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Comparative Social Policy: Concepts Theories and Methods (Paperback)

Comparative Social Policy provides students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research conveying the fascinating and challenging issues involved in conducting research of this kind. The book examines the theoretical conceptual and... more

International Perspectives on Social Policy Administration : New Perspectives on Health and Social Care (Hardcover)

The relationship between health social care and the teaching of disciplines such as sociology social work and social policy are increasing in many regions worldwide. This book explores the relationship between wider social theory and social welfare... more

Routledge Research in Public Administrat A Complexity Theory for Public Policy Book 01 (Hardcover)

Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have... more

Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Polic: A Complexity Theory for Public Policy (Paperback)

Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have... more

Pre-Owned A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process (Paperback) 0029046106 9780029046104

A Strategy of Decision explores and explain some striking discrepancies between theories of decision-making and the observed practices of people who successfully cope with the complex problem-solving required in matters of public policy. more

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies: Mobilizing Inclusion : Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (Paperback)

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities--and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don t.... more

Social Philosophy and Policy The Right to Privacy: Volume 17 Part 2 Book 17.2 (Paperback)

The essays is this volume--written by prominent philosophers and academic lawyers--examine various aspects of both the right to privacy and the roles that this right plays in moral philosophy legal theory and public policy. Some of the essays discuss... more

Healthy Cities: The Theory Policy and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning (Paperback)

This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe pleasant and green built environment but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social economic and political conditions. It describes... more

Theories of Institutional Design Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Paperback)

Large-scale social and political changes have revolutionized policy-making. Traditionally policy analysis has been state-centered based on the assumption that central government is self-evidently the locus of government. However policy-making is often... more

Routledge Studies in Us Foreign Policy Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States: How US Corporate Elites Created Iraq s Political System (Paperback)

This book locates US elites as members of corporate elite networks and drivers of corporate elite interests and argues that studying the social sources of US power plays an important part in understanding the nature of their decisions in US foreign... more

Theories of Institutional Design Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Hardcover)

Large-scale social and political changes have revolutionized policy-making. Traditionally policy analysis has been state-centered based on the assumption that central government is self-evidently the locus of government. However policy-making is often... more

Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior (Hardcover)

Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling. He may be the only psychiatrist who has specialized in the self-esteem problems of both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. --The New Yorker Policy specialists and academic scholars... more

China Policy China s Authoritarian Path to Development: Is Democratization Possible? (Paperback)

This book examines the various stages of China s development in the economic social and political fields relating theories and models of development to what is actually occurring in China and discussing how China s development is likely to progress... more

Routledge Library Editions: Ethics and Human Reproduction (Rle Feminist Theory) : A Feminist Analysis (Hardcover)

In Ethics and Human Reproduction Christine Overall blends feminist theory and philosophical expertise to provide a coherent analysis of a range of moral questions and social policy issues pertaining to human reproduction and the new reproductive... more

Pre-Owned The New Welfare: Unemployment and Social Security in Europe (Hardcover 9781403911735) by Mario Baldassarri

9781403911735. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 2003 ed. Language: English. Pages: 264. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 264 p. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. The New Welfare brings together a group of leading scholars... more

Culture and Religion in International Relations: The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations (Paperback)

This book is about the global resurgence of culture and religion in international relations and how these social changes are transforming our understanding of International Relation theory and the key policy-related issue areas in world politics. It is... more

International Political Economy Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond (Hardcover)

Blending theory and case studies this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy.... more

Environmental Policy Is Social Policy - Social Policy Is Environmental Policy: Toward Sustainability Policy (Hardcover)

This book argues that social and environmental policy should be synthetically treated as one and the same field that both are but two aspects of the same coin - if sustainability is the goal. Such a paradigm shift is indicated important and timely to... more

Social Policy Review: Social Policy Review 33: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy 2021 (Hardcover)

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has made the annual Social Policy Review even more critical than before. This comprehensive volume addresses critical debates throughout the international social policy field over the past year with a key... more

Pre-Owned Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy: Critical Social Work & Social Policy Paperback

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Pre-Owned Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare Social Policy and Policy Practice Vol. 4 9780471769989 Used

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Understanding Welfare: Social Issues Policy and Practice: Understanding Global Social Policy : Second Edition (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned: The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers (6th Edition) (Paperback 9780205920167 0205920160)

The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers (6th Edition) ISBN-10 0205920160 ISBN-13 9780205920167 Popple Philip R. Leighninger Leslie 6 edition 336 pages Publisher: Pearson Binding: Paperback NOTE:... more

Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy: Crime and Social Policy (Paperback)

Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders.... more

Pre-Owned The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers Hardcover

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Social Policy and Social Programs: A Method for the Practical Public Policy Analyst (Paperback)

Explores the basics of social policy and program analysis such as designing new programs or evaluating and improving existing ones. Social Policy and Social Programs is distinctive in providing specific criteria for judging the effectiveness of social... more

Comparative Development and Policy in As New Life Courses Social Risks and Social Policy in East Asia (Paperback)

Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing... more

Pre-Owned The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social (Hardcover 9780205386635) by Professor Philip R Popple Leslie Leighninger

9780205386635. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 3rd Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 386. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 386 p. Contains: Illustrations. This social welfare policy text written specifically for use within the field of... more

Ageing and the Lifecourse: Social Policy Review 25 : Analysis and Debate in Social Policy 2013 (Hardcover)

The field of social policy has a rich history but policies on the ground are undergoing intensive change. Governments around the world are responding to political economic and financial pressures many of them linked to the global economic crisis.... more

German Social Policy: Origins of the German Welfare State: Social Policy in Germany to 1945 (Hardcover)

This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from... more

Social Policy Review 24 : Analysis and Debate in Social Policy 2012 (Hardcover)

This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary... more

Pre-Owned Social Policy and Social Programs: A Method for the Practical Public Policy Analyst (Paperback) 0205052762 9780205052769

Explores the basics of social policy and program analysis such as designing new programs or evaluating and improving existing ones. Social Policy and Social Programs is distinctive in providing specific criteria for judging the effectiveness of social... more

The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers (Paperback) 0205763715 9780205763719

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Pre-Owned The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers (Paperback) 0205920160 9780205920167

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Pre-Owned The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers (Connecting Core Competencies Series) Paperback

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Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis: Integrating Cognitive and Rational Theories of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Polyheuristic Theory of Decision (Paperback)

There are two dominant approaches to political decision making in general and foreign policy decision making in particular: rational choice and cognitive psychology. The essays here introduce and test the poliheuristic theory of decision making that... more

Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy: Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement (Hardcover)

The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts including policy transfer borrowing and lending travelling diffusion and mobility have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across... more

Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Social Security in the Balkans - Volume 2: An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro (Paperback)

The second of three volumes in this comprehensive study of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs provides protection against social risks reduces social... more