The End of the Welfare State?
The End of the Welfare State?

Author: Stefan Svallfors

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134621213

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Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further constraints on state welfare in the 21st Century. Gathering together the findings from up-to-date attitude surveys in Europe East and West, the US and Australasia, this revealing book shows that, contrary to the claims of many experts and policy-makers, the welfare state is still highly popular with the citizens of most countries. This evidence will add to controversy in an area of fundamental importance to public policy and to current social science debate.

Poverty
Poverty

Author: Paul Spicker

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1848137540

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This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an extended set of references, and further perspectives from developing countries. A particular effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts.

Educating Australia
Educating Australia

Author: Simon Marginson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-10-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780521598309

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This book provides a history of three decades of Australian education systems, programs and policies. Drawing on economic and sociological data, key texts and political events, it traces the shift from universal public provision to market systems and examines the implications of this change for the labour market and the economy. An important focus of the book is the discussion of the extension of citizenship through education.

The Starting Gate
The Starting Gate

Author: Dalton Conley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-10-08

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780520239555

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Seven per cent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and a half pounds. In this text the authors argue that the social and biological determinants and consequences of low birth weight have not been adequately explored by social scientists or natural/life scientists.

States, Markets, Families
States, Markets, Families

Author: Julia S. O'Connor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-01-28

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521638814

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The 1990s have seen dramatic restructuring of state social provision in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. This has occurred largely because of the rise of market liberalism, which challenges the role of the state. This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an argument about social citizenship in the process. Eminent scholars in the field, Julia O'Connor, Ann Orloff and Sheila Shaver make a landmark contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in this era of economic restructuring and deregulation.

Public Sector Management in Australia
Public Sector Management in Australia

Author: Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh

Publisher: Macmillan Education AU

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780732940737

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Revised and updated second edition of a text first published in 1992. Includes recent empirical research and a new section on management in practice. Addresses issues relating to the design and structure of governmental bodies, the utility and impact of alternative management techniques and public sector ethics and accountability. Includes references and an index. The authors have senior positions at the Centre for Australian Public Sector Management and have published extensively in their field.