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Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropic organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Broad Foundation, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a political...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-28
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Could regional integration be a first step toward joining the global market? In a context where liberalizing trade has not produced the expected gains in developing countries and growth in global trade has not led to the expected economic growth, an alternative...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Insight and Innovation in International Development
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Unter dem Begriff «Generation Praktikum» wird die Praxis von Unternehmen verstanden, arbeitsuchende Fach- und Hochschulabsolventen als Praktikanten oder Volontäre einzustellen und sie schlecht oder gar nicht zu bezahlen. Dabei wird in der betrieblichen Praxis nicht...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-27
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The need has never been more crucial for community health providers, programs, and organizations to have access to training in addressing the unique behavioral health challenges facing our veterans, active duty military, and their families. Handbook of Military Social...
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Wiley
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2012-11-27
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The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do existing minimum income protection schemes succeed in adequately protecting citizens, be it whether they are excluded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-19
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Work and Welfare in Europe
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The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability. Though improvements of the living conditions have been regularly principal demands along with civil...
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Springer
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2012-11-15
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Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
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Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders. Provides an...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-11-07
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Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
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The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks.The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a...
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Springer
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2012-11-05
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SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-30
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Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Interculturalism is a new concept for managing community relations in a world defined by globalization and 'superdiversity'. This book argues that as countries become more diverse a new framework of interculturalism is needed to mediate these relationships and that this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-19
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In most countries around the world, women continue to lag behind men in an array of political orientations and activities. Understanding why this is the case and why some countries have been more successful than others at moderating gender gaps in political involvement...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-18
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Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments. Traditional programmes, such as old age pensions have been curtailed throughout the continent, while new functions have...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-27
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Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security, children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex politics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-24
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Non-Governmental Public Action
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Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
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At a time when scientific and technical innovation now requires a multitude of heterogeneous inputs and expertise from the public and private sectors alike, cooperative research centers (CRCs) have emerged as the predominant vehicle for cross-sector collaboration. In...
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Springer
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2012-09-18
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This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-17
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Work and Welfare in Europe
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The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a “(world) risk society.” Risks related to terrorism, climate change, and financial crises, for example, will penetrate all conditions of...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, create a compelling picture of the potential perks and pitfalls of a low carbon future.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-29
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-08-23
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