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Helen V. Milner is Professor of Political Science and a member of the Institute on War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade (Princeton).
Increasingly scholars of international relations are rallying around the idea that "domestic politics matters." Few, however, have articulated precisely how or why it matters. In this significant book, Helen...
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America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people's dreams (and money). Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society, people are increasingly vying for political advantage to live at the expense of others. Something for Nothing reveals the social and personal threats...
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This book presents a thorough and critical account of the theories and concepts of community health education in an increasingly networked era. It examines basic concepts in education for community health; in-depth understanding of concepts such as learning space design, ICT, pedagogy and curriculum design and types of learning. It discusses professional development and development of teaching and learning centres in community health and implications...
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“Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries” presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development.
The volume is organized around three major issues: parental employment, early childhood education and childcare, and postsecondary...
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Shining a light on the very different experiences of work in the digital age, this book provides a unique contribution to the reform discussion on the consequences of the fourth industrial revolution. Drawing on a wide range of international expertise, contributors examine important policy challenges arising from the transformation of work as a result of the introduction of digital technology at work.
Authors in this volume discuss the effects of...
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Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.
In the past, when people with disabilities and older adults needed help with activities of daily living and navigating their communities, they rarely had any choice about who helped them, when that support was delivered, or what the worker would or would...
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The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why has public policy neglected the development phase of young Americans' lives not only in substantive dollars spent, but also in program design and implementation? Noted childcare and education policy expert William Gormley highlights the portrayal of children's issues in both the mass media and in public policymaking...
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In a world of ageing populations, and in the midst of a global shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) pensions, the onus is increasingly on individuals rather than employers to bear the risks of retirement provision. This book weighs the experiences of eight nations across the Americas, Asia and Europe, who have in common early adoption of DC pensions, but very different experiences of mitigation of that risk by the state, either...
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"Winner of the 2018 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2018 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration" Eric M. Patashnik is the Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Brown University. Alan S. Gerber is the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Conor...
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Millions have entered poverty as a result of the Great Recession's terrible toll of long-term unemployment. Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham examine recent trends in poverty and assess the performance of America's "safety net" programs. They consider likely scenarios for future developments and conclude that the well-being of low-income Americans, particularly the working poor, the near poor, and the new poor, is at substantial risk despite...
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La pandemia por covid-19 ha alterado las dinámicas políticas económicas sociales ambientales y culturales a nivel mundial. Sus consecuencias en distintos órdenes obligan a repensar los mecanismos y escenarios de gobernabilidad y gobernanza en la tercera década del siglo XXI los cuales se rearticulan bajo nuevas formas poniendo en cuestión la acción política sus contenidos y propósitos. La irrupción de la pandemia y los desafíos de la pospandemia...
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I entered Goldenbridge orphanage in my Communion outfit. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing there.' At age seven, Bernadette Fahy was delivered with her three brothers to Goldenbridge Orphanage. She was to stay there until she was sixteen.
Goldenbridge has come to represent some of the worst aspects of childrearing practices in Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s. Seen as the offspring of people who had strayed from social respectability and religious...
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When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived-and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans-50 million, or one-sixth of the country's population-neither...
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Résumé : Les discours qui circulent aujourd'hui sur la pauvreté et les personnes qui la subissent sont bien souvent erronés. Or, les derniers chiffres montrent que la pauvreté touche plus d'un Belge sur cinq. Pour améliorer le vivre ensemble, il s'agit de tenir compte de ces 20 % de la population, de connaître leurs vécus, et d'enrayer les discriminations qu'ils endurent. Car les idées reçues et les « fake news » sont à l'origine de bien...
15) Framework for Integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in the Asian Development Bank's South
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This gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) framework the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) operations in South Asia serves as a guide for effectively fulfilling GESI-related mandates as outlined in ADB's Strategy 2030. Developed through an extensive 2-year consultative process from 2020 to 2022, the GESI framework highlights the various dimensions of exclusion and vulnerability, including their intersections with gender inequality and each another....
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"Winner of the 2009 Best Book Award in Political Sociology, American Sociological Association" "Co-Winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Section on Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association" Brian Steensland is assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University.
Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things...
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Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include The New Constitutional Order and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts (both Princeton). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans...
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"Winner of a 2014 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award" Nina Eliasoph is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Avoiding Politics.
An inside look at how community service organizations really work
Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs....
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"One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016" Kenneth Scheve is professor of political science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers. David Stasavage is Julius Silver Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University. He is the author of States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European...
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Stephen Darwall is John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on the history and the foundations of ethics, and is the author of Impartial Reason, The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740, and Philosophical Ethics. He is also Associate Editor of Ethics.
What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy...
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