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The book provides an up-to-date analytical and empirical treatment of some important interactions between paid and unpaid labour and the social economy.The emphasis on the motivations for paid and unpaid labour, and on how these factors contribute to efficiently...
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Physica
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2009-04-30
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AIEL Series in Labour Economics
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A lively account of fluoridation and its discontents Since its first implementation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, public drinking water fluoridation and its attendant conflicts, controversies, and conspiracy theories serve as an object lesson in American science,...
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Wiley
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2009-04-29
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Economic sanctions are increasingly important instruments of regulatory and foreign policy. This book provides a detailed study of the post-9/11 financial sanctions programmes in the US and Europe, examining the key regulatory and legal issues that confront businesses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-28
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This volume seeks to facilitate such exposure by drawing together into a convenient collection the fine articles on CBA and its application that have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-04-22
Collection :
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Classics
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This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society. From the perspectives of both political theory and policy studies, the chapters explore the implications of deliberative democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them to...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-03-12
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This book uses empirical data and theory to explore the role of faiths as public actors; their contribution to welfare services, how they help build community cohesion, and break it down, and what it means for them and for others to be involved in new modes of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-12
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From the author:'My father doesn't feature much in Running with Scissors. And one of the reasons for this is because he didn't feature much in my life. But there's another reason, too: Our relationship was so complicated, so dark, so confusing and so big, that to tell...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2009-03-05
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Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-25
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Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes. Demonstrates...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-18
Collection :
Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
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Overstretched provides fresh perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis, offering an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policies in a new light. A collection of essays providing new...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
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Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-01-28
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Exploring the increasing involvement of the private sector in social policy, this collection examines the complex relationship between the public and private sectors from an international perspective, focusing on health and pension policies.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-28
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'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on nontraditional topics, including the new institutionalism,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-11-18
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Since the 1970s early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early retirement as a peaceful solution to the economic problems of mass unemployment and industrial restructuring. Today...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-10-16
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Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace:...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-25
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Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace:...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-25
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Community safety is a narrowly defined concept that allows states to ignore arguably more serious threats caused by pro-market policies and the actions of major corporations. This book redresses the idea of what constitutes a social harm and outlines a new policy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-09-24
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The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank.But the answers are much...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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