Comparative Social Policy
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
Edited by Olivier De Schutter
This volume offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion includes: the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the... -
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Social Entrepreneurship
Edited by Jill Kickul, David Gras, Sophie Bacq, Mark Griffiths
It is over twenty years since the first research article on social entrepreneurship was published. The literature has reached the critical mass necessary for reflection and singling out of exemplar pieces, and the exponential growth in r... -
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Families and Family Policies
Edited by Chiara Saraceno, Jane Lewis, Arnlaug Leira
‘A genuinely international and hugely valuable collection of papers on one of the most important strands in modern social policy scholarship. It also has a powerful editorial introduction that is likely to become a standard reference poi... -
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Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction
Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Steffen Mau
‘Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction is the single most formidable compendium of welfare state writings that exists. The three volumes span all the main disciplines and the entire range of theoretical and empiric... -
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Social Planning
Edited by Jessie P.H. Poon, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
This volume presents a careful selection of the key contributions to social planning produced by leading scholars in the field. It addresses the many ethical and distributional matters which enter into planning processes. Many of these c... -
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The Economics of Crime
Edited by Isaac Ehrlich, Zhiqiang Liu
This authoritative and comprehensive collection contains the most important published papers and articles on the economics of crime. It presents a variety of different perspectives and will be an essential reference source for both resea... -
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Income Maintenance Policy
Edited by Michael Hill
This authoritative collection, which includes a new introduction surveying the fields, contains key contributions from the comparative literature on the politics of income maintenance policy. In recent years theoretical work has been do... -
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The Foundations of the Welfare State
Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Deborah Mitchell
‘. . . with The Foundations of the Welfare State, the editors have compounded a grand, magisterial collection that will become the standard reference for researchers and teachers.’ – Pieter Vanhuysse, Political Studies ‘At last a refer... -
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Education Policy
Edited by James Marshall, Michael Peters
‘. . . a major piece of work and deserves a wide audience.’ – Justin Dillon, Environmental Education Research ‘As the book presents a rich collection of research in the area, at one place for the convenience of researchers, the scholar... -
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Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen
‘. . . this book is a valuable resource which has collected together an important range of contributions, many of which may not be easy to track down for the individual scholar.’ – Claire Dwyer, Progress in Human Geography ‘. . . this ... -
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Migration and Social Cohesion
Edited by Steven Vertovec
‘The volume under review can be described as a teacher’s goldmine . . . the volume can serve well as a general introduction to a complex field of study.’ – Hans van Amersfoort, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies ‘With its very com... -
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Social Psychology
Edited by Elliot Aronson, Anthony R. Pratkanis
‘The International Library of Critical Writings in Psychology, Social Psychology volumes – a carefully selected set of important contributions, which compares favourably to the excellent SPSSI collections produced in the 1950s and 1960s....