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Changing Directions of the British Welfare State
This is a unique and timely survey of the evolving priorities of the British welfare state since its inception in the late 1940s, with an emphasis on how current and future aims and features of welfare provision compare with the ambitions of its original architects. In this book, 15 commentators, including prominent academic experts in the field, and also members of think tanks, charities and campaigning organisations – with a foreword by the BBC’s Huw Edwards, explore themes such as health, education, housing, gender, disability and ethnic diversity. The result of this study is a rich, critical and thought-provoking exploration of the legacy and prospects of the welfare state – worth reading by anyone with an interest in debates on how a modern society should meet the needs of its citizens.
The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice
This book provides important philosophical insights concerning the kind of creatures we are such that we can experience something we understand as well-being, with these insights then being applied to various areas of social policy and welfare practice. The author defends what he calls The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT), addressing ontological questions about the human condition, and how these questions are fundamental to issues concerning what we might know about human well-being and how we should promote it. Yet, surprisingly, these ontological questions are often side-lined in academic, political, and policy and practice based debates about well-being. Addressing these questions, he...
The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature
This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the ...
Universality and Social Policy in Canada
Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the modern welfare state. The book argues that while universality is a core value undergirding certain areas of state intervention—most notably health care and education—the contributory principle of social insurance and the selectivity principle of income assistance are also highly significant precepts in practice.
Embattled Europe
A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe Is the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many observers to argue that the EU’s best days are behind it. Over the past decade, right-wing populists have come to power in Poland, Hungary, and beyond—many of them winning elections using strident anti-EU rhetoric. At the same time, Russia poses a continuing military threat, and the rise of Asia has challenged the EU's economic power. But in Embattled Europe, renowned European historian Konrad Jarausch counters the prevailing pessimistic narrative of European obsolescence...
Contemporary Wales
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The English-Speaking World
Cet ouvrage organisé en quatre volets propose des méthodologies type concours et examens universitaires et aborde l’histoire politique et culturelle du Royaume-Uni, du Commonwealth et des États-Unis. Repères chronologiques et aides visuelles facilitent la mémorisation tandis que des encadrés définitionnels et informatifs mettent en exergue les concepts et exemples utiles lors des examens. Il propose méthode d’apprentissage dynamique composée de QCM et de sujets et corrigés (synthèses, commentaires, dissertations). Un récapitulatif des erreurs les plus courantes en examen donne également les outils nécessaires pour progresser en anglais. Enfin, un lexique thématique donne l’opportunité d’enrichir son vocabulaire tandis qu’une bibliographie sélective servir à approfondir ses connaissances. Il s'adresse aux étudiants du supérieur qui présentent des épreuves de civilisation du monde anglophone.
Sozialpolitik im EU-Mehrebenensystem
Das EU-Mehrebenensystem verhandelt den Einfluss der europäischen Organe auf die einzelstaatliche Souveränität fortlaufend neu. Sozialpolitik gilt dabei traditionell als Domäne der Mitgliedsstaaten. Kann man jedoch an dieser Stelle noch von politischer Autonomie der Nationalstaaten sprechen oder gewinnt die europäische Ebene durch sozial- wie haushaltspolitische, teils auch restriktive Maßnahmen vielmehr fortlaufend an Bedeutung? Jana Windwehr analysiert Europäisierungsprozesse innerhalb der Sozialpolitik im Kontext der Eurokrise anschaulich am Beispiel von fünf Mitgliedsstaaten. Das Buch wird dadurch zu einem unverzichtbaren Beitrag zur Diskussion um nationale sozialpolitische Autonomie im EU-Mehrebenensystem.
Earnings Management
This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?
