Sociology and Social Policy
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Governing Home Care
Viola Burau, Hildegard Theobald, Robert H. Blank
Care of the elderly in their own homes has increasingly come into the focus of contemporary welfare policies and raises important questions about the governance of welfare in general. By taking a comparative and thematic approach, this i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Limits of American Power]()
The Limits of American Power
Douglas Sturkey
Douglas Sturkey’s book presents a detailed and enlightening analysis of the projection of state power in international relations. As a case study, he considers the projection of the United States’s power to attain international objective... -
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![Industrial Relations in the New Europe]()
Industrial Relations in the New Europe
Edited by Peter Leisink, Bram Steijn, Ulke Veersma
This book presents an evidence-based assessment of the impact of EU enlargement on industrial relations and social standards in old and new EU Member States. It combines chapters which give an overview of the process of enlargement/integ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies]()
The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
Edited by Jaap de Koning
This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consid...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Retirement Provision in Scary Markets]()
Retirement Provision in Scary Markets
Edited by Hazel Bateman
The past few decades have witnessed a global move towards private provision for retirement through individual defined contribution pensions at the expense of publicly provided and employer-sponsored defined benefit pensions. As a consequ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ageing and the Labor Market in Japan
Edited by Koichi Hamada, Hiromi Kato
This book is a concerted attempt by economists to investigate and offer remedies for some of the difficulties associated with an ageing labor market.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![劳动力Development Networks in Rural Areas]()
劳动力Development Networks in Rural Areas
Gary Paul Green
Rural areas face numerous challenges in building a high-wage, high-skilled workforce. In response to these obstacles, many regions have established workforce development networks that provide stronger linkages between employers, schools,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond the Regulation Approach
Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum
This book presents a detailed and critical account of the regulation approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples, it identifies the successes and failures...eBook:Find out more$69.56
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![The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment]()
The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment
Edited by Henk A. Becker, Frank Vanclay
This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in Social Impact Assessment (SIA). Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial developm...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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The Diversity of Democracy
Edited by Colin Crouch, Wolfgang Streeck
Revisiting the now classical literature on neo-corporatism in light of current research and theory, the contributors illustrate the enormous influence of the ‘neo-corporatist debate’ on modern political science, political sociology, and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World]()
Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World
Edited by Giuliano Bonoli, Toshimitsu Shinkawa
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pensi...eBook:Find out more$52.76
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Deregulation and its Discontents
Edited by M Ramesh, Michael Howlett
Deregulation and its Discontents examines the different ways in which the issues related to deregulation and reregulation have been addressed in Asia. The role of government in business has gone through distinct, if overlapping, cycles:...eBook:Find out more$40.00
