Improving Public Services

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• The government performance movement has been in full swing for decades around the world. So, why do so many public programs and organizations continue... Lees meer

Age of Dualization Ipe C

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• Poverty, increased inequality, and social exclusion are back on the political agenda, not only as a consequence of the Great Recession of 2008, but al... Lees meer

"Population Problem" in Pacific Asia

Stuart Gietel-Basten

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• Despite the twenty-first century's often being referred to as the Asian Century-indicating hope for economic growth and the rebalancing of the global ... Lees meer

Counting the Poor

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• The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To gauge whether a per... Lees meer

Activation or Workfare? Governance and the Neo-Liberal Convergence

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• The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a shift in how welfare-states deal with those at the bottom of the income ladder. This shift involve... Lees meer

Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition

Besharov

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• The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successfu... Lees meer

United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America

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• Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the Americ... Lees meer

Youth Labor in Transition

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• Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated ... Lees meer

The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I

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• Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response ha... Lees meer

Social Policy and Citizenship

Evers

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• In both Europe and America, the landscape of social policies has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades, especially in endeavors to develop n... Lees meer

University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times

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• Financial sustainability is one of the key challenges confronting Europe's universities today. Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of... Lees meer

Korean State and Social Policy

Stein Ringen, Huck-Ju Kwon, Ilcheong Yi

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• There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and aff... Lees meer

Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction

Cantillion Bea

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• This book examines the link between poverty on the one hand and labour market participation and the distributive capacity of welfare states on the oth... Lees meer

Child Welfare Removals by the State

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• Child Welfare Removals by the State addresses a most important (but little-researched) legal proceeding: when the State intervenes in the private fami... Lees meer

Welfare, Work, and Poverty

Qin Gao

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• Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assis... Lees meer

Adjusting to a World in Motion

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• International migration has reached new heights since the 1960s. Altogether, some 215 million people live in countries other than their countries of b... Lees meer

The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II

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• Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response ha... Lees meer

Child Protection Systems

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• Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of chi... Lees meer

The Korean Welfare State

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• The birth and remarkable expansion of Korean social welfare policy over the last several decades has taken place amidst the socio-economic burdens of ... Lees meer

Privatization in and of Public Education

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• Privatization of education has become a prevalent global trend, representing a significant shift from viewing education as a public good to considerin... Lees meer

United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality

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• Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially. Still, by some measures, income inequality has increased as... Lees meer