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Author: Adalbert Evers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0199754047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking nine European countries as case studies, the contributions to this volume analyze the ways that citizenship has changed in key areas such as social security, labor market policies and social services.
Author: A. Bloch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999-04-30
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0230371248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecently, global and European migration in the post-Cold War world have received much attention. This edited collection is a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the social policies of European welfare states towards refugees and asylum seekers. It also examines the contested boundaries between refugees and asylum seekers and citizenship within European nation states and the European Union.
Author: Hans van Ewijk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1135198470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores shifts in international social policies, looking at how they affect national trends and the context for social work practice. It investigates the responsibilities for social welfare held by the state, the market and civil society, elaborating a concept of citizenship-based social work.
Author: Andrew Calabrese
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780847691081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.
Author: Bob Coles
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-19
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1135367388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn undergraduate text which develops a theoretical framework for youth policy and provides an accessible and comprehensive overview. Establishes a theory of "welfare career" and analyzes the relationship between young people, families and the state.
Author: Peter Dwyer
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2010-06-09
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1847423280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis accessible textbook provides students with the knowledge and background they need to understand the concept of citizenship in the UK, the EU, and global institutions. The book combines an outline of competing perspectives on citizenship with an evaluation and appreciation of the implications that class, gender, ethnicity, disability, and age may have for the social and citizenship status of certain individuals and groups. It offers a clear sense of the history of citizenship and the key theoretical debates that have informed contemporary understandings of the concept. Fully revised and updated, this second edition includes a new chapter on ageing and older citizens, plus new topical sections. The book's easy-to-digest text boxes will aid learning and teaching.
Author: T H (Thomas Humphrey) Marshall
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781014060402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Betsy Sinclair
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-12-10
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0226922839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on one’s political decisions. Drawing upon data from settings as diverse as South Los Angeles and Chicago’s wealthy North Shore, Betsy Sinclair shows that social networks do not merely inform citizen’s behavior, they can—and do—have the power to change it. From the decision to donate money to a campaign or vote for a particular candidate to declaring oneself a Democrat or Republican, basic political acts are surprisingly subject to social pressures. When members of a social network express a particular political opinion or belief, Sinclair shows, others notice and conform, particularly if their conformity is likely to be highly visible. We are not just social animals, but social citizens whose political choices are significantly shaped by peer influence. The Social Citizen has important implications for our concept of democratic participation and will force political scientists to revise their notion of voters as socially isolated decision makers.
Author: Francis G. Castles
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 908
ISBN-13: 019162828X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.
Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0192802534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.
