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Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in...
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Polity
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2015-11-12
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Social Work in Theory and Practice
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Wei Manske-Wang analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Urbanisierung im Rahmen der Stadtentwicklung und der zentralisierten Energieversorgungsstruktur in chinesischen Megastädten anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung, die auf Daten der vergangenen 35 Jahre...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-11-10
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This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-02
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This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-10-29
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Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance on actors, their relations to each other, and their pathways as well as their footprints of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-22
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Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time. A number of articles have been highly influential, shaping thinking among academic economists and policymakers. This volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-22
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Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time. A number of articles have been highly influential, shaping thinking among academic economists and policymakers. This volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-22
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This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust. Citing, among other things, current breakdowns of trust in prominent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-21
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Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible.
Rivka Weinberg begins with an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Alexander Werner analysiert die Determinanten von regionalen Wachstumsunterschieden in Deutschland, für die verschiedene theoretische Modelle Erklärungsansätze liefern. Der Autor untersucht das regionale Wachstum mehrerer Wirtschaftsindikatoren – BIP und verfügbares...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Gemeinnützige oder Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPO) stehen aktuell vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen. Diese problematisiert der Sammelband, indem er die Perspektive der Fallstudie wählt. So wird anhand einer Vielzahl von Beispielen aufgezeigt, wie NPOs in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-14
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This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-14
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As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-05
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Western welfare states are in a period of significant transition. Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-01
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While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, 'UID will help hundreds of people in India, whose pride...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Die Autoren beschreiben in diesem Essential anhand von Beispielen Schwierigkeiten, die beim Sparen auftreten. Auf Basis der Systemtheorie des Soziologen N. Luhmann, die zu Grundzügen einer Soziologie des Sparens umgeformt wird, entstehen neue Einblicke, weil in Systemen...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-09-26
Collection :
essentials
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The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-22
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Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-18
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Indonesia over the past two decades has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago. The purpose of this book is to...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-11
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Why do some countries construct strong systems of social protection, while others leave workers exposed to market forces? In the past three decades, scholars have developed an extensive literature theorizing how hegemonic social democratic parties working in tandem with...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-09-11
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