How to Fix the Welfare State. Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Paperback - Paul (Robert Gordon University) Spicker

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Stian WestlakeIllustration(s): 30 b/w illus. 3 tables.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dim...

This book maps out the contours of the European 'social investment' strategy, both at the ideational level and in terms of the policies implemented...

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Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards...

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state.Publisher: Oxford University P...

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses the different parts of the welfare system and, in particular, cash benefits, the health ser...

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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

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Written by an international team of authors, this ambitious volume offers radical alternatives to staid ways of thinking on the most crucial global...

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