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Virpi Timonen

Social Policy

Concepts like freedom, equality and justice have many uses - and even more misuses. In seeking to manage an increasingly complex world, it is more important than ever to think carefully about the meaning …

Sara Rizvi Jafree

Social Policy for Women in Pakistan

This book analyzes the different policy challenges that Pakistani women face and makes regionally relevant policy recommendations across different areas of private and public life, drawing on secondary da…

Kerry E Ratigan

Local Politics and Social Policy in China

"Due to uneven economic reforms, Chinese provinces have developed distinct approaches to governing that impact social policy priorities and policy implementation. Ratigan shows how coastal provinces tende…

Social Work and Social Policy Transformations in Central and Southeast Europe

This book provides a picture of recent developments in social policy and social work in Central and Southeast Europe, especially trends after the COVID-19 pandemic, which necessitated significant welfare …

Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil

This book examines the emergence of authoritarian populist regimes, analyzing Brazil as a case study. The authors explain how the tactics employed by the Bolsonaro administration to dismantle bureaucracy …

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Juhani Laurinkari

Changing Citizen-Oriented Social Policy in Changing Competitive Environments

The cooperative economy is, because it operates in the middle ground between the state and market capitalism, in addition to its economic aspirations, an effective citizen-oriented means of pre-venting an…

Juhani Laurinkari

Changing Citizen-Oriented Social Policy in Changing Competitive Environments

The cooperative economy is, because it operates in the middle ground between the state and market capitalism, in addition to its economic aspirations, an effective citizen-oriented means of pre-venting an…

Social Prescribing Policy, Research and Practice

This contributed volume uniquely enhances our knowledge and understanding of social prescribing internationally. It fills a gap in the literature by engaging critically with the concept of social prescrib…

Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in Diverse Contexts

The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West. Unlike social policy that started with the post-war idea of a welfare state in the mid-20th …

David Matthews

The Class Struggle and Welfare

A fresh look on the welfare system--with a view beyond the state With The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon--a produc…

Derek Fraser

The Evolution of the British Welfare State

This established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. It is the essential starting point for anyone learning …

Eliades Ochoa

Guajiro

Eliades Ochoa, der kubanische Sänger, Songwriter und Gitarrist, der als eines der Gründungsmitglieder des Buena Vista Social Club bekannt ist, kehrt mit seinem brandneuen Album »Guajiro« zurück. Diese Sam…

Ross Astoria

How to Decarbonize

Recent federal decarbonization policy has opened the range of decarbonization opportunities to new professions, such as city managers, local bankers, and home builders. This book facilitates the implement…

Ross Astoria

How to Decarbonize

Recent federal decarbonization policy has opened the range of decarbonization opportunities to new professions, such as city managers, local bankers, and home builders. This book facilitates the implement…

Konstanze Senge

Corporate Social Responsibility

In dem Buch werden die Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Translation von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) untersucht. Im Kern wird CSR als ein Legitimationsprinzip von Unternehmen in der World Polity gedeu…

Social Work and Simulations

Social Work and Simulations describes how simulated learning experiences can be a powerful modality for social work education. Based on a variety of realistic situations and guided by the creation of a sa…

Reinventing the Family in Uncertain Times

This edited volume looks at the reproduction and transformation of family norms in contemporary times. Set against a context of far-right politics calling for a return to more conservative identity politi…

Karen Edge

Global City School Leaders

Global City School Leaders provides a new and innovative approach to understanding the policy and practice of urban educational leadership. Building on generational, global city, and educational leadershi…