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  • Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

    International Lessons and Policy Implications

    by Jooha Lee, Hyejin Choi, Jaehyoung Park, Mi Young An, Jieun Lee, Ijin Hong, Niccolo Durazzi, Young Jun Choi, Kim Yun-Young, Sonia Exley0, Sung-Hee Lee1, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit2 ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • The Uses of Social Investment

    Edited by Anton Hemerijck ...
    The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the 21st century, seen through the lens of the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • What Works in Improving Gender Equality

    International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy

    by Kirstein Rummery, Craig McAngus, Alcuin Edwards ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on comparative research from five countries, What Works in Improving Gender Equality provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means and how we can achieve it by adapting best practices in care policies from other countries.Realistic policy solutions are reached by examining the contexts in which childcare and ... Read more

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  • Making Policy Work

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set of tools, but fail to see the costs as well as the benefits – and may not consider the available evidence regarding their effectiveness. This innovative new textbook clearly sets out the main tools of government, and provides an analysis of their ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

    Making Future Citizens

    by Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects.Drawing on a ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education

    International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice

    Edited by Hyun Kyoung Ro, Frank Fernandez, Elizabeth Ramon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in STEM Education
    This timely volume brings together a range of international scholars to analyse cultural, political, and individual factors which contribute to the continued global issue of female underrepresentation in STEM study and careers.Offering a comparative approach to examining gender equity in STEM fields across countries including the UK, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, and ... Read more

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  • AGEING SOCIETIES

    by Sarah Harper ...
    Demographic ageing is a reality - within 25 years half the population of Western Europe will be over 50, one quarter over 65, and the Less Developed Countries will contain one billion elderly people. Ageing Societies examines the myths, challenges and opportunities behind these figures.Ageing Societies explores three areas:§ the growing necessity for extending economic activity into later life ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Social Advantage and Disadvantage

    Edited by Hartley Dean, Lucinda Platt ...
    Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualisation of disadvantage is ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Reframing Global Social Policy

    Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    by Tim Jackson, Jane Jenson, James Midgley, Robin Webster, Anton Hemerijck, Laia Maynou Pujorlas, Guillem López-Casasnovas, Jon Kvist, Marius R. Busemeyer, Giuliano Bonoli, Gunther Schmid, Stephan Klasen, Huck-ju Kwon, Cook Cook ...
    Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This ... Read more

    $44.99 USD