Comparative Social Policy

EU Citizenship and Social Rights

Edited by Frans Pennings, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

In the 1990s, the Maastricht Treaty introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. In practice, however, there are substantial barriers to making use of this right, particularly to integration and to accessing the social and welf...

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The Home

Edited by Antonio Argandoña

‘The home is an institution at the base of society which impacts individuals’ outcomes and decisions across the life course, from child developmental outcomes to work and retirement decisions. This book is a collection of contributions e...

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The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing

Ian Bache, Louise Reardon

‘I have never seen a book like this. The authors seem to me to be ahead of their time: they are the first to try to explain the gradual rise and rise of ideas about “wellbeing” in modern society. At the time of writing, nobody knows wher...

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The Evolution of Social Innovation

Edited by Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan, Ola Tjörnbo

At a time when governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. E...

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Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times

Edited by Hans-Uwe Otto, Valerie Egdell, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Roland Atzmüller

‘This more nuanced and contextualised analysis of young people's lives and aspirations, developed through participatory research methodologies that reveal both objective and subjective disadvantage,and myriad strategies for addressing i...

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Technology and the Future of Work

Bent Greve

‘Ongoing technological development brings the promise of higher productivity, increased efficiencies, and convenience, but the new technologies also raise difficult questions according to Bent Greve in this ground-breaking book concernin...

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Social Services Disrupted

Edited by Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen, Margitta Mätzke

‘Social Services Disrupted is an important, informative book that will benefit those interested in changes in welfare state developments throughout Europe over the past 30 years from what preceded it. It is also timely, given recent repo...

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Social Inequality Across the Generations

Edited by Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen

Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compens...

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Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation

Edited by Bent Greve

‘This book is a useful addition to the library of works relating to evaluation. It embraces a range of approaches that can be employed in undertaking evaluations, delivers a breadth of methodologies, depending on context and constituenci...

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Advanced Introduction to Social Policy

Daniel Béland, Rianne Mahon

‘Daniel Béland and Rianne Mahon provide advanced students with an excellent overview of systems of social provision and regulation worldwide, notable for its theoretical sophistication and compelling empirical materials. The authors enga...

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Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality

Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi

‘The strength of this exceptional volume is that readers will be able to find out about one of the major social facts resulting in educational inequalities – and to do this in a way that is not only free of ideological implications but a...

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