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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2004-02-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9264105980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis review examines the case of the metropolitan region of Montreal which has undergone one of the most radical institutional reforms in OECD countries.
Author: G. Bruce Doern
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0773588523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad look at attempts to address economic crises by various governments, with insights into how budget decisions are made.
Author: Anne Westhues
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-09-20
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0889205043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe objective of this new edition is the same as that of previous editions: to help students understand social policy from a Canadian perspective, and to stir them to discussion and debate. Part One provides a general overview of social policy and Part Two discusses the policy-making processes, from the international factors that influence them to the ways in which a social worker can become part of this process. Part Three focuses on current social policy issues, and Part Four offers a look to the future. Each chapter of this best-selling book has been thoroughly updated for this new edition with regard to current policy, debated issues, and resources cited. Three new chapters have been added, including an overview of adult mental health policy and a critical look at risk assessment in child welfare. There is also a discussion of current challenges to the Charter of Rights and Canadians increasing use of the justice system to shape social policy. As a result, the reader gains an informed perspective of policy development and evaluation. Although designed primarily for use by social workers, the book will benefit anyone who is involved in the policy-making process.
Author: Mel Hurtig
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
Published: 2011-12-28
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1551992698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned as a passionate Canadian, bestselling author Mel Hurtig has combed through world statistics to see how Canada really measures up — and the results are astonishing, and often shocking. This book is about how Canada has changed, very much for the worse, in the last twenty years. As a result of these profound (often hidden) changes, we are no longer the people we think we are. To take one example, the Canadian media usually leaves us with the impression that Canadians are really heavily taxed. Yes, compared to the U.S.A., the usual point of comparison. No, compared to other countries with our standard of living, other OECD countries, for example; there we come in 23rd on the high-tax scale. The shocks in this book build up, chapter by chapter. How do we rank in the world in voter turnout? Try 109th. Number of physicians per 100,000 population? Try 54th. Our rank in reducing pollution? 126th out of 146 countries. Some of the statistics are internal, comparing Canada then and now. They back up two of the book’s most powerful themes: the failure of Canadian big business to turn record profits into ongoing investment in our country, and (no coincidence) the sellout of our assets at a rate that no other country would allow. This statistics-based book ranges across all areas of our lives — including health, wages, productivity, culture, the media (“the most concentrated in the world”), and much else. Mel Hurtig’s message is that we can’t do anything to fix the direction we’re drifting in unless we recognize it — and recognize The Truth About Canada.
Author: John Biles
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2012-05-17
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1553395123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe international trend towards migration is growing rapidly and becoming increasingly complex. As the first-wave generation of migrants ages, their children and even grandchildren are reaching adulthood having spent their entire lives in the countries their families chose long ago. International Perspectives: Integration and Inclusion is a wide-ranging exploration of this new, global reality. While many countries have been, and remain, resistant to migration, the sheer volume of people moving from one country to another is forcing public policy and perceptions to change. Migrant inclusion and integration, however, remains an issue in many locales. Insightful and timely, this volume brings together contributions from various countries and levels of the migrant experience in order to consider the ways in which states can facilitate the integration and inclusion of newcomers and minorities.
Author: Patricia Cochran
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2017-11-27
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ISBN-13: 0773552324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean when a judge in a court of law uses the phrase “common sense”? Is it a type of evidence or a mode of reasoning? In a world characterized by material and political inequalities, whose common sense should inform the law? Common Sense and Legal Judgment explores this rhetorically powerful phrase, arguing that common sense, when invoked in political and legal discourses without adequate reflection, poses a threat to the quality and legitimacy of legal judgment. Often operating in the service of conservatism, populism, or majoritarianism, common sense can harbour stereotypes, reproduce unjust power relations, and silence marginalized people. Nevertheless, drawing the works of theorists such as Thomas Reid, Antonio Gramsci, and Hannah Arendt into conversation with rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada, Patricia Cochran demonstrates that with careful attention, the democratic, egalitarian, and community-sustaining aspects of common sense can be brought to light. A call for critical self-reflection and the close scrutiny of power relationships and social contexts, this book is a direct response to social justice predicaments and their confounding relationships to law. Creative and interdisciplinary, Common Sense and Legal Judgment reinvigorates feminist and anti-poverty understandings of judgment, knowledge, justice, and accountability.
Author: United Nations
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1849666180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors are big names in the world of Development StudiesNo direct competitionThe only similar series is straight economics whereas our title engages with issues of political economy and has a focus on policy and practice
Author: Ardene Robinson Vollman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780781784269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the Canadian adaptation of the Fifth Edition of the AJN award-winning Community as Partner text. Focusing on public health promotion practices in Canada, this text examines the contemporary public health nurse's role as a hands-on caregiver, community detective, and epidemiologist. Part One provides a Canadian perspective on community nursing practice and legal, ethical, and sociocultural considerations. Part Two presents the Community as Partner Model, and Part Three contains case studies with Canadian examples. This edition places more emphasis on supportive environments for health, the five strategies of the Ottawa Charter, primary health care, and rural communities.
Author: Mary Jo Bane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780674035379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Shows that poverty has different roots and different manifestations, and requires different responses. After setting the context of poverty and place, focuses on three areas of policy response: macroeconomic policy, education policy, and safety nets.
Author: Anisuzzaman (Anis) Chowdhury
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1849664528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy perscriptions. In particular it highlights the World Bank's dollar-a-day measure of poverty and exposes the inadequacies of Bretton Woods-inspired poverty reduction programmes.
