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  • Understanding Global Social Policy

    by Meri Koivusalo, Ross Fergusson, Lutz Leisering, Susan L Robertson, Theo Papaioannou, Carolyn Snell, Roger Dale, Nicola Piper, Sophie Mackinder, Robert O'Brien, Kevin Farnsworth, Jeremy J Schmidt, Rianne Mahon, Eeva Ollila ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Leviathan Undone?

    Towards a Political Economy of Scale

    Edited by Roger Keil, Rianne Mahon ...
    Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists and scholars from a variety ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • After '08

    Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Stephen McBride, Rianne Mahon, Gerard W. Boychuk ...
    The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual?After ’08 examines how global institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and International Labour Organization, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

    Global Governance Challenges

    Edited by Simon Dalby, Susan Horton, Rianne Mahon, Diana Thomaz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.The contributors are experts in global governance issues in a broad variety of fields ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Child Care Policy at the Crossroads

    Gender and Welfare State Restructuring

    Edited by Sonya Michel, Rianne Mahon ...
    Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Feminist Economics and the World Bank

    History, theory and policy

    Edited by Edith Kuiper, Drucilla Barker ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction. As evidenced by the Bank’s 2001 report, Engendering Development: Through Rights, Resource and Voice, an increased attention to gender issues has been an important part of this process.This book brings together a range of responses from feminist economists and ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Understanding Development

    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $115.00 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    by Roger C. Riddell ...
    Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

    Edited by Miriam Smith ...
    Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural ... Read more

    $43.19 USD