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Schools and Area Regeneration
ISBN: 9781861345172 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is growing interest in the role schools can play in contributing to area regeneration. Schools serving disadvantaged areas are encouraged to be outward looking, to engage with families and communities and to coordinate their efforts with those of other agencies. At the same time, however, schools are required to maintain a relentless focus on their 'core business' of teaching and learning in order to drive up pupils' attainments.This report explores the ways in which schools serving two economically and socially disadvantaged urban areas have attempted to resolve this dilemma. It...
There is growing interest in the role schools can play in contributing to area regeneration. Schools serving disadvantaged areas are encouraged to be ...
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Work: Personal Lives and Social Policy
ISBN: 9781861345202 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches, the authors explore questions that are central to our understanding of how the personal not only is shaped in and through work, but also contributes to social relations at work. Among the issues considered are: that emotional labour is increasingly central to the labour process of welfare work; vbTab]the changing relationship between ageing, work and personal lives; vbTab]the ways through which welfare-to-work policies seek to regulate personal lives. vbTab]The book seeks to further our understanding of the complex links between social policy and...
Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches, the authors explore questions that are central to our understanding of how the personal not only is shap...
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Making It Work: The Keys to Success for Young People Living Independently
ISBN: 9781861345325 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent government legislation requires local authorities to provide secure accommodation for unintentionally homeless 16- and 17-year-olds. Many local authority housing departments are therefore facing the challenge of how to adequately support this group of young people for the first time.Making it work outlines the debates and developments leading up to the recent policy changes; reports on the first research into the factors affecting the success of young people's tenancies; examines the varied experiences of young people housed by local authorities; provides a framework for objectively...
Recent government legislation requires local authorities to provide secure accommodation for unintentionally homeless 16- and 17-year-olds. Many local...
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Attitudes to Flexible Working and Family Life
ISBN: 9781861345493 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is the first to examine attitudes towards flexible working and family life. Drawing on a study of over 1500 members of the Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (AEEU) and interviews with 53 AEEU shop stewards, the report: . vbTab]examines attitudes to, and uptake of, flexible working practices among employees who work full-time;. vbTab]compares the attitudes of women and men, those who do and do not have caring responsibilities and those at different occupational levels;. vbTab]considers the ways in which workplace culture and individual circumstances determine attitudes...
This report is the first to examine attitudes towards flexible working and family life. Drawing on a study of over 1500 members of the Amalgamated Ele...
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Making Valuing People Work: Strategies for Change in Services for People with Learning Disabilities
ISBN: 9781861345721 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the findings of a two and half year research programme undertaken by the Norah Fry Research Centre, this timely report examines the strategic changes that are occurring within learning disability services as a result of the 2001 Valuing People White Paper. It offers evidence-based examples of good practice for all those involved in planning strategic changes to, or implementing change within, services for people with learning disabilities.The report is essential reading for managers and commissioners of learning disability services and all those involved in Learning Disability...
Based on the findings of a two and half year research programme undertaken by the Norah Fry Research Centre, this timely report examines the strategic...
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Making Community Participation Meaningful: A Handbook for Development and Assessment
ISBN: 9781861346148 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook is a companion volume to What works in assessing community participation? (The Policy Press, 2004) which documents the results of the road testing of two earlier frameworks for assessing community participation - Benchmarking community involvement in regeneration (Yorkshire Forward, 2000) and Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook (The Policy Press, 2000).Making community participation meaningful outlines key considerations that are necessary to ensure that community participation is effective; provides detailed sets of questions to enable stakeholders to...
This handbook is a companion volume to What works in assessing community participation? (The Policy Press, 2004) which documents the results of the ro...
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Applied Ethics and Social Problems: Moral Questions of Birth, Society and Death
ISBN: 9781861348609 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical theories to social policy has been under-explored. Until now. In "Applied ethics and social problems" Tony Fitzpatrick presents introductions to the three most influential moral philosophies: Consequentialism, Kantianism and Virtue Ethics. He then relates these to some of the most urgent questions in contemporary public debates about the future of welfare services. These include taxing unhealthy habits, drug legalisation, parental choice in...
Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical the...
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Public Policy Analysis
ISBN: 9781861349071 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its application in everyday political-administrative situations. This English version introduces supplementary illustrations and examples from the United Kingdom. Structured and written accessibly for readers who may not have an academic background in the social sciences, Public Policy Analysis applies key ideas from sociology, political science, administrative...
This book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France....
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Decentralization and Devolution in Kenya: New Approaches
ISBN: 9789966846983 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Efficient delivery of public services in Africa and other developing regions has for a long time been hindered by highly centralized government bureaucracies (Mwabu et al., 2001). In Kenya, several efforts have been made to reduce unnecessary layers of government to make service provision to the populace more effective. This book reports on recent decentralization and devolution innovations in Kenya. The volume is organized into three parts and contains a total of 12 chapters including the introduction. The chapters in Part 1 (Structures and Institutions) provide a comprehensive analysis of...
Efficient delivery of public services in Africa and other developing regions has for a long time been hindered by highly centralized government bureau...
