The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey. How Did Social Movements and Elite Competition Create a Welfare State?, Paperback - Erdem Yoruk

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

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...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as poten...

An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

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

The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history - or was it? In this work James Barth...

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

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

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000.

Although there is a consensus in Europe that it is the government's responsibility to ensure the welfare of its citizens, there are calls to roll b...

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

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,...

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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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social p...

Number four in a series of world culture, If You Were Me and Lived in... Turkey, explores cultural differences through a child's understanding. A r...

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?

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 ...

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

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...

DescriptionAs anti-Muslim undercurrents in the United States and other western societies become increasingly entrenched, the phenomenon of Islamoph...