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Valuing Climate Change
Within only a few years, global warming has emerged from scientific speculation into an environmental threat of worldwide concern. Yet the scientific community remains uncertain as to the long-term trends and effects of climate change, and this uncertainty has been seized on as justification for inaction by an international community reluctant to bear the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Valuing Climate Change presents concrete, economic evidence of the need for action. Fankhauser assesses the costs of a doubling of GHG emissions to be a significant percentage of gross world product; a figure which he then compares to the costs of reducing emissions. In his comparison, h...
Federalism and Social Policy
Federalism and Social Policy focuses on the crucial question: Is a strong and egalitarian welfare state compatible with federalism? In this carefully curated collection, Scott L. Greer, Heather Elliott, and the contributors explore the relationship between decentralization and the welfare state to determine whether or not decentralization has negative consequences for welfare. The contributors examine a variety of federal countries, including Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom, asking four key questions related to decentralization: (1) Are there regional welfare states (such as Scotland, Minnesota, etc.)? (2) How much variation is there in the structures of federal welfare states? (3) Is federalism bad for welfare? (4) Does austerity recentralize or decentralize welfare states? By focusing on money and policy instead of law and constitutional politics, the volume shows that federalism shapes regional governments and policies even when decentralization exists.
Haciendas and Economic Development
Agriculture, commerce, and mining were the engines that drove New Spain, and past historians have treated these economic categories as sociological phenomena as well. For these historians, society in eighteenth-century New Spain was comprised, on the one hand, of creoles, feudalistic land barons who were natives of the New World, and, on the other, of peninsulars, progressive, urban merchants born on the Iberian peninsula. In their view, creole-peninsular resentment ultimately led to the wars for independence that took place in the American hemisphere in the early nineteenth century. Richard B. Lindley’s study of Guadalajara’s wealthy citizens on the eve of independence contradicts this ...
La descentralización del estado
La descentralización consiste en traspasar poder desde los peldaños superiores de una institución a unidades más pequeñas y autónomas. Es un proceso hoy general en la mayoría de estados del bienestar europeos. Este libro se centra sobre todo en la descentralización en España y en sus consecuencias, sin dejar de dar un vistazo a los modelos de otros países.
Reformas de las políticas del bienestar en España
Esta obra busca aportar evidencia empírica y reflexiones fundamentadas para comprender la naturaleza y el alcance del cambio del Estado del Bienestar español en el último cuarto del siglo XX. En el presente volumen se da cuenta de los principales resultados de investigación del proyecto "Nuevos Riesgos Sociales y Trayectorias de las Políticas Sociales" (NURSOPOB). El libro adopta una perspectiva de análisis de políticas públicas (policy analysis) con relación a los programas y actuaciones en el área del bienestar social. Dentro del campo amplio de las ciencias sociales las aportaciones del presente libro se concentran en las tradiciones analíticas de la ciencia política y de la administración, la economía social y política, y la sociología. No se trata tanto de teorizar o caracterizar las transformaciones Estado del Bienestar en España, asunto sobre el que ya existe publicaciones más o menos comprensivas, sino de explicar por qué, y en qué medida, han cambiado las políticas sociales constitutivas del sistema de protección social español.
Unwanted Pregnancies and Public Policy
Unwanted Pregnancies & Public Policy An International Perspective
Nationalism Studies
Explore the complexities of nationalism with Nationalism Studies, a key volume in the Political Science series. This essential read delves into the intricate relationship between nationalism, identity, and global politics, offering valuable insights for professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike. Chapter Highlights: 1. Nationalism Studies: Introduction to the core concepts and importance of nationalism in modern political science. 2. Nationalism: Foundational theories and evolution of nationalism. 3. Nation: The role of nations as political and cultural entities. 4. Women's Studies: Intersection of nationalism and gender, highlighting women's roles in nationalist movements. 5. Cultural I...
Woman: The Prismatic Gender
The book ‘Woman: The Prismatic Gender’ is exclusively written for housewives, homemakers, working women, socialists as well as feminists of the human society. It reflects various types of stages and events that a woman experiences in her life during her childhood, teenage, adulthood, maturity, social, personal, and professional life. The author has highlighted the frequent phases of womanhood, which most of the school girls, female teenagers, college girls, young women, and mature women undergo. The book covers imperative information about women’s life, such as biology and gender, conscription, gender equality, discrimination, domestic violence, dowry system, economic empowerment, equa...
Memory and Amnesia
Using a rich variety of sources, this book explores how the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War influenced the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's death in 1975.