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Efficient Designs for Judgment Analysis
ISBN: 9783639068771 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In formulating a public policy, judgment analysis enables policy makers to assess and accommodate the relative importance of differing viewpoints and concerns of competing actors as an analytic decision aid. Among the important constraints that prevent judgment analysis from being widely applied to the policy formulation process is a methodological limitation inherent in judgment analysis: It requires too many scenarios to be judged in a single judgment task. Addressing this issue, this dissertation implemented two efficient design concepts - efficient plausible design and augmented...
In formulating a public policy, judgment analysis enables policy makers to assess and accommodate the relative importance of differing viewpoints and ...
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Selecting the President's Inner Cabinet
ISBN: 9783639081008 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The European Union and Crisis Management: Policy and Legal Aspects
ISBN: 9789067042864 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the Balkan wars, the EU has worked hard to close the so-called 'capabilities-expectations gap' in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). With the institution of new political and military structures and procedures, the agreement on principles for consultation and cooperation with other international organizations, the adoption of an acquis securitaire, and the launching of twenty ESDP operations, the EU has affirmed its operational capacity in ESDP. The proliferation of the EU's institutional and operational mechanisms to manage crises on its doorstep and farther...
In the wake of the Balkan wars, the EU has worked hard to close the so-called 'capabilities-expectations gap' in the European Security and Defence Pol...
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Politics in Ireland: Convergence and Divergence in a Two-Polity Island
ISBN: 9781403989697 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major new text on Irish politics written by two leading authorities. Distinctive in providing a comprehensive treatment of Irish politics north and south, it is accessibly written and offers an up-to-date and comprehensive account of institutions, issues and developments.
A major new text on Irish politics written by two leading authorities. Distinctive in providing a comprehensive treatment of Irish politics north and ...
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780226039497 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When "Agendas and Instability in American Politics" appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the "Journal of Politics" predicted that it would "become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics." That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States. When "Agendas and Instability in American Politics" appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise an... |
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The New German Foreign Policy-Opinion Nexus: Europe in the Balance?
ISBN: 9783639090413 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the end of the Cold War and unification with the former East German GDR, Germany maintained the policy alliance paradigm with the US. However, with the 2002 opposition to the US on UN Security Council resolution 1441 on Iraq, this relationship appeared to change. Does the German decision on Iraq indicate a new foreign policy direction and what accounts for this possible change in Germany? Exogenous and endogenous factors including US policy, EU integration, Unification/Growing German self-assurance, and the opinion-policy relationship typical for advanced democratic countries are...
After the end of the Cold War and unification with the former East German GDR, Germany maintained the policy alliance paradigm with the US. However, w...
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New Welfare Spaces
ISBN: 9783639091335 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The post Keynesian shift in the welfare settlement involves the emergence of workfare as a dominant policy regime. Social benefits are increasingly conditional on the unemployed participating in activation programmes and major aspects of labour market policy delivery is devolved to local institutions. The book explores this theme through a comparison of two diverse welfare systems the UK and Denmark and two city case studies Sheffield (UK) and Aalborg (DK). The book analyses the dynamics of spatial rescaling of welfare and the politics of geographical uneven development, revealing that the...
The post Keynesian shift in the welfare settlement involves the emergence of workfare as a dominant policy regime. Social benefits are increasingly co...
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Basel I and Basel II
ISBN: 9783639091830 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Basel I and II analyzes how international regulatory policy is made within the context of implementing international standards for bank capitalization levels. The book investigates the complexity of the policy-making process using three different levels of analysis (environmental, organizational and individual). This study examines how various factors such as economic and technological pressures (environmental conditions), organizational dynamics (policy institutions) and interpersonal relationships (social exchanges) affect the regulation of international financial services.
Basel I and II analyzes how international regulatory policy is made within the context of implementing international standards for bank capitalization...
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Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
ISBN: 9780415495011 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. Attention is a crucial variable in understanding modern politics. Shifts in attention have dramatic consequences for both politics and policy decisions. This volume includes case studies of nine different political systems including the US, Canada, several European systems, and the EU itself. It asks the following... Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literatu... |
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Rethinking Asylum: History, Purpose, and Limits
ISBN: 9780521707473 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people apply for asylum in Europe, North America, and Australia. Some fear political persecution and genocide; some are escaping civil war or environmental catastrophe; others flee poverty, crime, or domestic violence. Who should qualify for asylum? Traditionally, asylum has been reserved for the targets of government persecution, but many believe that its scope should be widened to protect others exposed to serious harm. Matthew Price argues for retaining asylum's focus on persecution even as other types of refugee aid are expanded and offers a framework...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people apply for asylum in Europe, North America, and Australia. Some fear political persecution and genocide; som...
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Barack Obama in His Own Words
ISBN: 9781586487591 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear savior of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity of American politics. Despite the fact that he burst onto the national scene seemingly overnight, his name recognition has grown by leaps and bounds ever since. Barack Obama in His Own Words, a book of quotes from the Illinois Senator, allows those who aren't as familiar with his politics to learn quickly where he stands on abortion, religion, AIDS, his critics, foreign policy, Iraq, the War on...Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear savior of not only the De... |
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