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This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book argues that a combination of economic downturn, policy choices and personal unpopularity meant that the Right-wing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-21
Collection :
French Politics, Society and Culture
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Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating book, Michael...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-11-20
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Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-20
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This book examines Japan’s changing pacifism and its implications for Japan’s security identity from 1945 to the present. To examine the shift in Japanese pacifism, this research employs the concept of ‘negative pacifism’ (Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-18
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By examining the various policy subfields of European economic integration such as agriculture, trade, banking, economic governance and sustainability this book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of developments that have taken place in the past five years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-14
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Walking through social development’s key theoretical principles and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers: Definitions and an...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-11-13
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Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-08
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Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-11-05
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The study explores an aspect of Finland in World War II that has received little attention.The research examines how Lutheran priests contributed rhetorically to the war effort against the Soviet Union in the Continuation War 1941-1944.The war was emplotted using six...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Die zwischen Sprach- und Politikwissenschaft angesiedelte Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Situation der Kleinsprachen in Europa und mit den soziolinguistischen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Bedingungen ihres Überlebens. Sie nimmt durchgehend zweierlei in den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, argued that we should not be limited to the conceptions of order derived from the work of Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes when studying social order. She maintained that we should not limit ourselves to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-30
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Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, Islam in Europe examines how European Muslims construct notions or identity, agency and belonging, how they negotiate and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-30
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Assessing and managing risk is a daily challenge for social workers. Working with risk can be anxiety provoking and demanding, requiring great skill and high levels of confidence. In these complex situations, social workers have to work hard to get the balance right....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-30
Collection :
Skills for Contemporary Social Work
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Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally. This compelling new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-29
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The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-29
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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-25
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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-24
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What Water is Worth addresses both conventional and non-conventional values of water, discussing the value of water as it relates to conventional microeconomics, water's true utility and government regulation, and new and current practices in water management.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-10-22
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Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-21
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