Comparative Social Policy
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Health Care, the Market and Consumer Choice
Alain C. Enthoven
In this well-documented book, Alain Enthoven develops the ideas of consumer choice and managed competition of alternative health care financing and delivery systems, as well as describing ways to improve quality and reduce the cost of he... -
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Party Politics and Social Welfare
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Silke van Dyk, Martin Roggenkamp
‘This is a well-researched and very informative study of the relative impact of social democracy and Christian democracy on welfare state reform in the past three decades. . . I highly recommend it, because the book makes a great contrib... -
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Governance of Welfare State Reform
Edited by Irene Dingeldey, Heinz Rothgang
‘A timely and empirically grounded contribution to the literature on welfare governance. Examining internationalisation, regionalisation, privatisation and re-regulation, the case study chapters open up important questions about convergi... -
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Analysing Social Policy
Edited by Greg Marston, Catherine McDonald
This book brings together leading international researchers to discuss governmental approaches to analysing social policies.eBook:Find out more$47.20
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Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland
This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...eBook:Find out more$47.20
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Young Workers, Globalization and the Labor Market
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfield, Sandra Buchholz, Erzsébet Bukodi, Karin Kurz
Underpinned by the fact that the globalization process and the subsequent increased level of market uncertainty have paved the way for employment flexibility in modern societies, this book examines the labor market chances of young adult...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization, Uncertainty and Men’s Careers
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Melinda Mills, Fabrizio Bernardi
Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work and careers. This book explores whether the forces of globa...eBook:Find out more$70.40
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Home Care for Ageing Populations
Martha Doyle, Virpi Timonen
‘In a world where there is little doubt that the demand for formal care services is set to increase significantly, this book is a timely addition to the literature of ageing in place, comparing home care delivery policies and services fo... -
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Competing Claims in Work and Family Life
Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Pascale Peters
‘. . . this book, well-structured and written by highly-qualified contributors, is a valuable contribution to the better understanding of the variables which impact on the interplay between work and private life and successfully provides... -
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Occupational Welfare
Bent Greve
‘With a comprehensive and detailed investigation of occupational welfare, comparing ten countries in Europe, the book presents valuable new data on its development, and questions not only the traditional clustering of welfare states, but...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Work, Leisure and the Environment
Tim Robinson
‘. . . a wonderfully accessible and persuasive contribution to an increasingly urgent and broad literature focusing on overwork, consumerism, environmental disamenity and the work–life balance. . . an excellent scholarly piece of work, d... -
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Public Pensions and Immigration
Tim Krieger
‘The relationship between ageing societies and immigration raises a variety of key social and political questions. Krieger provides an invaluable examination of the issues particularly surrounding their impact on pensions, voting and pub...eBook:Find out more$40.00