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  • The Welfare Workforce

    Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies

    by Isabel M. Perera ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democracies pursued deinstitutionalization, some failed to provide adequate services, while others overcame challenges of stigma and limited resources and successfully expanded care. Isabel M. Perera examines the role of the “welfare workforce” in providing ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • 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

    $59.19 CAD

  • Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter John, Shaun Bevan, Will Jennings, Bryan D. Jones, Michelle C. Whyman, Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Frédéric Varone, Isabelle Engeli, Pascal Sciarini, Roy Gava, Christian Breunig, Brandon Zicha, Anne Hardy, Jeroen Joly, Tobias Van Assche, Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, Francesco Zucchini, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau, Luz M. Muñoz Marquez, Martial Foucault, Éric Montpetit ...
    What will gain the system's attention? "Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution." — Political Studies ReviewBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political ... Read more

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  • Ending Homelessness in Canada

    The Case for Homelessness Prevention

    by James Hughes ...
    More Canadians than ever lack a home. Almost every town and city now has homeless residents. Municipalities scramble to provide shelters, and local politicians debate whether to take action to end sleeping on vacant land and in parks.Ending Homelessness in Canada gets at the root causes of homelessness and the solutions and practices that can be employed to end it. Contributors involved in working ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Canada

    by Shaun P. Young ...
    Making policy is what governments do, but there are some fascinating and hotly debated issues associated with how government decisions get made in the interests of the people. The concept and practice of evidence-based policy-making insists that properly developed public policy draws on the best available evidence. This book considers how governments in Canada have historically interacted with ... Read more

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  • Pursuing Horizontal Management

    The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

    Edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist ...
    Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. What has worked, why it has worked, and what is scalable and transferable, are key questions for both development practice and research into how peace ... Read more

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  • Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform

    by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Terry J. Crooks, Luis Crouch, Ori Eyal, Eva Forsberg, Martin Gustafsson, Batia P. Horsky, Dan Inbar, Barbara M. Kehm, Stephen T. Kerr, Ulf P. Lundgren, Peter Schrag, Hasan Simsek, Ryo Watanabe, Alison Wolf, Ali Yildirim, Robert W.McMeekin, Adam Nir, Kai-ming Cheng, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew, Ratna Ghosh, Allan Luke ...
    In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by "insiders". This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms in the context of societal and global change. In some countries, reforms are a response to major ... Read more

    $94.69 CAD

  • Sober Reflections

    Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000

    by Norman Giesbrecht, Andree Demers, Evert A. Lindquist ...
    Contributors include Susan Bondy (Toronto), Andrée Demers (Montréal), Madelyn Fournier (consultant, Montreal), Norman Giesbrecht (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH), Lynn Kavanagh (Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Bronwyn MacKenzie (CAMH), Alan Ogborne (consultant), Robin Room (Stockholm), and Gina Stoduto (CAMH). ... Read more

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  • The Consequences of Social Movements

    Edited by Lorenzo Bosi, Marco Giugni, Katrin Uba ...
    Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement institutionalization ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Representing the Advantaged

    How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

    by Daniel M. Butler ...
    Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and that if all citizens participated equally we would achieve political equality. Daniel M. Butler shows that this common view is incorrect. He uses ... Read more

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  • Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level

    Views from Canada

    Edited by Sandra Breux, Jérôme Couture ...
    Series Book 9 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower for municipal elections than it is for other levels of government. Second, the re-election rate of incumbent candidates is higher compared to provincial, territorial, and federal elections. Third, corruption and other scandals have tarnished the image ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD