The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State, Paperback - Yascha Mounk

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be e...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

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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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): Mounk Yascha MounkNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 234 x 31Cover type: P...

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

An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised...

At a time of renewed concern about health, social care, and national unity, the authors reassert the value of the Welfare State for society as a wh...

NEW EDITION FOR THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The classic and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and u...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jennifer (Professor of History, Professor of History, Yale University) KleinIllustration(s): 12 il...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Yascha MounkNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 241 x 35Cover type: Hardback...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book."--Anne-Mar...

Reducere. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha...

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

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

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

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

The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public ...

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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Reducere. At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned ...

Reducere. This influential and compassionate book explores ways of working with adult men and young men who are violent and abusive. It gives practical examp...

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Publisher: Verlag Barbara BudrichNumber of pages: 139Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 209 x 147 x 21Cover type: PaperbackEditor(s): Philipp Sander...

Reducere. Fran ois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity--first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in E...

James Crawford's critical, in-depth review of the responsibility of states for acts contrary to international law also examines issues of dispute s...

States cooperate to stem irregular migration flows, yet migration control agreements often result in widespread violations of the socio-economic ri...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 184 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nils Edling...

Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath ...

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

Reducere. In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus's youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerlan...

Paul Spicker offers an original take on the British welfare state. He outlines the structure of services, the impact of false narratives, the real ...

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Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010,...

Offers an interpretation of Blake's art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working.

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented...

Reducere. After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of...

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DescriptionFrom Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're not having a baby, and nationally recognized expert on the childf...

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domi...

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