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  • What Is the Welfare State For?

    par Paul Spicker ...
    Collections series What Is It For?
    Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after an explosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majority now have national schemes in place for cash assistance.Welfare states matter for people’s lives – but there is little agreement about what one is. What are ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Poverty

    An International Glossary

    Modifié par Paul Spicker, Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón, David Gordon ...
    Collections series International Studies in Poverty Research
    This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Social Policy

    Theory and Practice

    par Paul Spicker ...
    Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion of theory to the understanding of social policy in practice. It aims to provide students and ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • States and Welfare States

    Government for the People

    par Paul Spicker ...
    Most governments in the world – including many that are autocratic or authoritarian – have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and, considering a range of theories and evidence, discusses views about government responsibility for social ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • How to Fix the Welfare State

    Some Ideas for Better Social Services

    par Paul Spicker ...
    The British welfare state is traditionally understood to be comprised of five main services: health, housing, social security, education and the ‘personal social services’, such as social care and child protection.In this book, Paul Spicker offers an original take on the role of the state in relation to these services, along with three other areas where institutional services have been developed: ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Poverty of Nations

    A Relational Perspective

    par Paul Spicker ...
    In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty.Poverty is much more than a lack of resources. It involves a complex set of social relationships, such as economic disadvantage, insecurity or a lack of rights. These relational elements tell us what poverty is – what it consists of, what poor people are experiencing, and what ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Thinking Collectively

    Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good

    par Paul Spicker ...
    What does collectivism mean in social policy? What does thinking collectively imply for policy?In this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker lends a complementary voice to his Reclaiming Individualism, reviewing collectivism as a dimension of political discourse. Breaking down his analysis to examine collectivism through substantive, moral and methodological lenses, he reviews a series of ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Arguments for Welfare

    The Welfare State and Social Policy

    par Paul Spicker ...
    Collections series Rowman & Littlefield International - Policy Impacts
    This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is under attack. The critics argue that welfare states are illegitimate, that things are best left to the market, and that welfare has bad effects on the ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits?

    par Paul Spicker ...
    In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency, that it fails to get people into work, and that the system is riddled with fraud – are ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Social Policy in a Changing Society

    par Maurice Mullard, Paul Spicker ...
    Social Policy in a Changing Society is a critical guide to theories about society, exploring the links between social theory and social policy. It considers a range of interpretations of changes in society, politics and the economy, and assesses their practical implications for social welfare. Social Policy in a Changing Society will be essential reading for undergraduates studying social policy ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Politics of Social Inclusion

    Bridging Knowledge and Policies Towards Social Change

    par Gabriele Koehler, Alberto D Cimadamore, Fadia Kiwan, Pedro Manuel Monreal Gonzalez, Enrique Delamonica, Paul Spicker, Juan Telleria0, Nelson Antequera Duran1, Aldrie Henry-Lee2, Gilbert Siame3, Judith Audin4, Ashok Kumar5, Joop de Wit6, Rachel Kurian7, Deepak Singh8, Annie Namala9 ...
    Collections Livre 9 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    This volume looks at concepts and processes of social exclusion and social inclusion. It traces a number of discourses, all of them routed in a relational power analysis, examining them in the context of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030 with its commitment to “leave no one behind.” The book combines analysis that is fundamentally critical of the rhetoric of social inclusion in ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

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  • The Welfare State

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Garland ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD