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Gypsies and Travellers: Empowerment and Inclusion in British Society
ISBN: 9781847428950 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now more than ever the issues of accommodation, education, health care, employment, and social exclusion for British Gypsy and Traveller communities need to be addressed. This book looks at Gypsies and Travellers in British society, touching on topics such as media and political representation, power, justice, and the impact of European initiatives for inclusion. In doing so, it offers important new insights for students, academics, policy makers, journalists, service providers, and others working with these groups.
Now more than ever the issues of accommodation, education, health care, employment, and social exclusion for British Gypsy and Traveller communitie... |
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436,43 zł |
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Religion and Faith-Based Welfare: From Wellbeing to Ways of Being
ISBN: 9781847423900 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution to social policy debates.Rana Jawad examines the workings of religious welfare organizations from the world s major faiths, offeringa critical overview of the role religious values, actors, and institutions have on social programs. Combining historical discussions of the relationship between religion and social policy in Britain with a comparative theoretical discussion that covers continental Europe and North America, she brings a host of perspectives together, arguing for an analytical shift in the definition of... This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution to social policy debates.Rana Jawad examines the workings of religious... |
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436,43 zł |
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Civilizing the Public Sphere: Distrust, Trust and Corruption
ISBN: 9781137030412 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner.
Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the pub...
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201,72 zł |
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Inclusion and Resilience: The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780821397718 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PMThe 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 on feasible policy options to make SSNs in the Middle East and North Africa more effective and innovative. The first chapter, 'a framework for SSN reform,' describes and illustrates the reasons for the region's growing need for SSN reform and...
PMThe report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their e...
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141,40 zł |
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AARP: America's Largest Interest Group and its Impact
ISBN: 9781440834103 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow, special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with elderly parents and grandparents--and those who will comprise the older generations of the future. The most comprehensive volume ever written about AARP, the book begins with a chapter on the organization's history, going back to its founding in 1958 and its roots in the National... AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow, special interests ... |
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256,73 zł |
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Subjects of Security: Domestic Effects of Foreign Policy in the War on Terror
ISBN: 9781137274359 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
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 o...
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201,72 zł |
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Shaping South East Europe's Security Community for the Twenty-First Century: Trust, Partnership, Integration
ISBN: 9781137010193 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for So...
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201,72 zł |
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The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future
ISBN: 9780062083531 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America today--a fearless reformer whom The Atlantic named one of the 100 most influential figures in American history. In these troubling times of intractable fiscal and social distress, Nader offers a new program to help rescue America: The Seventeen Solutions. His powerful, paradigm-shifting proposals address some of the most pressing concerns in our country today--from corporate crime to tax reform to health care and...
Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive vo...
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69,13 zł |
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Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State: Challenges of Reintegration
ISBN: 9780230290990 / Angielski / Twarda / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed c...
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201,72 zł |
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Minimum Income Protection in Flux
ISBN: 9780230348134 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do existing minimum income protection schemes succeed in adequately protecting citizens, be it whether they are excluded from work, working, retired, or having children? Drawing on in-depth and up-to-date institutional data from across Europe and the US, this volume details the reality of minimum income protection policies over time. Including contributions from leading scholars in the field, each chapter provides a systematic cross-national...
The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do e...
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443,82 zł |
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The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do about It
ISBN: 9781137328106 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved.
This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It...
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201,72 zł |
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On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Freemasons and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France
ISBN: 9781428632103 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,91 zł |
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Gypsies and Travellers in Housing: The Decline of Nomadism
ISBN: 9781847428738 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the increasing--and increasingly enforced--settlement of Gypsies and Travellers into conventional housing. The authors evaluate a range of Gypsy- and Traveller-related policies in areas such as social housing, community cohesion and regeneration, and race relations and equality. Analyzing the impact of these policies, they offer an unprecedented look into the changing culture and dynamics of ethnic Gypsy and Traveller communities. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the tenacity and adaptability of cultural formations in the face of policy-driven constraints that are...
This book examines the increasing--and increasingly enforced--settlement of Gypsies and Travellers into conventional housing. The authors evaluate a r...
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436,43 zł |
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'An Offer You Can't Refuse': Workfare in International Perspective
ISBN: 9781861341952 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decade, developed welfare states have witnessed a pendulum swing away from unconditional entitlement to social assistance, towards greater emphasis on obligations and conditions tied to the receipt of financial aid. Through administrative reforms, conditions of entitlement have been narrowed. With the introduction of compulsory work for recipients the contract between the state and uninsured unemployed people is changing.The product of research funded by the European Union, this book compares 'work-for-welfare' - or workfare - programmes objectively for the first time. It...
In the last decade, developed welfare states have witnessed a pendulum swing away from unconditional entitlement to social assistance, towards greater...
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164,25 zł |
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The Changing Face of Welfare: Consequences and Outcomes from a Citizenship Perspective
ISBN: 9781861345912 / Angielski / Miękka / 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.
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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159,12 zł |
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Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking Fairness in Diverse Societies
ISBN: 9781861349330 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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128,31 zł |
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The Un Secretariat's Influence on the Evolution of Peacekeeping
ISBN: 9781349364190 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 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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443,82 zł |
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Young People and Social Policy in Europe: Dealing with Risk, Inequality and Precarity in Times of Crisis
ISBN: 9781349475292 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on the lives of young Europeans, examining both the precarity of youth transitions, and the function of welfare state policies.
This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of b...
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201,72 zł |
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