Welfare & Benefit Systems
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Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies
Bristol University PressCurrent price €86.47Original price €93.99Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunis...
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Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social...
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Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms
Martin SchröderCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Var...
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The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It
P. Taylor-GoobyCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....
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The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It
P. Taylor-GoobyCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....
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Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity: Institutional Reforms and Performance
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.95Original price €55.99This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...
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Welfare in an Idle Society?: Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare
Bernd MarinCurrent price €78.84Original price €82.99The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant s...
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Childbearing, Women''s Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Contemporary Europe
Ewa FratczakCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminati...
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Active Ageing in the European Union: Policy Convergence and Divergence
K. HamblinCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Po...
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Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions
SAGE Publications IncCurrent price €128.24Original price €134.99Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions presents current literature detailing families responses to varied transitions ...
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The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats
Eva BertramCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression...
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Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
David M. P. FreundCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50In Colored Property, David M. P. Freund shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in ...
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New Narratives of Disability: Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies
Ian C. HopeCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form i...
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The Islamic Welfare State: Muslim Charity, Human Security, and Government Legitimacy in Pakistan
Christopher CandlandCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between government legitimacy, everyday security, and lived Islam in Pakistana major Muslim-maj...
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Agreements on Social Security between the United States and Iceland, Uruguay, and the Republic of Slovenia
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €147.24Original price €154.99Current price €147.24Original price €154.99Save 5% -
Medicare Advantage: The Alternate Medicare Program
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €124.66Original price €136.99Medicare Advantage (MA) is an alternative way for Medicare beneficiaries to receive covered benefits. Under MA, private health plans are paid a per...
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A Primer & Profile
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...
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Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
John HillsCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is th...
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Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border
University of Notre Dame PressCurrent price €113.39Original price €125.99No international relationship of the United States is as encumbered by history, geography, culture, language, and economics as the one with Mexico....
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Unemployment Insurance & its Antipoverty Effects
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €140.59Original price €147.99This book examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits over the past three recessions. The analysis especially focuses ...
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Promising Employment Approaches & Program Provisions
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €159.29Original price €176.99One of the central features of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is promoting work and job preparation for parents (mo...
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Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths
James MorrisonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Scroungers, spongers, parasites These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vul...
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Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €103.22Original price €110.99Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Rec...
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Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse
Denise A. HinesCurrent price €72.23Original price €83.99Current price €72.23Original price €83.99Save 14%