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Heat, Greed and Human Need
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This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis to this quickly developing field of welfare attitudes research. It provides ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Generational Welfare Contract
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Social Investment and Social Welfare
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This book contributes to the growing literature on social investment by discussing the way social investment ideas have been adopted in different countries and in various academic and professional fields, including social policy, develop...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
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Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Inequality Across the Generations
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Housing Wealth and Welfare
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Both growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. Housing Wealth and Welfare examines, in various contexts, how housing property ownership has become cent...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context
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This is the first book providing a comprehensive and systematic empirical assessment of the post-communist welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of their Western European counterparts. Based on the classical typolog...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
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Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Combating Poverty in Europe
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Discovering methods to combat poverty and social exclusion has now become a major political challenge in Europe. This book offers an original and timely analysis of how actors at the European, national and subnational levels meet this ch...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Integrating Social and Employment Policies in Europe
Edited by Martin Heidenreich, Deborah Rice
A central goal of European activation policies is to integrate social and employment policies into a coherent active inclusion approach that fosters social cohesion and enhances the employment chances of vulnerable groups. This requires ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
