Politics of the Welfare State, Paperback - ***

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

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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 book is necessary reading for political theorists and scholars interested in democracy and the welfare state, providing a new analysis of the r...

Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within ...

Compares welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political...

This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of 'Big Data' for the politics of social protection. It argues that the informa...

Reducere. DescriptionThe politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programsIn 1970s America, politic...

Reducere. Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. G sta Espin...

Examining Germany's image of political drift, the authors focus on current debates regarding the country's welfare state, European monetary policy,...

After Brexit brings together Gamble's most influential writings on British politics and political economy from the last 40 years, reflecting on iss...

Reducere. Malcolm X, describing his childhood experience of "when the welfare people came" and introduced him to the US child protection system, called it "l...

From Margaret Thatcher's first government to austerity politics, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to imprisonment and the social state. With f...

Reducere. First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It ...

Reducere. The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on...

Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they ...

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their lo...

Examining the structure, politics and historic development of taxation in several countries, this book compares three quite different political dem...

This book serves as an introduction to the ongoing political debate about the relationship of capitalism and democracy. In recent years, the ideolo...

This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although ...

Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardThe growth of mass incarceration ...

Reducere. The liberal state is dead, long live the partner stateAcross the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political...

In many rich democracies, access to financial markets is now a prerequisite for fully participating in labor and housing markets and pursuing educa...

Reducere. 2018 Texas State Historical Association's Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Best Book on Texas county and local historyThe notorious Parr family manipulate...

Reducere. Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault in gender studies, social theory, and cultural studies, his work has been relatively neglected in...

Reducere. A devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. In his most explicitly political work to date, Pierr...

A groundbreaking history of Europe's new lefts, from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s In the 1960s, the radical youth of Weste...

DescriptionIn Flawed Capitalism, David Coates draws on his vast experience of economy and society in both the U.S. and the UK to examine the econom...

Reducere. Eugenics -- the study of human racial progress through selective breeding -- frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immi...

Reducere. Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social...