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Changing Social Equality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Changing Social Equality

Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe.

Nordic Welfare States in the European Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Nordic Welfare States in the European Context

Comparing social policy and developments since the 1980s in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with those in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, this text covers issues such as income distribution, gender equality and health inequalities.

Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective

For outsiders, the popularity and social sustainability of the extensive scope of Nordic welfare states, such as the strong role of the state and high levels of taxation, remains something of a mystery. Making use of recent international survey data, this important book goes some way towards solving this mystery. It underlines the remarkable success of Nordic welfare institutions which help to maintain not only low rates of poverty and inequality, but high levels of well-being, trust, social capital and political participation. Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh, UK Nordic welfare states have long enjoyed a leadership position in the provision of social welfare. They are now caught up in...

Comparative Political Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Comparative Political Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

This book focuses on the economic changes produced by different political systems and on the social impact of regime transformations. It addresses several key policy issues: How does the policy process operate in various types of political systems? What impact do public policies and policy outcomes wield on transformations in a political system? How does public policy preference in different political systems affect democracy, capitalism, and socialism?

Analyzing Inequality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Analyzing Inequality

An examination of the state of the art in stratification research, looking at data, methods, theory, and new empirical findings in social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology.

Challenging Health Inequalities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Challenging Health Inequalities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-09-05
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This volume provides a timely assessment of government policy and progress in tackling health inequalities in the UK over the decade from 1997.

Nordic Social Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Nordic Social Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-01-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

By focusing on developments in the Nordic welfare states during the past decade, Nordic Social Policy provides new insights into the evolution of welfare state measures and generally assesses the peoples health in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. This comparative work includes chapters on *the changed preconditions of welfare policies *changes in the welfare measures *developments in the welfare of the people *developments in public support for the welfare states.

Assessing the Open Method of Coordination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Assessing the Open Method of Coordination

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national influence of the Open Method of Coordination in Social Inclusion and Social Protection (pensions and health/long-term care), at the European Union level and in ten EU Member States.

Handbook on Migration and Welfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

Handbook on Migration and Welfare

Bringing together prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interrelationship between migration and welfare. Chapters further examine the effects of emigration on sending societies exploring issues such as the impact of remittances, diasporas, and skill deterioration as a result of human capital flight on capacity building and on economic and political development more generally.

Social Epidemiology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 641

Social Epidemiology

Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health. This much-awaited second edition elevates the field again, first by codifying the last decade of research, then by extending it to examine how public policies impact health. The new edition includes: · 11 fully updated chapters, including entries on the links between health and discrimination, income inequality, social networks, and emotion · Four all-new ch...