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Advanced Introduction to Public Policy
B. G. Peters
In this updated second edition, internationally renowned scholar B. Guy Peters provides a succinct introduction to public policy and illustrates the design approach to policy problems. Peters demonstrates how decision-makers can make mor... -
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Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe
Mary Daly
‘Across Europe, women’s lives have changed significantly in recent years, men’s much less so. Gender divisions remain strong, interconnected with other forms of inequality. This engaging and wide-ranging book provides a detailed analysis...eBook:Find out more$31.96
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Social Policy After the Financial Crisis
Ian Greener
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Handbook of European Social Policy
Edited by Patricia Kennett, Noemi Lendvai-Bainton
This Handbook comprises of 29 original pieces from key contributors to the field of European social policy. It is intended to capture the ‘state of the art’ in European social policy and to generate and contribute to debates on the the f...eBook:Find out more$52.00
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
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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...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Advanced Introduction to Public Policy
B. Guy Peters
Making effective public policies is a difficult task, but considering policymaking as a problem of design analogous to architecture or engineering can assist in that process. This book outlines three vital components of policy design: un...eBook:Find out more$21.56
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Welfare State, Universalism and Diversity
Edited by Anneli Anttonen, Liisa Häikiö, Kolbeinn Stefánsson
‘Universalism in social policy is politically challenged and normatively contested. This book examines how the principle of universalism can be understood and how it has been put into practice in various national contexts. Universalism i...eBook:Find out more$33.56
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The Welfare State and Life Transitions
Edited by Dominique Anxo, Gerhard Bosch, Jill Rubery
‘The Welfare State and Life Transitions presents a novel assessment of social policy in European countries. This collection of nine country studies neatly melds two distinct lines of social scientific inquiry: comparative welfare state s...eBook:Find out more$39.20
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Investigating Welfare State Change
Edited by Jochen Clasen, Nico A. Siegel
‘The welfare state is a catch-all term which covers a broad range of governmental interventions into social affairs. Over the past decades, social policy scholars have devoted tremendous efforts to analyze those factors that account for ...eBook:Find out more$54.40
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
‘As welfare states grow up, they begin to think more carefully about their future. Jane Lewis is showing them how best to do so. This stellar collection of articles by top European scholars combines creative thinking about the new social...eBook:Find out more$47.20
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Globalization and the Welfare State
Ramesh Mishra
‘This is a short book, with only 152 pages of text, but by comparison with longer and windier texts it is a pleasure to read. Mishra has something to say, and he says it clearly, forcefully and directly . . . one might wish that other wr...
