Sociology and Social Policy
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Flexibility and Employment Security in Europe
Edited by Ruud Muffels
This book seeks to gain a better understanding of the paradoxical relationship between the alleged need of European labour markets to become more flexible and the way in which national policies pursue this aim without jeopardising existi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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家庭、老龄化和社会政策
Edited by Chiara Saraceno
This important book offers valuable insights into the way in which social policies and welfare state arrangements interact with family and gender models. It presents the most up-to-date research in the field, based on a variety of nation...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective]()
Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective
Edited by Heikki Ervasti, Torben Fridberg, Mikael Hjerm, Kristen Ringdal
Providing highly rigorous and up-to-date data, with a wide coverage of topics, this book will be of great interest to academics and students in sociology, social policy and political science. It will also appeal to anyone interested in t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries]()
The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Edited by Benjamin Coriat
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it asse...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Working Poor in Europe]()
The Working Poor in Europe
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Henning Lohmann
For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchment and international competition in globalized economies has put increasing pressures on...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Economics of Social Protection]()
The Economics of Social Protection
Lars Söderström
This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dictionary of Health Economics
Anthony J. Culyer
Anthony Culyer has amassed a wealth of information and facts within these pages, and yet has not been reluctant to include comment on issues and ideas. This makes the Dictionary eminently readable and all the more interesting.eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Investigating Welfare State Change
Edited by Jochen Clasen, Nico A. Siegel
With contributions from leading international scholars, this important book presents a comprehensive examination of conventional indicators (such as social spending), available alternatives (including social rights and conditionality), a...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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![The Economics of Health Behaviours]()
The Economics of Health Behaviours
Edited by John Cawley, Donald S. Kenkel
This three-volume set brings together the most important and interesting papers on the economics of health behaviours such as smoking, drinking, drug use, and risky sex. Volume I explores the theoretical foundations; it also includes emp... -
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Civil Society and Governance in Europe
Edited by William A. Maloney, Jan W. van Deth
The contributors to this new book analyse the opportunities for civil society associations to contribute to European integration and decision-making from various perspectives. The research demonstrates that the Europeanization process – ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transparency in a New Global Order
Edited by Christina Garsten, Monica Lindh de Montoya
This book argues that transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favour as an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. Calls for transparency have been directed towards states, markets, corpora...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
这本书探讨了t的影响变化he welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...eBook:Find out more$52.76
